Our Genealogy Helper
Introduction ...
We have a couple of goals for our Gazetteer:
- That it be a tool which helps us with planning our trips.
- We're trying to shape our Gazetteer as a tool to help us understand the community in which our ancestors lived, the community that was part of their daily lives.
- On our trips, we try to visit those places where our ancestors left their footprints.
By learning about Oilmont (and the surrounding area) during the time that our ancestors lived, we hope to have a better understanding of both their community and its relationship to their lifes. We hope that this tool helps to give us an insight into their world.
As we add data and organize our Gazetteer to help with our family research, we will be adding to this our Genealogical Helper for Oilmont. While we don't have information that is specific to any given person or family, we intend to expand our understanding about where and how people lived.
Neighboring Counties ...
When searching for family records, we have frequently made the mistake of not checking the neighboring counties.
For example, we have great-grandparents who lived in the northeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals were in the next county to the east. Almost all of the nearby churches and cemeteries were in the county to the north.
So when searching for records, we had our best success by looking in neighboring counties instead of the county in which they lived: their home county contained property and probate records; the county to the east contained birth and death records; the county to the north contained their burial records. If we hadn't included the neighboring counties, we would have missed many valuable sources of information.
If you're in a similar situation, we hope that the following information helps.
Oilmont is located in Toole County.
To see how the shape of Montana's counties have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Toole County: Glacier, Liberty & Pondera.
Below are the counties that are near Oilmont. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Oilmont:
- Toole County (The home county of Oilmont)
- The following are listed by their distance from Oilmont, with the one closest to Oilmont listed first.
- Kevin
(5 miles [8 km] to the west)
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Kevin have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kevin
- Kevin is located in Toole County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 136 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Kevin <2>
- Sunburst
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Sunburst have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sunburst
- Sunburst is located in Toole County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 328 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Sunburst <2>
- Rim Rock Colony
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
- Shelby
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
- Ethridge
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
- Sweet Grass
(18 miles [29 km] to the north)
- Galata
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
- Glacier County
- The following are listed by their distance from Oilmont, with the one closest to Oilmont listed first.
- Santa Rita
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
- Cut Bank
(23 miles [37 km] to the west)
- Liberty County
- Whitlash
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Oilmont, see our County-by-County Page for Oilmont.
Cemeteries Near Oilmont ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Oilmont.
This is a new section and is likely to have errors. If you find an error, such as a missing cemetery or we have the wrong name, please let us know. If you know of them, we would also appreciate learning about previous or alternate names.
If you need information about a burial or interment, photos, transcripts, how to contact the cemetery or local authorities, please visit our selection of Genealogy Websites (see below).
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Oilmont covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Oilmont, with the one closest to Oilmont listed first.
- Sunburst Cemetery
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Sunburst Cemetery
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Sunburst Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Toole County Cemetery
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Toole County Cemetery
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Toole County Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Valley View Cemetery
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
- Shelby Cemetery
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Shelby Cemetery
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Shelby Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Rimrock Colony Cemetery
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
- Rim Rock Colony Cemetery
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
- Glacier Colony Cemetery
(18 miles [29 km] to the west)
- Dunkirk Cemetery
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
- Sweetgrass Cemetery
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
- Grandview Cemetery
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
- Crown Hill Cemetery
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
- Gold Butte Cemetery
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Gold Butte Cemetery
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Gold Butte Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Continue List (10 more) ...
- Zenith Colony Cemetery
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
- Devon Cemetery
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
- Trinity Cemetery
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Oilmont. See our List of 1890's Communities around Oilmont.
Newspapers Published in Oilmont ...
An ongoing effort between the Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has resulted in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).
To share their results, the partnership has created the Chronicling America website. The goal of this partnership is to assemble a database about the current and historic newspapers of the United States. This includes a growing collection of scanned images from selected papers. All of it available to the public on their website.
Using information that we've taken from the Chronicling America website, we've identified 19 newspapers that have been published in the area around Oilmont.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Oilmont, there are papers which were published within 28 miles [45.1 km]<5>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Oilmont.
Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...
When we do our genealogical research, we first turn to the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These websites either offer the information directly or else point to where you can find it. Their information is open to everyone.
To help you get started, the following links will take you to the pages that are relevant to Oilmont:
- Websites specific to Montana
- Pages specific to Toole County
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- Glacier County
- Liberty County
- Cemetery Information and Directories for Montana
Footnotes ...
<1> | The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required. |
<2> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |
<3> | The Find-a-Grave website is an excellent research tool with information about a cemetery's location and interments. They also offer a forum for their members which can provide additional help. More information about Find-a-Grave can be found on their website: findagrave.com. |
<4> | An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace. |
<5> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Oilmont) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Oilmont. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 48.7401, Longitude: -111.8407 |