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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 Old Whitcomb Place (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 Old Whitcomb Place. 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.

Name Variations for Old Whitcomb Place ...

When searching records, keep in mind that names and their spelling can change over time. Our sources include documents like maps, railroad schedules, Travel, Express and Shipping Guides. Many of these documents date from the 1800's and it's common to find spelling differences.

Although we can't give a definitive list, hopefully the following will give you a feel for the variations that might have occurred.

For example, a typical abbreviation for Old Whitcomb Place: Old Whitcomb Pl. (or less commonly used: Old Whitcomb Plc.)

If you have information about these names (such as the reason for the change, date of change, the origin of the name), please Contact Us.

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 southeast 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 south.

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 south 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.

Old Whitcomb Place is located in Phillips 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 Phillips County: Blaine, Fergus, Garfield, Petroleum & Valley.

Below are the counties that are near Old Whitcomb Place. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Old Whitcomb Place:

  • Phillips County     (The home county of Old Whitcomb Place)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Old Whitcomb Place, with the one closest to Old Whitcomb Place listed first.
    • Zortman
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
    • Malta
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Malta have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Malta
      • Malta is located in Phillips County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,843 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Malta <1>
    • Wagner
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wagner
      • Wagner is located in Phillips County
    • Dodson
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Dodson have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dodson
      • Dodson is located in Phillips County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 116 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Dodson <1>
  • Blaine County
    • Lodge Pole
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Lodge Pole have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lodge Pole
      • Lodge Pole is located in Blaine County

For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Old Whitcomb Place, see our County-by-County Page for Old Whitcomb Place.

Newspapers Published in Old Whitcomb Place ...

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 5 newspapers that have been published in the area around Old Whitcomb Place.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Old Whitcomb Place, there are papers which were published within 26 miles [41.8 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Old Whitcomb Place.

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 Old Whitcomb Place:

Cemeteries Near Old Whitcomb Place ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Old Whitcomb Place.

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 Old Whitcomb Place covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Old Whitcomb Place, with the one closest to Old Whitcomb Place listed first.

  • Midale Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Midale Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Midale Cemetery
  • Scandia Lutheran Church Cemetery
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Scandia Lutheran Church Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Scandia Lutheran Church Cemetery
  • Messerly Cemetery
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Messerly Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Messerly Cemetery
  • Kirkaldie Cemetery
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Kirkaldie Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Kirkaldie Cemetery
  • Big Warm Cemetery
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Big Warm Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Big Warm Cemetery
  • Chopwoid Cemetery
    (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Chopwoid Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Chopwoid Cemetery
  • Zortman Cemetery
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Zortman Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Zortman Cemetery
  • Phillips County Cemetery
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Phillips County Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Phillips County Cemetery
  • Malta City Cemetery
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
    • The Malta City Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Malta Cemetery
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Malta City Cemetery

Nearby Communities in 1895 ...

We've built the following list with information that came from an Atlas published by Rand McNally in 1895. The Atlas had details such as the population of the community (which appears to have come from the 1890 Census) and whether there was a post office and/or railroad service available. We also indicate if the community no longer exists and is now historic.<4>

While we didn't find Old Whitcomb Place in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Old Whitcomb Place.

  • Wagner
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wagner
    • Wagner is located in Phillips County

We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Old Whitcomb Place. See our List of 1890's Communities around Old Whitcomb Place.

Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Old Whitcomb Place. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.

The official website for State of Montana: https://mt.gov/

Footnotes ...

<1>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<2>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.
<3>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Old Whitcomb Place) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Old Whitcomb Place. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 47.9853, Longitude: -107.9785       In this case, the coordinates for Old Whitcomb Place have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<4>We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Old Whitcomb Place, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.









 

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