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Introduction ...

So far, we found very little information about Ossette. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1>

We've added Ossette to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Ossette, please Contact Us.

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 Ossette (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 Ossette. 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 southwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and doctors were in the next county to the west. 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 west 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.

Although our information shows that the community of Ossette is historic, it would have been located within present day Daniels 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 Daniels County: Roosevelt, Sheridan & Valley.

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

  • Daniels County     (The home county of Ossette)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Ossette, with the one closest to Ossette listed first.
    • Peerless
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
    • Four Buttes
      (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Four Buttes
      • Four Buttes is located in Daniels County
    • Scobey
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northeast)
  • Valley County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Ossette, with the one closest to Ossette listed first.
    • Larslan
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
    • Lustre
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
    • Richland
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
    • Glentana
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Opheim
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Opheim have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Opheim
      • Opheim is located in Valley County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 82 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Opheim <2>
    • Saint Marie
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Saint Marie have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saint Marie
      • Saint Marie is located in Valley County
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Saint Marie <2>

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

Newspapers Published in Ossette ...

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 7 newspapers that have been published in the area around Ossette.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Ossette, there are papers which were published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Ossette.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we begin with the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These professional and volunteer websites 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 Ossette:

Cemeteries Near Ossette ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Ossette.

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 Ossette covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.

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

  • Larslan Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Larslan Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Larslan Cemetery
  • Evangelical Mennonite Brethren Church Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
  • Bethel Lustre Mennonite Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
  • Volt Cemetery
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
  • Bethel Wolf Point Mennonite Cemetery
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
  • Glentana Cemetery
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
  • Fairview Cemetery
    (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Fairview Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Fairview Cemetery
  • Lawndale Cemetery
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Lawndale Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Lawndale Cemetery
  • Scobey Cemetery
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Scobey Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Scobey Cemetery

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

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

Footnotes ...

<1>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 Ossette, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<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 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.
<4>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Ossette) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Ossette. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 48.5917, Longitude: -106.0095       In this case, the coordinates for Ossette have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).




 

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