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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 Poplar (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 Poplar. 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 northwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors were in the next county to the west. 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 west 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.

Poplar is located in Roosevelt 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 Roosevelt County: Daniels, McCone, Richland, Sheridan, Valley & Williams (ND).

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

  • Roosevelt County     (The home county of Poplar)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Poplar, with the one closest to Poplar listed first.
    • Deertail Indian Village ‑ Historic
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Deertail Indian Village have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Deertail Indian Village
      • Deertail Indian Village is located in Roosevelt County
    • Brockton
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Brockton have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brockton
      • Brockton is located in Roosevelt County
      • Estimated population in 2018: 234 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Brockton <2>
    • Wolf Point
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
  • McCone County

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

Cemeteries Near Poplar ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Poplar.

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

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

  • Poplar Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the northeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Poplar Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Poplar Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Boxelder Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Boxelder Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Boxelder Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • St. Anns Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the St. Anns Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the St. Anns Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Nickwall Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Nickwall Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Nickwall Cemetery is located 15 miles [24.1 km]<3> to the west of Wolf Point.
    • The Nickwall Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Pleasant View Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #21043 <4>
  • Chelsa Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Chelsa Cemetery
    • The Chelsa Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Minisdah Presbyterian Church Cemetery
  • Grandview Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Grandview Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Grandview Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Riverview Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
  • Fisher Cemetery
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
  • Riverside Cemetery
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
  • St. Bernards Church Cemetery
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
  • Courchene Cemetery
    (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Courchene Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Courchene Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Lynd Cemetery
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Lynd Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Lynd Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Continue List   (18 more) ...
    • Lynd Cemetery
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Lynd Cemetery
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Lynd Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<5>
    • Zion Cemetery
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Zion Cemetery
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Zion Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Greenwood Cemetery
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)

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

Newspapers Published in the Vicinity of Poplar ...

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 9 newspapers that have been published in the area around Poplar.

We have organized these newspapers into two lists:

  • A Local Newspaper List - focusing on the papers published in the immediate area of Poplar. There are actually two parts to this list - papers printed in the immediate area of Poplar and those printed in the larger area surrounding Poplar.
  • An Extended Newspaper List - a longer list, sorted by paper name and containing those papers published within 20 miles [32.2 km]<3> of Poplar.

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 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 Poplar:

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

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

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>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 drawn from Point A (ie- Poplar) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Poplar. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 48.1105, Longitude: -105.1969       In this case, the coordinates for Poplar have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<4>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.
<5>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.




 

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