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Introduction ...

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

We've added Sadie to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Sadie, 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 Sadie (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 Sadie. 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 hospitals 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.

Although our information shows that the community of Sadie is historic, it would have been located within present day Custer 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 Custer County: Carter, Fallon, Garfield, Powder River, Prairie & Rosebud.

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

  • Custer County     (The home county of Sadie)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Sadie, with the one closest to Sadie listed first.
    • Miles City
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Miles City. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<2>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Miles City
      • Miles City is located in Custer County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 8,181 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Miles City <3>
    • Etna ‑ Historic
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Etna have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Etna
      • Etna is located in Custer County
    • Kinsey
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
  • Rosebud County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Sadie, with the one closest to Sadie listed first.
    • Rosebud
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
    • Angela
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
    • Forsyth
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Forsyth. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<2>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Forsyth
      • Forsyth is located in Rosebud County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,752 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Forsyth <3>

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

Cemeteries Near Sadie ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Sadie.

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

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

  • Hathaway Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Hathaway Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Hathaway Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Ft. Keogh Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Ft. Keogh Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Ft. Keogh Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Calvary Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Calvary Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Calvary Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Custer County Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Custer County Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Custer County Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Pine Hills School Cemetery
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Pine Hills School Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Pine Hills School Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Rosebud Cemetery
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Rosebud Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Rosebud Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Pine Crest Cemetery
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Pine Crest Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Pine Crest Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Forsyth Cemetery
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Forsyth Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Forsyth Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.

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.

Sadie itself is historic and was described in the Rand McNally Atlas as having a post office and no railroad service.

These communities are listed based on their distance from Sadie, with the one closest to Sadie listed first.

  • Horton
    (Less than 2 miles to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Horton have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Horton
    • Horton is located in Custer County
  • Hathaway
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Hathaway have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hathaway
    • Hathaway is located in Rosebud County
  • Miles City
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Miles City. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<2>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Miles City
    • Miles City is located in Custer County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 8,181 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Miles City <3>
  • Rosebud
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
  • Etna ‑ Historic
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Etna have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Etna
    • Etna is located in Custer County
  • Albright ‑ Historic
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Albright have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Albright
    • Albright is located in Rosebud County
  • Garland
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Garland have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Garland
    • Garland is located in Custer County
  • Sabra ‑ Historic
    (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Sabra have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sabra
    • Sabra is located in Rosebud County
  • Forsyth
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Forsyth. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<2>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Forsyth
    • Forsyth is located in Rosebud County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,752 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Forsyth <3>

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

Newspapers Published in Sadie ...

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 42 newspapers that have been published in the area around Sadie.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Sadie, 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 Sadie.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we start 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 Sadie:

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 Sadie, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<2>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.
<3>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<4>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.
<5>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Sadie) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Sadie. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 46.3333, Longitude: -106.0936       In this case, the coordinates for Sadie have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).




 

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