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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 Saint Marie (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 Saint Marie. 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 Saint Marie ...

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 Saint Marie: St. Marie

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.

Saint Marie is located in Valley 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 Valley County: Daniels, Garfield, McCone, Phillips & Roosevelt.

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

  • Valley County     (The home county of Saint Marie)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Saint Marie, with the one closest to Saint Marie listed first.
    • Glasgow
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
    • Vandalia
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
    • Larslan
      (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
    • Nashua
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Nashua have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nashua
      • Nashua is located in Valley County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 286 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Nashua <1>
    • Hinsdale
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
    • Fort Peck
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Fort Peck have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fort Peck
      • Fort Peck is located in Valley County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 237 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Fort Peck <1>
    • Lustre
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
  • McCone County
    • McCone City ‑ Historic
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for McCone City have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McCone City
      • McCone City is located in McCone County

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

Cemeteries Near Saint Marie ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Saint Marie.

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

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

  • Highland Cemetery
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
  • Memorial Gardens
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
  • Nashua Cemetery
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Nashua Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Nashua Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Larslan Cemetery
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Larslan Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Larslan Cemetery is located 32 miles [51.5 km]<4> to the southwest of Glasgow.
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #20962 <3>
  • Galpin Cemetery
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Galpin Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Galpin Cemetery is located 6 miles [9.7 km]<4> to the northeast of Nashua.
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #20890 <3>
  • Bethel Lustre Mennonite Cemetery
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Bethel Lustre Mennonite Cemetery
    • The Bethel Lustre Mennonite Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Lustre Bethel Menonnite Cemetery
  • Hillview Cemetery
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Hillview Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Hillview Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Ft. Peck Cemetery
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Ft. Peck Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Ft. Peck Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Ft. Peck Dam Disaster Memorial
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
  • Evangelical Mennonite Brethren Church Cemetery
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)

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.<5>

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

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

  • Glasgow
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
  • Vandalia
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
  • Nashua
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Nashua have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nashua
    • Nashua is located in Valley County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 286 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Nashua <1>
  • Hinsdale
    (25 miles [40.2 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 Saint Marie. See our List of 1890's Communities around Saint Marie.

Newspapers Published in Saint Marie ...

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 20 newspapers that have been published in the area around Saint Marie.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Saint Marie, there are papers which were published within 27 miles [43.5 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Saint Marie.

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 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 Saint Marie:

Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Saint Marie. 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>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>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Saint Marie) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Saint Marie. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 48.4022, Longitude: -106.5328       In this case, the coordinates for Saint Marie have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>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 Saint Marie, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.




 

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