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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 Santa Rita (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 Santa Rita. 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 northeast 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 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 east 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.

Santa Rita is located in Glacier 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 Glacier County: Flathead, Pondera & Toole.

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

  • Glacier County     (The home county of Santa Rita)
    • Cut Bank
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
  • Pondera County
    • Valier
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Valier have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Valier
      • Valier is located in Pondera County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 474 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Valier <1>
  • Toole County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Santa Rita, with the one closest to Santa Rita listed first.
    • Ethridge
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
    • Kevin
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Kevin have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kevin
      • Kevin is located in Toole County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 136 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Kevin <1>
    • Rim Rock Colony
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rim Rock Colony
      • Rim Rock Colony is located in Toole County
    • Oilmont
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
    • Sunburst
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Sunburst have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sunburst
      • Sunburst is located in Toole County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 328 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Sunburst <1>
    • Shelby
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
    • Sweet Grass
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sweet Grass
      • Sweet Grass is located in Toole County

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

Newspapers Published in Santa Rita ...

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 18 newspapers that have been published in the area around Santa Rita.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Santa Rita, there are papers which were published within 27 miles [43.5 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Santa Rita.

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 Santa Rita:

Cemeteries Near Santa Rita ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Santa Rita.

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

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

  • Crown Hill Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
  • Glacier Colony Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
  • Zenith Colony Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
  • Seville Colony Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
  • Glendale Colony Cemetery
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
  • Rim Rock Colony Cemetery
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
  • Toole County Cemetery
    (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Toole County Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Toole County Cemetery
  • Valley View Cemetery
    (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
  • Holy Family Mission Cemetery
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Holy Family Mission Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Holy Family Mission Cemetery
  • Shelby Cemetery
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Shelby Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Shelby Cemetery
  • Sunburst Cemetery
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Sunburst Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Sunburst Cemetery
  • Sweetgrass Cemetery
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
  • Continue List   (5 more) ...
    • Four Horns Cemetery
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Four Horns Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Four Horns Cemetery
    • Lakeview Cemetery
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Lakeview Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Lakeview Cemetery
    • Robare Cemetery
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Robare Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Robare Cemetery

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

Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Santa Rita. 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 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Santa Rita) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Santa Rita. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 48.6986, Longitude: -112.3202    









 

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This page was last modified/updated: 07 Apr 2024