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Introduction ...

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

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

Although our information shows that the community of Sears is historic, it would have been located within present day Richland 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 Richland County: Dawson, McCone, Roosevelt, Wibaux & McKenzie (ND).

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

  • Richland County     (The home county of Sears)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Sears, with the one closest to Sears listed first.
    • Crane
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
    • Piche
      (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Piche
      • Piche is located in Richland County
    • Knife River
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Knife River have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Knife River
      • Knife River is located in Richland County
    • Savage
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
    • Sidney
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
    • Fox Lake
      (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fox Lake
      • Fox Lake is located in Richland County
    • Lambert
      (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
    • Fairview
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Fairview have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fairview
      • Fairview is located in Richland County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 882 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Fairview <2>
    • Enid
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Enid
      • Enid is located in Richland County
  • Dawson County
  • McKenzie County (ND)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Sears, with the one closest to Sears listed first.
    • Harding
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Harding
      • Harding is located in McKenzie County (ND)
    • Cartwright
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
    • Dore
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dore
      • Dore is located in McKenzie County (ND)

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

Newspapers Published in Sears ...

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 Sears.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Sears, there are papers which were published within 18 miles [29 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Sears.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we first visit 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 Sears:

Cemeteries Near Sears ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Sears.

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

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

  • Crane Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
  • Riverview Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
  • Newlon Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
  • Richland Memorial Park
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
  • Pioneer Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Pioneer Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Pioneer Cemetery
  • Sidney Cemetery
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
  • Brorson Cemetery
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
  • Community Memorial Cemetery
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
  • St. Theresa Cemetery
    (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
  • Immanuel Lutheran Cemetery
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Immanuel Lutheran Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Immanuel Lutheran Cemetery
  • Sunny Side Cemetery
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Sunny Side Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Sunny Side Cemetery
  • Grand View Cemetery
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Grand View Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Grand View Cemetery
  • Continue List   (15 more) ...
    • Bethel Cemetery
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Bethel Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Bethel Cemetery
    • Klempel Cemetery
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Klempel Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Klempel Cemetery
    • Been Cemetery
      (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Been Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Been Cemetery

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

The official website for Richland County: www.richland.org/

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 Sears, 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' (or 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- Sears) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Sears. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 47.5425, Longitude: -104.2924       In this case, the coordinates for Sears have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>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.




 

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