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Introduction ...

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

We've added Sheds to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Sheds, 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 Sheds (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 Sheds. 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 southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors and 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.

Although our information shows that the community of Sheds is historic, it would have been located within present day Gallatin County.

To see how the shape of Montana's counties may have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Gallatin County: Fremont (ID), Broadwater, Jefferson, Madison, Meagher, Park, Park (WY) & Teton (WY).

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

  • Gallatin County     (The home county of Sheds)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Sheds, with the one closest to Sheds listed first.
    • Four Corners
      (Less than 2 miles to the east)
      • Four Corners is located in Gallatin County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Four Corners
    • Gallatin Gateway
      (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
    • Story
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Story is located in Gallatin County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Story
    • Catron
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
      • Catron is located in Gallatin County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Catron
    • Belgrade
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
    • Amsterdam - Churchill
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
      • Amsterdam - Churchill is located in Gallatin County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Amsterdam - Churchill
    • Churchill
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
      • Churchill is located in Gallatin County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Churchill
    • Arnold
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
      • Arnold is located in Gallatin County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arnold
    • Bozeman
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
    • Amsterdam
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
    • Wisner Crossing
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
      • Wisner Crossing is located in Gallatin County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wisner Crossing
    • Manhattan
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
  • Broadwater County
    • Copper City
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
      • Copper City is located in Broadwater County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Copper City
  • Madison County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Sheds, with the one closest to Sheds listed first.
    • Red Bluff
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
      • Red Bluff is located in Madison County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Red Bluff
    • Norris
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
    • Big Sky Mountain Village
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
    • Harrison
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
    • McAllister
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
  • Park County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Sheds, with the one closest to Sheds listed first.
    • Hoppers
      (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
      • Hoppers is located in Park County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hoppers
    • Brisbin
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
      • Brisbin is located in Park County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Brisbin
    • Emigrant
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)

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

Cemeteries Near Sheds ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Sheds.

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.

Although we don't have the information ourselves, if you need information about a burial or interment, photos, transcripts, how to contact the cemetery or local authorities, please visit our list of websites on our Genealogy Helper Page for Sheds - one of the links might be able to help.

If not found below, our Cemetery List for Sheds covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.

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

  • Gallatin Gateway Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
  • Hills Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
  • Little Holland Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
  • Sunset Memorial Park
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sunset Memorial Park
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Sunset Memorial Park is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the northwest of Bozeman.
    • The Sunset Memorial Park has also been known as:
    • Gallatin Valley Sunset Memorial Gardens
    • Sunset Memorial Gardens
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2132998 <3>
  • Brondel Catholic Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
  • Holy Rosary Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
  • Churchill Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
  • Sunset Hills Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
  • Walker Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
  • Meadowview Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Meadowview Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Meadowview Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located 2 miles [3.2 km]<4> to the southeast of Manhattan.
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #20989 <3>
  • East Gallatin Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
  • Edens Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
  • Continue List   (25 more) ...
    • Courts Cemetery
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
    • Dry Creek Cemetery
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
    • Springhill Cemetery
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)

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.

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

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

  • Story
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Story is located in Gallatin County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Story
  • Belgrade
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
  • Bozeman
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
  • Manhattan
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
  • Springhill
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
    • Springhill is located in Gallatin County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Springhill
  • Chestnut
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
    • Chestnut is located in Gallatin County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chestnut
  • West End
    (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
    • West End is located in Gallatin County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West End
  • Logan
    (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
    • Logan is located in Gallatin County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Logan
  • Muir
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
    • Muir is located in Park County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Muir
  • Gallop ‑ Historic
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
    • Gallop is located in Gallatin County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gallop
  • Red Bluff
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
    • Red Bluff is located in Madison County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Red Bluff
  • Gallatin ‑ Historic
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Gallatin is located in Gallatin County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gallatin
  • Continue List   (6 more) ...
    • Three Forks
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Hoppers
      (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
      • Hoppers is located in Park County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hoppers
    • Willow Creek
      (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)

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

Newspapers Published in Sheds ...

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 34 newspapers that have been published in the area around Sheds.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Sheds, there are papers which were published within 14 miles [22.5 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Sheds.

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 either 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 Sheds:

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 Sheds, 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 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 '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- Sheds) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.