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Our Genealogy Helper

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 Simms (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 Simms. 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 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 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.

Simms is located in Cascade 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 Cascade County: Chouteau, Judith Basin, Lewis and Clark, Meagher & Teton.

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

  • Cascade County     (The home county of Simms)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Simms, with the one closest to Simms listed first.
    • Fort Shaw
      (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
    • Sun River
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
    • Vaughn
      (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
    • Cascade
      (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
    • Saint Clair ‑ Historic
      (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
      • Saint Clair is located in Cascade County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saint Clair
    • Ulm
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
    • Sun Prairie
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
      • Sun Prairie is located in Cascade County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sun Prairie
    • Manchester
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
      • Manchester is located in Cascade County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Manchester
    • Mid Canon
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
      • Mid Canon is located in Cascade County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mid Canon
    • Countryside Village
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
      • Countryside Village is located in Cascade County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Countryside Village
    • Great Falls
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
    • Black Eagle
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
  • Lewis and Clark County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Simms, with the one closest to Simms listed first.
    • Gilman
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
      • Gilman is located in Lewis and Clark County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gilman
    • Dearborn Crossing ‑ Historic
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
      • Dearborn Crossing is located in Lewis and Clark County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dearborn Crossing
      • Dearborn Crossing has also been known as:
      • Dearborn City
      • Dearborn
    • Augusta
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
    • Craig
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
  • Teton County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Simms, with the one closest to Simms listed first.
    • Fairfield
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
    • Greenfield
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
      • Greenfield is located in Teton County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greenfield
    • Power
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
    • Choteau
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Dutton
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
    • Collins
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
      • Collins is located in Teton County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Collins

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

Cemeteries Near Simms ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Simms.

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 Simms - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

  • Ft. Shaw Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ft. Shaw Cemetery
    • The Ft. Shaw Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Ft. Shaw Military Cemetery
  • Ft. Shaw Soldiers Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
  • Cascade Colony Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southeast)
  • Sunset Hills Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
  • Sun River Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
  • St. Paul Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for St. Paul Cemetery
    • The St. Paul Cemetery has also been known as:
    • St. Paul Lutheran Church Cemetery
  • St. Peters Mission Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
  • Fair Haven Colony Cemetery
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fair Haven Colony Cemetery
    • The Fair Haven Colony Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Fairhaven Colony Cemetery
  • Milford Colony Cemetery
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
  • Hillside Cemetery
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
  • Vaughn Cemetery
    (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
  • Elk Creek Colony Cemetery
    (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
  • Continue List   (19 more) ...
    • Ulm Cemetery
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
    • Power Community Cemetery
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
    • Beck Cemetery
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)

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.<2>

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

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

  • Sun River
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
  • Saint Peter
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
    • Saint Peter is located in Cascade County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saint Peter
  • Cascade
    (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
  • Saint Clair ‑ Historic
    (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
    • Saint Clair is located in Cascade County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saint Clair
  • Vaughn
    (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
  • Ulm
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
  • Dearborn Crossing ‑ Historic
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
    • Dearborn Crossing is located in Lewis and Clark County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dearborn Crossing
    • Dearborn Crossing has also been known as:
    • Dearborn City
    • Dearborn
  • Augusta
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
  • Mid Canon
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
    • Mid Canon is located in Cascade County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mid Canon
  • Truly
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
    • Truly is located in Cascade County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Truly
  • Choteau
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
  • Craig
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
  • Great Falls
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)

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

Newspapers Published in Simms ...

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 45 newspapers that have been published in the area around Simms.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Simms, there are papers which were published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Simms.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we like to 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 Simms:

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>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 Simms, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<3>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Simms) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.