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Introduction ...

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

We've added Sollid to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Sollid, 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 Sollid (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 Sollid. 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 hospitals and doctors 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 Sollid is historic, it would have been located within present day Pondera 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 Pondera County: Big Horn, Carter, Custer, Rosebud, Campbell (WY), Crook (WY) & Sheridan (WY).

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

  • Pondera County     (The home county of Sollid)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Sollid, with the one closest to Sollid listed first.
    • Ledger
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
    • Brady
      (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
    • Conrad
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Conrad have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Conrad
      • Conrad is located in Pondera County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 2,412 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Conrad <2>
    • Gallup City
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Gallup City have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gallup City
      • Gallup City is located in Pondera County
  • Teton County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Sollid, with the one closest to Sollid listed first.
    • Collins
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Collins
      • Collins is located in Teton County
    • Dutton
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Dutton have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dutton
      • Dutton is located in Teton County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 325 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Dutton <2>
  • Toole County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Sollid, with the one closest to Sollid listed first.
    • Galata
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
    • Shelby
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)

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

Newspapers Published in Sollid ...

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 Sollid.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Sollid, there are papers which were published within 28 miles [45.1 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Sollid.

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 helpful 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 Sollid:

Cemeteries Near Sollid ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Sollid.

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

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

  • Golden West Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the north)
  • Omholt Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Omholt Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Omholt Cemetery
  • St. Olaf Lutheran Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
  • Camrose Colony Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
  • The Knees Cemetery
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
    • The The Knees Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Knees Community Church Cemetery
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the The Knees Cemetery
  • German Baptist Church Cemetery
    (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the German Baptist Church Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the German Baptist Church Cemetery
  • Sample Flat Cemetery
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Sample Flat Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Sample Flat Cemetery
  • Devon Cemetery
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
  • Riverview Colony Cemetery
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
  • Galata Cemetery
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Galata Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Galata Cemetery
  • Twin Hills Colony Cemetery
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
  • Wolfe Cemetery
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
  • Continue List   (12 more) ...
    • Hillside Cemetery
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Hillside Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Hillside Cemetery
    • Lothair Protestant Cemetery
      (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
    • Lothair Catholic Cemetery
      (23 miles [37 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 Sollid in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Sollid.

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

  • Conrad
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Conrad have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Conrad
    • Conrad is located in Pondera County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 2,412 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Conrad <2>
  • Collins
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Collins
    • Collins is located in Teton County

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

The official website for Pondera County: www.ponderacountymontana.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 Sollid, 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' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Sollid) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Sollid. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 48.1769, Longitude: -111.4967       In this case, the coordinates for Sollid 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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