Our Genealogy Helper
Introduction ...
So far, we found very little information about Sour Dough Flat. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1>
We've added Sour Dough Flat to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Sour Dough Flat, 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 Sour Dough Flat (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 Sour Dough Flat. 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.
Name Variations for Sour Dough Flat ...
When searching records, keep in mind that names and their spelling can change over time. Our sources include documents like maps, railroad schedules, Travel, Express and Shipping Guides. Many of these documents date from the 1800's and it's common to find spelling differences.
Although we can't give a definitive list, hopefully the following will give you a feel for the variations that might have occurred.
For example, a typical abbreviation for Sour Dough Flat: Sour Dough Flt.
If you have information about these names (such as the reason for the change, date of change, the origin of the name), please Contact Us.
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 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.
Although our information shows that the community of Sour Dough Flat is historic, it would have been located within present day Blaine 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 Blaine County: Chouteau, Fergus, Hill & Phillips.
Below are the counties that are near Sour Dough Flat. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Sour Dough Flat:
- Blaine County (The home county of Sour Dough Flat)
- Lloyd
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lloyd
- Lloyd is located in Blaine County
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Lloyd <2>
- Lloyd
- Chouteau County
- Fergus County
- Winifred
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Winifred have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Winifred
- Winifred is located in Fergus County
- Population from the 2020 Census: 196 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Winifred <2>
- Winifred
- Hill County
- The following are listed by their distance from Sour Dough Flat, with the one closest to Sour Dough Flat listed first.
- Parker School
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Parker School have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Parker School
- Parker School is located in Hill County
- Saint Pierre
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saint Pierre
- Saint Pierre is located in Hill County
- Azure
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Azure
- Azure is located in Hill County
- Sangrey
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Sour Dough Flat, see our County-by-County Page for Sour Dough Flat.
Newspapers Published in Sour Dough Flat ...
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 1 newspapers that have been published in the area around Sour Dough Flat.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Sour Dough Flat, there are papers which were published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Sour Dough Flat.
Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...
When we do our genealogical research, we first turn to 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 Sour Dough Flat:
- Websites specific to Montana
- Jump to Cyndi's List
- Jump to Family Search
- Jump to Genealogy Trails
- Website for the Montana Historical Society
- Pages specific to Blaine County
- Jump to Cyndi's List
- Jump to Family Search
- Jump to Genealogy Trails
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- Chouteau County
- Jump to Cyndi's List
- Jump to Family Search
- Jump to Genealogy Trails
- Fergus County
- Jump to Cyndi's List
- Jump to Family Search
- Jump to Genealogy Trails
- Hill County
- Jump to Cyndi's List
- Jump to Family Search
- Jump to Genealogy Trails
- Chouteau County
- Cemetery Information and Directories for Montana
- Cemetery Junction: Cemeteries of Montana
- Cyndi's List
- Cemeteries of Montana
- Cemeteries of Blaine County
- FamilySearch.org: Cemeteries of Montana
- Find-A-Grave: Home Page
- Interment.net
- Cemeteries of Montana
- Cemeteries of Blaine County
Cemeteries Near Sour Dough Flat ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Sour Dough Flat.
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 Sour Dough Flat covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Sour Dough Flat, with the one closest to Sour Dough Flat listed first.
- Alice Nash Memorial Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Alice Nash Memorial Cemetery
- Hungry Hollow Cemetery
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Hungry Hollow Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Hungry Hollow Cemetery
- Cleveland Cemetery
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Cleveland Cemetery
- Rocky Boy Grave
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Rocky Boy Grave have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Rocky Boy Grave
- McConnell Cemetery
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the McConnell Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the McConnell Cemetery
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 Sour Dough Flat in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Sour Dough Flat.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Sour Dough Flat, with the one closest to Sour Dough Flat listed first.
- Warrick
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest) - Judith ‑ Historic
(23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Sour Dough Flat. See our List of 1890's Communities around Sour Dough Flat.
Off-the-Road Links ...
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 Sour Dough Flat, 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 things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Sour Dough Flat) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Sour Dough Flat. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 47.9994, Longitude: -109.3752 In this case, the coordinates for Sour Dough Flat have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). |