Our Genealogy Helper

Introduction ...

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

We've added Ural to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Ural, please Contact Us.

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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 Ural (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 Ural. 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 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.

Although our information shows that the community of Ural is historic, it would have been located within present day Lincoln 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 Lincoln County: Bonner (ID), Boundary (ID), Flathead & Sanders.

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

• Lincoln County     (The home county of Ural)
  • The following are listed by their distance from Ural, with the one closest to Ural listed first.
  • Volcour ‑ Historic
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Volcour have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Volcour
    • Volcour is located in Lincoln County
  • Warland ‑ Historic
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Warland have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Warland
    • Warland is located in Lincoln County
  • Trego
    (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Trego
    • Trego is located in Lincoln County
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Trego <3>
  • Ripley ‑ Historic
    (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ripley
    • Ripley is located in Lincoln County
  • Fortine
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fortine
    • Fortine is located in Lincoln County
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Fortine <3>
  • Rexford
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rexford
    • Rexford is located in Lincoln County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 161 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Rexford <3>
  • Eureka
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eureka
    • Eureka is located in Lincoln County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,445 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Eureka <3>
  • Libby
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Libby have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Libby
    • Libby is located in Lincoln County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 2,845 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Libby <3>
  • Stryker
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Stryker
    • Stryker is located in Lincoln County
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Stryker <3>
  • Yaak
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yaak
    • Yaak is located in Lincoln County
  • Sylvanite
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sylvanite
    • Sylvanite is located in Lincoln County
  • Troy
    (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Troy
    • Troy is located in Lincoln County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 982 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Troy <3>

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

Newspapers Published in Ural ...

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 15 newspapers that have been published in the area around Ural.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Ural, 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 Ural.

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 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 Ural:

• 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 Lincoln County
  • Jump to Cyndi's List
  • Jump to Family Search
  • Jump to Genealogy Trails

• Genealogy information for nearby counties

• Cemetery Information and Directories for Montana
  • Cemetery Junction: Cemeteries of Montana
  • Cyndi's List
  • Cemeteries of Montana
  • Cemeteries of Lincoln County
  • FamilySearch.org: Cemeteries of Montana
  • Find-A-Grave: Home Page
  • Interment.net
  • Cemeteries of Montana

Cemeteries Near Ural ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Ural.

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

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

• Fortine - Trego Cemetery
  (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
  • The Fortine - Trego Cemetery has also been known as:
  • Fortine Cemetery
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Fortine - Trego Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #1189766 <5>
• Libby Cemetery
  (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Libby Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #173881 <5>
• Tobacco Valley Cemetery
  (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
  • The Tobacco Valley Cemetery has also been known as:
  • Eureka Cemetery
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Tobacco Valley Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2168244 <5>
• Boyd Mill Cemetery
  (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Boyd Mill Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Boyd Mill Cemetery
• Roosville Cemetery
  (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Roosville Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2522165 <5>
• Larchwood Cemetery
  (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Larchwood Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Larchwood Cemetery

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

Off-the-Road Links ...

The official website for Lincoln County: www.lincolncountymt.us/

The official website for State of Montana: https://mt.gov/