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Introduction ...

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

We've added Valley to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Valley, 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 Valley (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 Valley. 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.

Although our information shows that the community of Valley is historic, it would have been located within present day Jefferson 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 Jefferson County: Broadwater, Deer Lodge, Gallatin, Lewis and Clark, Madison, Powell & Silver Bow.

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

  • Jefferson County     (The home county of Valley)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Valley, with the one closest to Valley listed first.
    • Whitehall
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
    • Pipestone Hot Springs
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
      • Pipestone Hot Springs is located in Jefferson County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pipestone Hot Springs
    • Pipestone
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
      • Pipestone is located in Jefferson County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pipestone
    • Piedmont
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
      • Piedmont is located in Jefferson County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Piedmont
    • Cardwell
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
    • Boulder
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
    • Elk Park
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
      • Elk Park is located in Jefferson County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elk Park
    • Woodville
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
      • Woodville is located in Jefferson County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Woodville
    • Basin
      (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
    • Elkhorn
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
      • Elkhorn is located in Jefferson County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elkhorn
    • Bernice
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
      • Bernice is located in Jefferson County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bernice
    • Comet ‑ Historic
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
      • Comet is located in Jefferson County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Comet
      • Comet has also been known as:
      • High Ore
  • Broadwater County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Valley, with the one closest to Valley listed first.
    • Crow Creek City ‑ Historic
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
      • Crow Creek City is located in Broadwater County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Crow Creek City
    • Radersburg
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Copper City
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
      • Copper City is located in Broadwater County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Copper City
  • Gallatin County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Valley, with the one closest to Valley listed first.
    • Willow Creek
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
    • Three Forks
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
  • Madison County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Valley, with the one closest to Valley listed first.
    • Jefferson Island
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
      • Jefferson Island is located in Madison County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jefferson Island
    • Silver Star
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
    • Mammoth
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
      • Mammoth is located in Madison County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mammoth
    • Strawberry ‑ Historic
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
      • Strawberry is located in Madison County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Strawberry
    • Harrison
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Pony ‑ Historic
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
  • Silver Bow County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Valley, with the one closest to Valley listed first.
    • Janney
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
      • Janney is located in Silver Bow County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Janney
    • Butte
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
    • North Walkerville ‑ Historic
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
      • North Walkerville is located in Silver Bow County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Walkerville
    • Walkerville
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
    • Williamsburg
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
      • Williamsburg is located in Silver Bow County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Williamsburg
    • Highland City ‑ Historic
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
      • Highland City is located in Silver Bow County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Highland City
    • Moose Town
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
      • Moose Town is located in Silver Bow County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Moose Town
    • Butte - Silver Bow
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
      • Butte - Silver Bow is located in Silver Bow County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Butte - Silver Bow
      • Estimated population in 2019: 34,207 people
    • Ramsay
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)

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

Cemeteries Near Valley ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Valley.

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

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

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

  • Old Whitehall Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
  • Whitehall Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
  • St. John The Evangelist Catholic Church Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
  • Boulder Cemetery
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Boulder Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Boulder Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the northeast of Boulder.
    • The Boulder Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Boulder Cemetery
    • Boulder Valley Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #20781 <4>
  • South Boulder Cemetery
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
  • Fish Creek Cemetery
    (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
  • Elkhorn Cemetery
    (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
  • Mountain View Cemetery
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mountain View Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Mountain View Cemetery is a very large cemetery that is located outside and to the southeast of Butte.
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #21010 <4>
  • Holy Cross Cemetery
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
  • B'nai Israel Cemetery
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for B'nai Israel Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the B'nai Israel Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the south of Butte.
    • The B'nai Israel Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Bnai Israel Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #20750 <4>
  • Mt. Moriah Cemetery
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mt. Moriah Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Mt. Moriah Cemetery is a very large cemetery that is located outside and to the south of Butte.
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #21007 <4>
  • St. Patricks Cemetery
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for St. Patricks Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the St. Patricks Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the south of Butte.
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #21101 <4>
  • Continue List   (12 more) ...

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 Valley in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Valley.

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

  • Pipestone
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
    • Pipestone is located in Jefferson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pipestone
  • Whitehall
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
  • Boulder
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
  • Jefferson Island
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Jefferson Island is located in Madison County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jefferson Island
  • Elk Park
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
    • Elk Park is located in Jefferson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elk Park
  • Trask
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
    • Trask is located in Jefferson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Trask
  • Woodville
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
    • Woodville is located in Jefferson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Woodville
  • Highview
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
    • Highview is located in Silver Bow County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Highview
  • Basin
    (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
  • East Butte
    (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
    • East Butte is located in Silver Bow County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Butte
  • Bernice
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
    • Bernice is located in Jefferson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bernice
  • Elkhorn
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
    • Elkhorn is located in Jefferson County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elkhorn
  • Continue List   (13 more) ...
    • Amazon
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
      • Amazon is located in Jefferson County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Amazon
    • Comet ‑ Historic
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
      • Comet is located in Jefferson County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Comet
      • Comet has also been known as:
      • High Ore
    • Walkerville
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)

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

Newspapers Published in Valley ...

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 81 newspapers that have been published in the area around Valley.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Valley, there are papers which were published within 27 miles [43.5 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Valley.

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 Valley:

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 Valley, 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>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 from Point A (ie- Valley) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<4>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.