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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 Vida (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 Vida. 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 northwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors were in the next county to the west. 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 west 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.

Vida is located in McCone 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 McCone County: Dawson, Garfield, Prairie, Richland, Roosevelt & Valley.

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

  • McCone County     (The home county of Vida)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Vida, with the one closest to Vida listed first.
    • Redwater ‑ Historic
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Redwater
      • Redwater is located in McCone County
    • Circle
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Circle have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Circle
      • Circle is located in McCone County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 598 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Circle <2>
  • Dawson County
    • Richey
      (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
  • Roosevelt County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Vida, with the one closest to Vida listed first.
    • Wolf Point
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
    • Poplar
      (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Poplar have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Poplar
      • Poplar is located in Roosevelt County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 835 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Poplar <2>
    • Deertail Indian Village ‑ Historic
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Deertail Indian Village have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Deertail Indian Village
      • Deertail Indian Village is located in Roosevelt County
  • Valley County
    • Frazer
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Frazer have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Frazer
      • Frazer is located in Valley County
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Frazer <2>

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

Newspapers Published in Vida ...

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 19 newspapers that have been published in the area around Vida.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Vida, there are papers which were published within 29 miles [46.7 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Vida.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we start with the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These professional and volunteer 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 Vida:

Cemeteries Near Vida ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Vida.

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

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

  • Vida Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the east)
  • Holy Eucharist Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
  • Cow Creek Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Cow Creek Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Cow Creek Cemetery
  • Prairie Lawn Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Prairie Lawn Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Prairie Lawn Cemetery
  • Riverside Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
  • Ervine Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
  • Immanuel Lutheran Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Immanuel Lutheran Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Immanuel Lutheran Cemetery
  • Prairie Elk Cemetery
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
    • The Prairie Elk Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Prairie Elk Lutheran Church Cemetery
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Prairie Elk Cemetery
  • Nickwall Cemetery
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Nickwall Cemetery is located 15 miles [24.1 km]<3> to the west of Wolf Point.
    • The Nickwall Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Pleasant View Cemetery
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Nickwall Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #21043 <4>
  • Courchene Cemetery
    (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Courchene Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Courchene Cemetery
  • Grandview Cemetery
    (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Grandview Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Grandview Cemetery
  • Kings Cemetery
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Kings Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Kings Cemetery
  • Continue List   (12 more) ...
    • Chicken Hill Cemetery
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Chicken Hill Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Chicken Hill Cemetery
    • Greenwood Cemetery
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
    • Redwater Cemetery
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)

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

Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Vida. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.

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

Footnotes ...

<1>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.
<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' (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- Vida) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Vida. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 47.8336, Longitude: -105.4914    
<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.




 

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