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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 Windham (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 Windham. 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 and hospitals 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.

Windham is located in Judith Basin 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 Judith Basin County: Cascade, Chouteau, Fergus, Meagher & Wheatland.

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

  • Judith Basin County     (The home county of Windham)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Windham, with the one closest to Windham listed first.
    • Stanford
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Moccasin
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
    • Hobson
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Hobson have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hobson
      • Hobson is located in Judith Basin County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 229 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Hobson <1>
    • Sapphire Village
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Sapphire Village have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sapphire Village
      • Sapphire Village is located in Judith Basin County
    • Arrow Creek
      (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arrow Creek
      • Arrow Creek is located in Judith Basin County
    • Geyser
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Raynesford
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
  • Cascade County
    • Neihart
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Neihart have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Neihart
      • Neihart is located in Cascade County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 48 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Neihart <1>
  • Fergus County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Windham, with the one closest to Windham listed first.
    • Coffee Creek
      (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
    • Denton
      (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
    • Moore
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Moore have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Moore
      • Moore is located in Fergus County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 182 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Moore <1>
    • Danvers
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Danvers
      • Danvers is located in Fergus County
    • Straw
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Straw have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Straw
      • Straw is located in Fergus County
    • Buffalo
      (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
    • Glengarry
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Glengarry
      • Glengarry is located in Fergus County
    • Garneill
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)

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

Newspapers Published in Windham ...

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 21 newspapers that have been published in the area around Windham.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Windham, there are papers which were published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Windham.

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 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 Windham:

Cemeteries Near Windham ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Windham.

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

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

  • Lehigh Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Lehigh Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Lehigh Cemetery
  • Benchland Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Benchland Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Benchland Cemetery
  • Larson Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Larson Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Larson Cemetery
  • Stanford Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Stanford Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Stanford Cemetery
  • Utica Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Utica Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Utica Cemetery
  • Philbrook Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Philbrook Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Philbrook Cemetery
  • Moccasin Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Moccasin Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Moccasin Cemetery
  • Surprise Creek Colony Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
  • Strouf Pioneer Cemetery
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Strouf Pioneer Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Strouf Pioneer Cemetery
  • Geer Cemetery
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Geer Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Geer Cemetery
  • Hillcrest Cemetery
    (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
  • Coffee Creek Cemetery
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Coffee Creek Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Coffee Creek Cemetery
  • Continue List   (14 more) ...
    • Lone Tree Park Cemetery
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Lone Tree Park Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Lone Tree Park Cemetery
    • Buffalo - Straw Cemetery
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
      • To give a relative sense of its location, the Buffalo - Straw Cemetery is located outside and to the west of Straw.
      • The Buffalo - Straw Cemetery has also been known as:
      • Buffalo Cemetery
      • Straw Cemetery
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Buffalo - Straw Cemetery
    • Geyser Cemetery
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Geyser Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Geyser 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.<4>

While we didn't find Windham in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Windham.

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

  • Stanford
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
  • Denton
    (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
  • Buffalo
    (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
  • Neihart
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Neihart have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Neihart
    • Neihart is located in Cascade County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 48 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Neihart <1>
  • Cottonwood
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Cottonwood have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cottonwood
    • Cottonwood is located in Fergus County

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

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

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

Footnotes ...

<1>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<2>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.
<3>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Windham) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Windham. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 47.0796, Longitude: -110.1383    
<4>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 Windham, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.




 

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