Our Genealogy Helper

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 Winnett (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 Winnett. 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 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.

Winnett is located in Petroleum County and is the County Seat.

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 Petroleum County: Fergus, Garfield, Musselshell & Phillips.

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

• Petroleum County     (The home county of Winnett)
  • The following are listed by their distance from Winnett, with the one closest to Winnett listed first.
  • Teigen
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Teigen
    • Teigen is located in Petroleum County
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Teigen <1>
  • Cat Creek
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cat Creek
    • Cat Creek is located in Petroleum County
• Fergus County
  • Grass Range
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Grass Range have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grass Range
    • Grass Range is located in Fergus County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 105 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Grass Range <1>
• Garfield County
  • Mosby
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mosby
    • Mosby is located in Garfield County
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Mosby <1>

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

Newspapers Published in the Vicinity of Winnett ...

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 2 newspapers that have been published in the area around Winnett.

We have organized these newspapers into two lists:

• A Local Newspaper List - focusing on the papers published in the immediate area of Winnett. There are actually two parts to this list - papers printed in the immediate area of Winnett and those printed in the larger area surrounding Winnett.
• An Extended Newspaper List - a longer list, sorted by paper name and containing those papers published within 21 miles [33.8 km]<3> of Winnett.

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 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 Winnett:

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

• Genealogy information for nearby counties
  • Fergus County
    • Jump to Cyndi's List
    • Jump to Family Search
    • Jump to Genealogy Trails
  • Garfield County
    • Jump to Cyndi's List
    • Jump to Family Search
    • Jump to Genealogy Trails

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

Cemeteries Near Winnett ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Winnett.

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

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

• Winnett Cemetery
  (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Winnett Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Winnett Cemetery
• Cat Creek Cemetery
  (9 miles [14.5 km] to the northeast)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Cat Creek Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Cat Creek Cemetery
• Flatwillow Cemetery
  (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Flatwillow Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Flatwillow Cemetery
• Grass Range Cemetery
  (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Grass Range Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Grass Range Cemetery
• Gilfeather Cemetery
  (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Gilfeather Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Gilfeather Cemetery
• Dengel Cemetery
  (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Dengel Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Dengel Cemetery
• Tyler Cemetery
  (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Tyler Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Tyler Cemetery
• Ayers Ranch Colony Cemetery
  (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Ayers Ranch Colony Cemetery
• Coon Cemetery
  (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Coon Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Coon 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 Winnett in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Winnett.

• Grass Range
  (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Grass Range have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Grass Range
  • Grass Range is located in Fergus County
  • Population from the 2020 Census: 105 people
  • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Grass Range <1>

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

Off-the-Road Links ...

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

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