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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 Yarnell (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 Yarnell. 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.

Yarnell is located in 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 Yarnell. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Yarnell:

  • Lincoln County     (The home county of Yarnell)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Yarnell, with the one closest to Yarnell listed first.
    • Warland ‑ Historic
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the north)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Warland. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<1>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Warland
      • Warland is located in Lincoln County
    • Volcour ‑ Historic
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Volcour. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<1>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Volcour
      • Volcour is located in Lincoln County
    • Ripley ‑ Historic
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ripley
      • Ripley is located in Lincoln County
    • Libby
      (13 miles [20.9 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>
    • Trego
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
    • Fortine
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Stryker
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
    • Happys Inn
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Happys Inn
      • Happys Inn is located in Lincoln County
    • Troy
      (27 miles [43.5 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>
    • Eureka
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
    • Rexford
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)

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

Cemeteries Near Yarnell ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Yarnell.

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

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

  • Libby Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
  • Larchwood Cemetery
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Larchwood Cemetery
    • 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.
  • Fortine - Trego Cemetery
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
  • Troy Cemetery
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Troy Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Troy Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.

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

Newspapers Published in Yarnell ...

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 Yarnell.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Yarnell, there are papers which were published within 27 miles [43.5 km]<5>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Yarnell.

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 Yarnell:

  • Genealogy information for nearby counties

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

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

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

Footnotes ...

<1>An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace.
<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>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<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.
<5>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- Yarnell) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Yarnell. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 48.4708, Longitude: -115.2924       In this case, the coordinates for Yarnell have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).




 

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