Genealogy Projects tagged with Montana on the Geni Family Tree

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  • Silver Bow County, Montana

    Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Silver Bow County, Montana. Official Website The county was founded on February 16, 1881 and named for Silver Bow Creek. In 1977, the city and county governments consolidated to form the single entity of Butte-Silver Bow. Adjacent Counties Deer Lodge County Jefferson County Madison County Beaverhead County Cities, Town...

  • Big Horn County, Montana

    Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Big Horn County, Montana. Official Website The county, like the river and mountain range, were named for the bighorn sheep in the Rocky Mountains. The county was founded in 1913. It is located on the south line of the state. The Bozeman Trail, used by immigrants from 1863-1866 in search of gold, crosses through the southwest corner...

  • Flathead County, Montana

    Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Flathead County, Montana. Flathead County was founded in 1893. It contains much of Flathead Lake, the Flathead Valley, and the Flathead River. These natural treasures, originated by glaciers, are named for the unique geological formation of a broad flat valley surrounded by mountains at the head of a deep glacial lake. Some sources c...

  • Carter County, Montana

    Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Carter County, Montana. Carter County was named for Thomas Henry Carter, the state's first congressman (representative in Congress from the Montana Territory, followed by first representative from the state of Montana to the US House of Representatives). Prior to settlement the land of Carter County was occupied by the Sioux tribe. ...

  • Powder River County, Montana

    Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Powder River County, Montana. Official Website Powder River County's area was probably first entered by Europeans when French trappers worked its streams in the early 1800s. In 1865 the federal government sent soldiers (Powder River Expedition) to the Powder River country to combat Native Americans from the Cheyenne, Lakota Sioux, a...

  • Choteau Cemetery, Choteau, Montana

    This cemetery is located on Cemetery Road, Choteau, Teton County, Montana. Find a Grave Billion Graves Montana Historic Landscapes

  • Park County, Montana

    Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Park County, Montana. Official Website Park County, so named due to its proximity to Yellowstone National Park, was created by the territorial legislature February 23, 1887. Adjacent Counties Gallatin County Meagher County Sweet Grass County Park County, Wyo. Carbon County Stillwater County Cities, Towns & Commu...

  • Montana State University

    Wikipedia =Montana State University (MSU) is a public university located in Bozeman, Montana, United States. It is the state's land-grant university and primary campus in the Montana State University System, which is part of the Montana University System. MSU offers baccalaureate degrees in 51 fields, master's degrees in 41 fields, and doctoral degrees in 18 fields through its nine colleges.Alm...

  • Gallatin County, Montana

    Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Gallatin County, Montana. Official Website During the territorial era, a small patch of land known as "Lost Dakota" existed as a remote exclave of Dakota Territory until it was transferred to Gallatin County, Montana Territory, in 1873. It is named for Albert Gallatin, the United States Treasury Secretary who formulated the Lewis an...

  • Lincoln County, Montana

    Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Lincoln County, Montana. Official Website The county was founded in 1909 and named for President Abraham Lincoln . Adjacent Provinces & Counties Flathead County Province of British Columbia Sanders County Boundary County, Idaho Bonner County, Idaho Cities, Towns & Communities

  • Tobacco Valley Cemetery, Eureka, Montana

    The Tobacco Valley Cemetery is located about 4 miles from Eureka, Lincoln County, Montana. From Eureka take United States Highway 93 North to the intersection with Highway 37. Turn left on Highway 37 and one will find the cemetery approx. 3 miles ahead on the left. If one enter at the cemetery sign one will find a directory on the side of the building to assist in finding a grave location. Th...

  • Blaine County, Montana

    Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Blaine County, Montana. Official Website In 1912 Blaine, Phillips and Hill counties were formed from the area of Chouteau County. The original boundary of Blaine County included a portion of land in the west that is now included in Phillips County. The majority of Fort Belknap Indian Reservation is located in the southeastern part o...

  • Broadwater County, Montana

    Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Broadwater County, Montana. Official Website The county was named for Charles Arthur Broadwater, a noted Montana railroad, real estate, and banking magnate. The Lewis and Clark Expedition traveled through what is now Broadwater County as they traced the Missouri River. Gold was discovered in the Big Belt Mountains in 1864 which bro...

  • Daniels County, Montana

    Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Daniels County, Montana. Daniels County was created in 1920 from portions of Sheridan and Valley Counties. The name comes from Mansfield Daniels, a local rancher. Adjacent Counties & Provinces Province of Saskatchewan Sheridan County Roosevelt County Valley County Cities, Towns & Communities Carbert Flaxville ...

  • Fallon County, Montana

    Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Fallon County, Montana. Official Website The county was created in 1913 and is named for Benjamin O'Fallon, a nephew of Captain William Clark and an Indian agent for the upper Missouri region from 1823 to 1827. Adjacent Counties Custer County Prairie County Carter County Wibaux County Harding County, South Dakota Bo...

  • Garfield County, Montana

    Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Garfield County, Montana. Official Website Garfield County is noteworthy as the site of the discovery and excavation of four of the world's dozen or so major specimens of Tyrannosaurus Rex. Adjacent Counties Custer County Prairie County Rosebud County McCone County Petroleum County Phillips County

  • Granite County, Montana

    Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Granite County, Montana. Official Website The county was founded in 1893, and was named for a mountain which contains the Granite Mountain silver mine. Adjacent Counties Deer Lodge County Ravalli County Powell County Missoula County Towns & Communities Bearmouth Beartown Drummond Garnet Granite Hall ...

  • Jefferson County, Montana

    Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Jefferson County, Montana.= Official Website =The county was created in 1865[4] and named for President Thomas Jefferson. Adjacent Counties * Broadwater County * Lewis and Clark County * Gallatin County * Madison County * Deer Lodge County * Silver Bow County * Powell County

  • Lake County, Montana

    Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Lake County, Montana.= Official Website =The county was formed in 1923. Adjacent Counties * Flathead County * Missoula County * Sanders County Cities, Towns & Communities Allentown | Arlee | Bear Dance | Big Arm | Charlo | Dayton | Elmo | Finley Point | Jette | Kerr | Kicking Horse | Kings Point | Lake Mary Ronan | Lindisfarne | Niara...

  • Liberty County, Montana

    Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Liberty County, Montana.= Official Website =The county was established February 11, 1920 and was named for the sentiment of the inhabitants when the county was formed soon after World War I. Adjacent Provinces & Counties * Chouteau County * Hill County * Pondera County * Toole County * Province of Alberta Towns & Communities *Chester ...

  • Mineral County, Montana

    Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Mineral County, Montana. Official Website Established in 1914, the county was named for its precious minerals. Adjacent Counties Clearwater County, Idaho Shoshone County, Idaho Missoula County Sanders County Towns & Communities Alberton | Borax | Bryson | Cabin City | Cyr | De Borgia | Drexel | East Portal | Forak...

  • Musselshell County, Montana

    Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Musselshell County, Montana.= Official Website =Musselshell County was created in 1911 by Montana Governor Edwin L. Norris. The area was taken from Fergus, from Yellowstone, and Meagher counties. It was named for the Musselshell River which runs southwest–northeast through the county. That river had been thus named in 1805 by the Lewi...

  • Petroleum County, Montana

    Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Petroleum County, Montana. Official Website The area was home to Native American tribes of the Crow, Blackfoot, Nez Perce, and Sioux. In 1868 a trading post was established at the mouth of Musselshell River; it was named "Musselshell". Walter John Winnett, a rancher who had been adopted into the Sioux tribe, started a ranch in Monta...

  • Pondera County, Montana

    Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Pondera County, Montana. Official Website The county was established in 1919. Originally pend d'oreille, French words meaning "ear pendant"; the name was changed Pondera, a form resembling the phonetic spelling, to avoid confusion with the lake and town of that name in Idaho. Adjacent Counties Glacier County Toole County ...

  • Stillwater County, Montana

    Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Stillwater County, Montana. Official Website The county was created in 1913. On December 8, 1884, Capt. William L. Couch led a caravan of Boomers across the Cherokee Outlet to a stream just inside the future Oklahoma Territory. As they settled in dugouts and tents, they called the stream the Still Water and their settlement Stillwat...

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