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Introduction ...

So far, we found very little information about Gateway. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1>

We've added Gateway to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Gateway, please Contact Us.


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 Gateway (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 Gateway. 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 northeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals were in the next county to the east. 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 east 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.

Although our information shows that the community of Gateway is historic, it would have been located within present day 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 Gateway. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Gateway:

  • Lincoln County     (The home county of Gateway)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Gateway, with the one closest to Gateway listed first.
    • Rexford
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
    • Eureka
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Fortine
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Trego
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
    • Yaak
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Yaak
      • Yaak is located in Lincoln County
    • Stryker
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)

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

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we first turn to 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 Gateway:

  • Genealogy information for nearby counties

Cemeteries Near Gateway ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Gateway.

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

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

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

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

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

Footnotes ...

<1>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 Gateway, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<2>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<3>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.
<4>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.









 

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