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Daniels County, Montana

Historic newspapers, landmarks, and county history layers for genealogists and local historians.

—newspaper titles

—digitized titles

3historic places

—earliest paper

1920formed

1,661pop. 2020

8cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 3 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1995. Most listings are in or near Scobey.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers

Library of Congress

Newspaper directory data for Montana is not yet loaded on this site. Browse Daniels titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

2 of 3 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

3 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Daniels County Courthouse	Scobey	Building	1995
Daniels, Mansfield A., House	Scobey	Building	1997
LaPierre Barn	Scobey	Building	2005

Source: National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Property links open NRHP nomination files at the National Archives.

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Daniels was formed in 1920 (1920-08-30) from Sheridan, Valley.

DANIELS created by petition and election from SHERIDAN and VALLEY.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Daniels County population from 1930 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1930	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
5,553	4,563	3,946	3,755	2,835	2,017	1,661

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau historical county population (Forstall 1790–1990) and public-domain / CC0 county population series through 2020.

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

8 cemeteries and 3 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 8 of 8 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Fairview Cemetery	48.64308	-105.49777
Flaxville Cemetery	48.8103	-105.17026
Orville Cemetery	48.73656	-105.20272
Pleasant Prairie Cemetery	48.56363	-105.08776
Saint Michaels Cemetery	48.94991	-105.42536
Scobey Cemetery	48.79419	-105.44277
West Fork Cemetery	48.78114	-105.52986
Whitetail Cemetery	48.89669	-105.14832

Historical populated places — 3 of 3

Name	Lat	Lon
Julian	48.94252	-105.35888
Kahle	48.58002	-105.47055
Ossette	48.59169	-106.00946

Source: USGS Geographic Names Information System (public domain). Cemeteries from the 2021 NationalFile archive; historical places from GNIS HistoricalFeatures topical extract.

Historical markers

HMdb link

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