Judith Basin MTGenWeb
Welcomes You!

My name is Laura Gregory Roberts, the Judith Basin County Coordinator and I look forward to working with you
as you search for ancestors. I will be adding information to this site as I find it, so check back often and if
you have Judith Basin County information to share, please contact me so we can get it online.
This Web site is part of the MTGenWeb and the USGenWeb Project and it is dedicated to genealogical research.
Its purpose is to aid researchers who have roots in Judith Basin County, Montana.
If you have any questions,comments, corrections, or would like to add links to these pages, please contact me.
Thank you to Nathan Zipfel, the previous CC for his web set up.

Basics

On-Line Data

Projects

• Copyright Information
• Queries
• County Resources
• Mailing List

• Cemetery Records
• Church Records
• MTSGS Death Index
• WWII Casualties from Judith Basin
• The Family Koval

• Judith Basin County Photos
• MTGenWeb Archives Project
• MT State Historical Society
• MT Genealogical Society
• Judith Basin at Find A Grave

Related Sites

• Family Search from LDS
• MT State Vital Statistics
• Judith Basin Political Graveyard

Judith Basin County Montana
(Including: Benchland, Hobson, Stanford, Utica)

Established: December 10, 1920
Parent County: Cascade, Fergus
County Seat: Stanford

Judith Basin County was created in 1920 from western Fergus County and eastern Cascade County.

Its name comes from the Judith River which Meriwether Lewis named in 1805 for his cousin, Judith Hancock.

Stanford is located in Judith Basin County 57 miles southeast of Great Falls between Geyser and Windham at US 87/Hwy 80 near Ackley Lake State Park. Judith Basin Museum and the Utica Museum are nearby, as well as Ackley Lake State Park, at the edge of the Little Belt Mountains.

It was in this area that cowboy artist Charlie Russell took one of his first jobs in Montana as a night wrangler on a Judith Basin
cattle drive.

The Judith Basin County Museum was opened in 1967 and displays many old time articles, old pictures and history books. There is a collection of over 2000 salt and paper shakers, more than 50,000 buttons, Indian artifacts and many more items. Charles M. Russell, a famous Western artist, lived and painted many of his paintings in this area. A display of some of his work is included in the museum. No admission charge but donations welcome

Judith Basin County is a county located in the state of Montana. As of 2000, the population is 2,329. Its county seat is Stanford