The Słownik Geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i Innych Krajów Słowiańskich (Geographical Dictionary of the Kingdom of Poland and other Slavonic Countries) includes one entry for the Polish village of Czarnostowo, currently three villages in Maków Powiat called Czarnostów and Czarnostów Polesie, and Kolonia Czarnostów Polesie.
Czarnostowo and Surrounding Area – 1910
Third Military Mapping Survey of Austria-Hungary (ELTE Faculty of Informatics,
Institute of Cartography and Geoinformatics); digital images, Lazarus ELTE
(http://lazarus.elte.hu/hun/digkonyv/topo/200e/39-53.jpg: accessed 20 December 2025)
Source: Sulmierski, Filip, Bronisław Chlebowski, and Władysław Walewski, eds., Słownik Geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i Innych Krajów Słowiańskich (Geographical Dictionary of the Kingdom of Poland and other Slavonic Countries) – Warsaw 1880, Volume I, page 760.
Click on the link for a PDF copy of the the Słownik Geograficzny entry for Czarnostowo. Translated from the Polish, the entry reads:
Czarnostowo, a village and manor on the Sona River, Maków powiat, Karniewo gmina, Szwelice parish. In 1827, there were 28 houses and 209 inhabitants. The Czarnostowo estate consists of the Czarnostowo manor and the villages of Czarnostowo, Dzierżanowo, and Szwelice; 77 versts [1 verst = 1.07 kilometers] from Łomża, 8 versts from Maków, 13 versts from Pułtusk, and 9 versts from the Narew River. The area is 3,282 mórgs [Gerald Ortell’s book on Polish Parish Records states that in the Russian partition 1 mórg = 1.388 acres], specifically: arable land and gardens 853 mórgs, meadows 182 mórgs, forest 2,209 mórgs, wasteland and building plots 38 mórgs. Four-field crop rotation. 4 brick buildings, 20 wooden buildings. A steam mill processing approximately 12,000 bushels of grain annually; a sawmill, threshing machine and chaff cutter, powered by steam; a windmill, as well as deposits of marl and limestone. The village of Czarnostowo has 44 settlements and 341 mórgs of land; the village of Dzierżanowo has 12 settlements and 252 morgs of land; the village of Szwelice has 36 settlements and 779 mórgs of land. Aleksander Palmirski
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