Lewis County, Idaho Genealogy

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Parent County
1911--Lewis County was created 3 March 1911 from Nez Perce County. County seat: Nezperce

Places/Localities
The following list of places includes incorporated cities and towns, unincorporated towns and communities, and place names that may have been used in family histories. Some have well-organized records and even have web sites. Some are simply social communities with no official records, but which may be referenced in small-town newspapers. The list is provided to help researchers identify localities within the county. As records or histories of these localities are identified, a page will be added for each of these place names.

This list of places in Lewis County, Idaho was compiled from the Lists of Places in Idaho in Wikipedia and from the map of Lewis County in Virtual Earth.

Cities
Craigmont | Kamiah | Nezperce | Winchester

Other inhabited places
Clicks | Craig Junction | Fletcher | Forest | Harris Siding | Kippen | Mohler | Morrow | Nez Perce Indian Reservation | Nucrag | Reubens | Slickpoo | Suckpoo

Former inhabited places, no longer in existence
Ilo and Vollmer (combined to form Craigmont)

Neighboring Counties
Clearwater | Idaho | Nez Perce |

Resources
Many of the older court, land, naturalization, probate, pension, and vital records for Lewis County have been microfilmed and are available at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City and through their family history centers. They are also available at the Idaho State Historical Society's Library in Boise. Details of the county records in these respective institutions can be obtained from their online catalogs or listings. Original records which have been microfilmed and more recent records are in the county courthouse in Nezperce.

Cemeteries
The following cemeteries of Lewis County have some records in the Idaho State Historical Society Public Archives and Research Library:


 * Central Ridge Cemetery - T35N, R1E, Sec 15
 * Charlotte McDermont grave - T32N, R3W, Sec 7
 * Cold Springs - Bailey Cemetery - abt 3.5 m W of Ruebens, T34N, R2W, Sec 22
 * Craigmont I.O.O.F. Cemetery - 1.5 m SW of Craigmont
 * Evergreen Cemetery - Golden Ridge, abt 4 m NW of Winchester
 * Fletcher Cemetery - abt .5 m NE of Fletcher townsite
 * Gilbert Cemetery (Russell Catholic Cemetery) - Russell Ridge near Nez Perce
 * Harry Jewell grave - 2 m N of Winchester T33N, R2W, Sec 17
 * Huckaby/ Risdon graves - Forest townsite
 * Kamiah I.O.O.F. Cemetery - Kamiah
 * Melinda S. Wilson grave - just outside of the SW corner of Talmax
 * Morrow Town Cemetery - S of Morrow townsite
 * Nezperce City Cemetery - .5 m S of Nez Perce on Hwy 7
 * Old Forest Cemetery - abt 2 m SE of Forest townsite T32N, R2W, Sec 7
 * Otelia & Charity Ladd graves - T32N, R3W, Sec 7
 * Pine City Cemetery - 2 m S of Ruebens on Ruebens Highway
 * Ruebens Cemetery - W edge of Ruebens
 * Second Indian Presbyterian Church Cemetery - Kamiah
 * Slickpoo Mission Cemetery - T34N, R3W, Sec 4
 * Woodlawn Cemetery - NW of Winchester

Census
For a summary of census records for the state of Idaho, see Idaho Census Records.

Military
World War I draft registration cards, 1917-1918, for Lewis County have been microfilmed. Copies of these records are available at the Family History Library (their microfilm number 1452218) and are also available online at Ancestry.com, for a subscription fee. The original cards are maintained in the Southeast Regional Archives of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) in East Point, Georgia and have been microfilmed by the National Archives as their Microcopy M1509.

Current

 * Clearwater Progress
 * Lewis County Herald

Societies and Libraries
Ilo-Vollmer Historical Society Box 61 Craigmont, ID 83523 Ph. 208-924-5474

Contact -- Shelley Kuther, President or Byron D. Bovey HCR 1 Box 41 Craigmont, ID 83523 Ph. 208-924-7336 A researcher with the Historical Society

Craigmont City Library 112 W. Main St. Craigmont, ID 83523 Ph. 208-924-5510

Nezperce City Library 502 Oak St. Nezperce, ID 83543 Ph. 208-937-2458

Websites

 * The Lewis County ID GenWeb Project, a member of The IDGenWeb Project, an affiliate of The USGenWeb Project
 * Family History Library Catalog