Lemhi County, Idaho Genealogy

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Parent County
1869--Lemhi County was created 9 January 1869 from Idaho County. County seat: Salmon

Boundary Changes
8 January 1881 -- Custer County created from parts of Alturas and Lemhi Counties

4 March 1893 -- Fremont County created from parts of Bingham and Lemhi Counties

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 Lemhi County, Idaho was compiled from the Lists of Places in Idaho in Wikipedia and from the map of Lemhi County in Virtual Earth.

Cities
Salmon

Other inhabited places
Baker | Blackbird Townsite | Carmen | Cobalt | Forney | Gibbonsville | Gilmore | Hahn | Leadore | Leadville | Leesburg | Lemhi | May | Nicholia | North Fork | Patterson | Shoup | Tendoy | Ulysses | Yellowjacket

Neighboring Counties
Butte | Clark | Custer | Idaho | Valley | Beaverhead County, Montana | Ravalli County, Montana

Resources
Many of the older court, land, naturalization, probate, pension, and vital records for Lemhi 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 Salmon.

Cemeteries
The following cemeteries of Lemhi County have been identified and some of their records located. When multiple transcriptions are listed, they may contain discrepant information. The transcriptions may have been made at different times and by different people. Some names may have been mis-read. Some gravestones may have been missed. All transcriptions available for each cemetery should be checked.

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

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons)
The following are local congregations (wards) of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints which existed in Lemhi County, Idaho prior to 1950. Many of the original records of these church units are in the Historical Library in Salt Lake City. Many of the membership records covering these units from the date of their creation to about 1948 have been microfilmed and are available at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City.


 * Leadore
 * Lemhi
 * Salmon
 * Silver Creek

Maps

 * An 1895 map of Lemhi and surrounding counties is available online.
 * A digital Lemhi County Idaho map is available online.
 * Map of Lemhi County, Idaho is available online.

Military
World War I draft registration cards, 1917-1918, for Lemhi County have been microfilmed. Copies of these records are available at the Family History Library (their microfilm number 1452218) and are also available onlineat 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

 * Recorder- Herald

Vital Records
Eastern Idaho Death Index

Web Sites

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