Victor, Teton County, Idaho Genealogy

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City Hall
Victor City Hall 32 Elm Street P.O. Box 122 Victor, ID 83455 Phone: 208-787-2940 Fax: 208-787-2357

Current
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints‎ Victor 1st, 2nd, 3rd wards

87 E Center St Victor, ID 83455

Historical
Many of the original records of church units are in the Church History 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 or at its Family History Centers. Records of the (1892-1948) are in this collection.

Directories
The Idaho State Archives in Boise has a collection of city, county, regional and state directories.

History
Nahum Curtis who, with others arrived in the valley in the spring of 1889 and located early in May at different points on the south side of Trail Creek. Only five families spent the winter of 1889-1890 in that section of the valley. Only a small part of the settlers resided on the town site, Victor is the terminus of the Teton Basin branch of the Oregon Short Line Railroad, eight miles due south of Driggs. The total population of the Victor Precinct is 624 in 1930.

Additional history of Victor, Idaho and the early Mormon settlers there can be found in: Andrew Jenson. Encyclopedic History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Salt Lake City: Deseret News Publishing Company, 1941, p. 914.

Newspapers
There are no copies of Victor in the collection of the Idaho State Archives in Boise, Idaho, but copies of newspapers in neighboring town newspapers may be of help to residents of Victor.