Menan, Jefferson County, Idaho Genealogy

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City Hall
Menan City Clerks P.O. Box 127 Menan, Idaho 83434 (208) 754-8876

Current
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints‎

Menan 1st, 5th, 4th Wards 698 North 3600 East Menan, ID 83434

(208) 754-8789

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints‎ Menan 1st, 3rd and Annis Wards 3547 E Menan Lorenzo Hwy Menan, ID 83434

(208) 754-4549

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 Menan Ward(s) (1881-1948) are included.

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

History
The town of Menan was founded by John R. Pools and others in April 1879, and improvements were commenced at a point west of the “Little Buttes,” a well know landmark on Poole’s Island. The Menan town site covers 320 acres is situated 18 miles north of Idaho Falls and eight miles northwest of Rigby. The total population of Menan Precinct was 910 in 1930.

Additional history of Menan, 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. 488.

Newspapers
Copies of issues of one Menan newspaper are in the collections of the Idaho State Archives in Boise.