Elmore County, Idaho Genealogy

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History

 * Named for Ida Elmore mines, the area's greatest silver and gold producer in 1860s.
 * The Oregon Trail crossed the Snake River near Glenns Ferry.

Parent County
7 February 1889: Elmore County, Idaho was created from Ada and Alturas 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 Elmore County, Idaho was compiled from the Lists of Places in Idaho in Wikipedia and from the map of Elmore County in Virtual Earth.

Populated Places

 * Cities: Glenns Ferry | Mountain Home


 * Unincorporated Communities: Alturas City | Anderson Dam | Atlanta | Castle Rocks | Chalk Cut | Cleft | Dixie | Emigrant Crossing | Featherville | Hammett | King Hill | Mayfield | Mountain Home Air Force Base | Paradise Hot Springs | Pilgrim Stage Station Historic Site | Pine | Prairie | Reclamation Village | Reverse | Rocky Bar | Sand Bank | Sebree | Spanish Town | Steamboat Rock | Stout Crossing

Neighboring Counties
Ada | Blaine | Boise | Camas | Custer | Gooding | Owyhee | Twin Falls

Resources
Many of the older court, land, naturalization, probate, pension, and vital records for Elmore 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 Mountain Home.

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 Canyon 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.


 * Glenn's Ferry
 * Mountain Home

Military
World War I draft registration cards, 1917-1918, for Elmore County have been microfilmed. Copies of these records are available at the Family History Library (their microfilm number 1452214) 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.

Newspapers

 * Mountain Home News

Web Sites

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