Payette County, Idaho Genealogy

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County Courthouse
1130 3rd Avenue North, Payette, Idaho 83661  Phone (208) 642-6000

History Parent County 1917--Payette County was created 28 February 1917 from Canyon County and was named for the French fur trapper who worked for the Hudson's Bay Company named Francois Payette. County seat:  Payette The Handybook for Genealogists: United States of America,10th ed. (Draper, UT:Everton Publishers, 2002). Boundary Changes Record Loss

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

Cities
Fruitland | New Plymouth | Payette

Other inhabited places
Buckingham | Eiffie | Fort Wilson | Hamilton Corner | Ingard | Palisades Corner | Payette Heights | Ramey | Sand Hollow | Washoe } Wood

Neighboring Counties
Canyon | Gem | Washington | Malheur County, Oregon

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

Cemeteries
Payette County Cemeteries GenWeb

Findagrave Payette County

The following cemeteries of Payette 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.

History
Link to the history of the city of Payette: payettecounty.info/officials/hawley.html

Link to stories of people and places: payettecounty.info/marlow/intro.html

Maps

 * Link to historic maps of Payette County: payettecounty.info/maps/intro.html.
 * A digital Payette County Idaho map is available online.
 * Map of Payette County, Idaho is available online.

Military
World War I draft registration cards, 1917-1918, for Payette County have been microfilmed. Copies of these records are available at the Family History Library (their microfilm number 1452220) 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

 * Independent Enterprise

Vital Records
Social Security Death Index. ssdi.rootsweb.ancestry.com/

Marriages: Western States Marriage Index. abish.byui.edu/specialCollections/westernStates/search.cfm

Societies and Libraries
Payette County Historical Society

Web Sites

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