Boise County, Idaho Genealogy

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County Courthouse
Boise County

Parent County
1864 -- Boise County, Idaho was created 4 February 1864 from the Idaho Territory. County seat: Idaho City

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

Populated Places

 * Cities: Crouch | Horseshoe Bend | Idaho City | Placerville


 * Unincorporated Communties: Banks | Banner | Bear Creek Summer Home Area | Big Eddy | Brownlee | Camp Creek Summer Home Area | Centerville | Garden Valley | Gardena | Graham | Grandjean | Granite | Grimes Pass | Hardscrabble Campground | Howell | Long Creek Summit Home | Lowman | New Centerville | Pioneerville | Quartzburg | Star Ranch Summer Home Area | Steirman | Tenmile Summer Home Area | Twin Springs | Washington Mill

Neighboring Counties
Ada | Blaine | Custer | Elmore | Gem | Valley

Resources
Many of the older court, land, naturalization, probate, pension, and vital records for Boise County have been microfilmed and are available at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City and 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 of those which have been microfilmed and of more recent records are in the county courthouse in Idaho City.

Web Sites

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