Butte County, Idaho Genealogy

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Parent County
1917--Butte County, was created 6 February 1917 from Bingham, Blaine and Jefferson Counties. County seat: Arco

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

Populated Places

 * Cities: Arco | Butte City


 * Unincorporated Communities: Berenice | Clyde | Craters of the Moon National Monument | Darlington | Era | Howe | Lost River | Martin | Moore | Scoville | Smith Corrals

Neighboring Counties
Bingham | Blaine | Clark | Custer | Jefferson | Lemhi

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

Church
LDS Ward and Branch Records


 * Arco Ballard
 * Darlington
 * Lost River
 * Moore

Vital Records
Eastern Idaho Death Index

Web Sites

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