Hamer, Jefferson County, Idaho Genealogy

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City Hall
Hamer City Contact Jefferson County Clerk (208) 662-5257

Current
Church of Jesus Christ of LDS‎ 101 East Main Street

Hamer, ID 83425-5143

(208) 662-5239

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 Hamer Branch and Hamer Ward are included.

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

History
Hamer is a farming district lying along the Oregon Short Line Railroad. The few families who have settled in this community are engaged in dry farming and rely upon obtaining water for irrigation and culinary purpose by pumping it from wells. The total population of the Hamer Precinct was 348 in 1930

Additional history of Hamer, 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. 310.

Newspapers
Copies of issues of some newspapers in the collections of the Idaho State Archives in Boise may be of help to residents of Hamer.