Declo, Idaho

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City Hall
Declo City Clerks P.O. Box 159/8 N. Clark Street Declo, Idaho 83323 (208) 654-2124

Current
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints - Declo Wards 213 West Main Street Declo, ID 83323

(208) 654-2084

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 Declo Ward(1909-1948) are found here.

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

History
Declo is a farming district lying east of Burley. Declo a station on the Burley and Idaho main branch of the Oregon Short Line Railroad is nine miles east of Burley, near the south bank of the Snake River and on the state highway leading from Burley to Pocatello. It is also on the old Oregon Trail. Declo was formerly called Marshfield. The total population was 1,088 in 1930.

Additional history of Declo, 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. 176

Newspapers
Copies of issues of some newspapers in the collections of the Idaho State Archives in Boise might be of interest to residents of Declo.