Wards and Branches of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Twin Falls Stake, Idaho

This page includes the boundaries of wards and branches as of about 1930, a timeline history, and how to obtain the records.

Source used for this page: p.891-892.

Twin Falls Stake, 1930
Stake boundaries as of about 1930 See Encyclopedic History..., p. 891-892.


 * Area of the County: Twin Falls County, Idaho, south side of the Snake River.
 * Headquarters in: Twin Falls, Idaho
 * Boundaries of stake:

Twin Falls Stake of Zion consists of the Latter-day Saints residing in Twin Falls County, Idaho, on the south side of Snake River. History Timeline up to about 1930


 * 1919 - At a stake conference of the Cassia Stake held July 26, a part of the country, which up to that time had belonged to the Cassia Stake, was organized into a new stake of Zion, named Twin Falls Stake.

Obtain the Records

 * List of church and other records at the Family History Library.
 * For additional resources, see Church History Library.

Wards and Branches
Buhl, Kimberly, Murtaugh, Twin Falls Wards and Hollister Branch.

Buhl Ward
See Encyclopedic History..., p. 96-97.

Boundaries:

Buhl Ward, Twin Falls Stake, Twin Falls County, Idaho Consists of the Latter-day Saints residing in the railroad and farming town of Buhl, which is the western terminus of the Minidoka and Northwestern Railroad (a branch of the Oregon Short Line Railroad), eighteen miles northwest of Twin Falls.

History timeline:


 * 1916 - Buhl Ward is an outgrowth of the Twin Falls Ward, to which ward the first L. D. S. settlers in the Buhl district belonged. As early as 1916 the saints at Buhl constituted a branch of the Twin Falls Ward.
 * 1919 - On July 20 the Buhl Branch was organized as a ward.

Obtain the records


 * List of church and other records at the Family History Library.
 * For additional resources, see Church History Library.

Hollister Branch
See Encyclopedic History..., p. 341.

Boundaries:

Hollister Branch, Twin Falls Stake, Twin Falls Co., Idaho, consists of the Latter-day Saints residing in the village of Hollister and surrounding country. Hollister is situated about 20 miles southwest of Twin Falls, being a station on the Twin Falls-Rogerson branch of the Oregon Short Line Railroad.

History timeline


 * 1921 - A few Latter-day Saint families, who had located in the Hollister district, were organized into an independent branch of the Church March 24.

Obtain the records


 * List of church and other records at the Family History Library. *For additional resources, see Church History Library.

Kimberly Ward
See Encyclopedic History..., p. 400-401.

Boundaries:

Kimberly Ward, Twin Falls Stake, Twin Falls Co., Idaho, consists of the Latter-day Saints residing in the town of Kimberly and vicinity. This town is situated on the Minidoka-Buhl branch of the Oregon Short Line Railroad, three miles south of Snake River, six miles east of Twin Falls and 32 miles west of Burley.

History timeline


 * 1905 - On May 28, the saints in the Kimberly district were organized as a branch of the Marion Ward.
 * 1909 - On May 10 the Kimberly Branch was organized as a regular bishop’s ward.

Obtain the records


 * List of church and other records at the Family History Library.
 * For additional resources, see Church History Library.

Murtaugh Ward
See Encyclopedic History..., p. 557.

Boundaries:

Murtaugh Ward, Twin Falls Stake, Twin Falls County, Idaho consist of the Latter-day Saints residing in the Murtaugh farming district, which is partly under the Twin Falls Reclamation Project, but part of it is also irrigated from the Milner Low Lift Irrigation Project.

History timeline


 * 1916 - Organized as a branch of Marion Ward, Cassia Stake, May 9.
 * 1918 - On May 26, the Murtaugh Branch, which had hitherto belonged to the Marion Ward, was organized as a bishop’s ward.

Obtain the records


 * List of church and other records at the Family History Library.
 * For additional resources, see Church History Library.

Twin Falls Ward
See Encyclopedic History..., p. 892.

Boundaries:

Twin Falls Ward, Twin Falls Stake, Twin Falls Co., Idaho, consists of the Latter-day Saints residing in the incorporated city of Twin Falls and surrounding country.

History timeline


 * 1905 - The first branch organization in this part of Idaho was the Kimberly Branch, organized by the Cassia Stake presidency May 28, 1905.
 * 1908 - The Kimberly Branch was divided Aug. 23, and the west part of the same organized as a separate branch, called the Twin Falls Branch.
 * 1910 - On June 19, the Twin Falls Branch was organized as the Twin Falls Ward.

Obtain the records


 * List of church and other records at the Family History Library.
 * For additional resources, see Church History Library.