Bingham County, Idaho Genealogy

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Bingham County

History
Bingham County History

Parent County
1885--Bingham County, Idaho was created 13 January 1885 from Oneida County. Named for Elisha E. Bingham or Henry H. Bingham. County seat: Blackfoot

Boundary Changes
4 March 1893 -- Fremont County created from part of Bingham and Lemhi Counties

7 February 1911 -- Bonneville County created from part of Bingham County

30 January 1913 -- Power County created from parts of Bingham, Blaine, and Oneida Counties

26 January 1915 -- Teton County created from part ofs Bingham, Fremont, and Madison Counties

6 February 1917 -- Butte County created from part of Bingham County

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

Populated Places

 * Cities: Aberdeen | Atomic City | Basalt | Blackfoot | Firth | Shelley


 * Unincorporated Communities: Aberdeen Junction | Aiken | Alridge | Cerro Grande | Clarkson | Coffee Point | Collins | Cox | Fingal | Fort Hall | Fort Hall Indian Reservation | Fullmer | Gay | Gibson | Goshen | Goshen Junction | Grandview | Groveland | Havens | Jamestown | Kimball | Liberty | McDonaldville | Midway | Mitchell | Moreland | Morgan | Olsen | Peterson | Pingree | Rising River | Riverside | Rockford | Rose | Rouse | Springfield | Sterling | Taber | Thomas | Thomas Junction | Trailton | Wapello | Wolverine | Woodville

Neighboring Counties
Bannock | Blaine | Bonneville | Butte | Caribou | Jefferson | Power

Resources
Many of the older court, land, naturalization, probate, pension, and vital records for Bingham 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 which have been microfilmed and more recent records are in the county courthouse in Blackfoot.

Cemeteries
LDS Cemetery Records US Vol. 5 page 165 - Just Cemetery

See also Eastern Idaho Death Index.


 * Aberdeen Cemetery East on East Central Street, go about 1/4 mile on south side of road
 * Basalt Cemetery West of Basalt on the west side of Highway 91 between Firth and Shelley
 * Firth Cemetery Take Highway 91 out of Blackfoot going north, at the Firth Mill turn right across the railroad tracks and stay on that road until it dead ends into the cemetery.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons)
The following are local congregations (wards) of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints which existed in Bingham County, Idaho prior to 1950. Many of the original records of these church units are in the Historical 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.

Military
World War I draft registration cards, 1917-1918, for Bingham County have been microfilmed. Copies of these records are available at the Family History Library (their microfilm numbers 1452108 and 1452109) and are also available online at Ancestry.com, for a subscription fee. The original cards are maintained in the Southeast Regional Archives of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) in East Point, Georgia and have been microfilmed by the National Archives as their Microcopy M1509.

Current

 * Shelley Pioneer
 * The Morning News (1891 called Idaho News; 1892 called Blackfoot News) Blackfoot Public Library offers access to historic editions of this news paper on microfilm through interlibrary loan. Blackfoot Public LIbrary will also perform brief searches for $1 and $.10 per copy fee.

Vital Records
Bingham County Clerk's Office has a birth registry for 1907-1911.

Birth and Deaths from 1905 to 1911 have been microfilmed and are available at the Family History Library.

For an exhaustive list of death related sources see: Eastern Idaho Death Index. For deaths listed at the state see Idaho Death Index (1911-1956).

6,451 marriages from 8 Jan 1885 to 6 Nov 1949 are listed onhe Western States Marriage Index.

Web Sites

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