Hazelton, Jerome County, Idaho Genealogy

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City Hall
Hazelton City Clerk 246 Main St Hazelton, Idaho 83335 (208) 829-5415

Current
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Hazelton 1st and 2nd wards 531 Middleton Avenue Hazelton, ID 83335

(208) 829-4101

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 in Salt Lake City or at its FamilySearch Centers.

Current
Valley Presbyterian Church‎ 310 Park Street Hazelton, ID 83335

Other
Valley Christian Center‎ 35 Main Street Hazelton, ID 83335-5117

(208) 829-5862

Canyon Christian Church‎ 1084 South 2400 East Hazelton, ID 83335-5660

(208) 829-5445

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

History
The community was named for Hazel Barlow, daughter of founder Joe Barlow. Hazelton is a farming district with a station of the Oregon Short Line Railroad located 28 miles West of Rupert. The rich farming district is irrigated from the North Side Canal which taps the Snake River at the Milner Dam. Frank Simmons, Melvin Roylance and James M. Mendenhall, settled the land in 1917. The total population of the Hazelton Precinct was 1,372 in 1930.

Additional history of Hazelton, Idaho and the early Latter-day Saint 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. 327.

Historical
Copies of issues of two Hazelton newspapers are in the collections of the Idaho State Archives in Boise.

Historical

East End news -- 1970: 1:1-1971:5:6

First segregation news -- 1936:1:30 -1967:10:5