Valley County, Idaho Genealogy

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Parent County
1917--Valley County, Idaho was created 26 February 1917 from Idaho and Boise Counties. County seat: Cascade

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

Cities
Cascade | Donnelly | McCall

Other inhabited places
Alpha | Archabal | Arling | Belvedere | Big Creek | Cabarton | Eagle Nest | Edwardsburg | Fritser Ford | Lake Fork | Landmark | Lardo | Lawman Ford | Midnight | Norwood | Old Fort | Roseberry | Silver Creek Plunge | Smiths Ferry | Stibnite | Warm Lake | West Mountain | Yellow Pine

Neighboring Counties
Adams | Boise | Custer | Gem | Idaho | Lemhi

Resources
Many of the older court, land, naturalization, probate, pension, and vital records for Valley County have been microfilmed and are available at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City and through their family history centers. They are also available 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 Cascade.

Cemeteries
The following cemeteries of Valley County have some records in the Idaho State Historical Society Public Archives and Research Library:


 * Alpha Cemetery - Long Valley, E of Alpha Grange Hall
 * Crawford Nook burials (Bean Homestead burials) - Glen Cove on Stibnite/Yellow Pine Rd
 * Crown Point Cemetery - Cascade Dam
 * Elizabeth Harris/ Mary Hollis graves - near Holmes Cemetery
 * Finland Cemetery (Finn Cemetery) - E of Lake Fork on Farm to Market Rd.
 * Holmes Cemetery - abt 3 m SE of Donnelly
 * J. L. Wisdom grave - SE of McCall
 * Margaret Cemetery (Margarite Cemetery) - Cascade
 * McCall Cemetery - McCall
 * Spink (or Bell) Cemetery - abt 2 m S of Finn Cemetery on Farm to Market Rd.
 * Thomas S. Moore grave - Frank Kerby Ranch S of Alpha Cemetery
 * Wile Jamison grave - abt 3.5 m NE of Upper Payette Lake
 * Willam Darling grave - S Fork Salmon River
 * Yellow Pine Cemetery - Yellow Pine

The following cemeteries of Valley County have been identified and some of their records located. When multiple transcriptions are listed, they may contain discrepant information. The transcriptions may have been made at different times and by different people. Some names may have been mis-read. Some gravestones may have been missed. All transcriptions available for each cemetery should be checked.

Census
For a summary of census records for the state of Idaho, see Idaho Census Records.

Maps

 * A digital Valley County Idaho map is available online.
 * Map of Valley County, Idaho is available online.

Military
World War I draft registration cards, 1917-1918, for Valley County have been microfilmed. Copies of these records are available at the Family History Library (their microfilm number 1452224) 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

 * Cascade Advocate
 * Star - News

Societies and Libraries
Valley County Genealogy Society and Cascade Public Library

Web Sites

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