Benewah County, Idaho Genealogy

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Parent County
1915--Benewah County, Idaho was created 23 January 1915 from Kootenai County. County seat: Saint Maries. Named after a chief of the Coeur d'Alene Indian tribe.

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

Populated Places

 * Cities: Parkline | Plummer | Saint Maries | Tensed


 * Communities: Alder Creek | Benewah | Butler Bay | Cardwell | Chat’u’washa’lqs Bluff | Chatcolet | Coeur d'Alene Indian Reservation | De Smet | Emida | Fernwood | Flat Creek | Hawleys Landing | Jims Spur | Lotus | Mashburn | Meadowhurst | Milltown | Mowry | North South Skil Bowl | Omega | Pedee | Plummer Junction | Ramsdell | Renfrew | Riverdale | Rocky Point | Rover | Ryan Spur | Saint Joe | Sanders | Santa | Silvertip Landing | Tyson Creek Station | Wayland | Willard

Neighboring Counties
Kootenai | Latah | Shoshone | Washington counties: Spokane | Whitman

Resources
Many of the older court, land, naturalization, probate, pension, and vital records for Benewah 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 Saint Maries.

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


 * Desmet Cemetery - Desmet Mission
 * Emida Cemetery - Emida
 * Evergreen Cemetery - Plummer
 * Freeze Cemetery - 8 m N of Potlatch, Freeze Church
 * Old Sanders Cemetery - about 2 m SE of Sanders
 * Sacred Heart Cemetery - Tensed
 * Sanders Cemetery - Methodist Conference Camp, Sanders
 * Santa Cemetery (Riverside Cemetery) - 2 m out of Santa on road to Fernwood
 * St. Joe Mission Cemetery - 7.5 m N of St. Maries on Hwy 3
 * Woodland Cemetery - St. Maries

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

Military
World War I draft registration cards, 1917-1918, for Benewah County have been microfilmed. Copies of these records are available at the Family History Library (their microfilm number 1452220) 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

 * Gazette- Record

Taxation
Any existing tax assessment rolls for Benewah County should be in the courthouse in Saint Maries and would need to be accessed by visiting there.

Web Sites

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