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Introduction ...

So far, we found very little information about Boulder. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1>

We've added Boulder to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Boulder, please Contact Us.

We have a couple of goals for our Gazetteer:

  • That it be a tool which helps us with planning our trips.
  • We're trying to shape our Gazetteer as a tool to help us understand the community in which our ancestors lived, the community that was part of their daily lives.
  • On our trips, we try to visit those places where our ancestors left their footprints.

By learning about Boulder (and the surrounding area) during the time that our ancestors lived, we hope to have a better understanding of both their community and its relationship to their lifes. We hope that this tool helps to give us an insight into their world.

As we add data and organize our Gazetteer to help with our family research, we will be adding to this our Genealogical Helper for Boulder. While we don't have information that is specific to any given person or family, we intend to expand our understanding about where and how people lived.

Name Variations for Boulder ...

When searching records, keep in mind that names and their spelling can change over time. Our sources include documents like maps, railroad schedules, Travel, Express and Shipping Guides. Many of these documents date from the 1800's and it's common to find spelling differences.

Although we can't give a definitive list, hopefully the following will give you a feel for the variations that might have occurred.

Boulder has also been known as: Boulder Basin.

If you have information about these names (such as the reason for the change, date of change, the origin of the name), please Contact Us.

Neighboring Counties ...

When searching for family records, we have frequently made the mistake of not checking the neighboring counties.

For example, we have great-grandparents who lived in the northwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors and hospitals were in the next county to the west. Almost all of the nearby churches and cemeteries were in the county to the north.

So when searching for records, we had our best success by looking in neighboring counties instead of the county in which they lived:  their home county contained property and probate records; the county to the west contained birth and death records; the county to the north contained their burial records. If we hadn't included the neighboring counties, we would have missed many valuable sources of information.

If you're in a similar situation, we hope that the following information helps.

Although our information shows that the community of Boulder is historic, it would have been located within present day Blaine County.

To see how the shape of Idaho's counties have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Blaine County: Bingham, Boise, Butte, Camas, Cassia, Custer, Elmore, Lincoln, Minidoka & Power.

Below are the counties that are near Boulder. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Boulder:

  • Blaine County     (The home county of Boulder)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Boulder, with the one closest to Boulder listed first.
    • Galena
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Galena
      • Galena is located in Blaine County
    • Ketchum
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
    • Sun Valley
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
    • Elkhorn Village
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Elkhorn Village have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elkhorn Village
      • Elkhorn Village is located in Blaine County
    • Sawtooth City
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Sawtooth City have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sawtooth City
      • Sawtooth City is located in Blaine County
    • Triumph
      (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Triumph have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Triumph
      • Triumph is located in Blaine County
    • Hailey
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Hailey have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hailey
      • Hailey is located in Blaine County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 8,887 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Hailey <2>
    • Bellevue
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Bellevue have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bellevue
      • Bellevue is located in Blaine County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 2,501 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Bellevue <2>
    • Broadford
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Broadford
      • Broadford is located in Blaine County
  • Custer County
    • Clayton
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
  • Elmore County

For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Boulder, see our County-by-County Page for Boulder.

Newspapers Published in Boulder ...

An ongoing effort between the Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has resulted in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).

To share their results, the partnership has created the Chronicling America website. The goal of this partnership is to assemble a database about the current and historic newspapers of the United States. This includes a growing collection of scanned images from selected papers. All of it available to the public on their website.

Using information that we've taken from the Chronicling America website, we've identified 24 newspapers that have been published in the area around Boulder.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Boulder, there are papers which were published within 24 miles [38.6 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Boulder.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we like to start with the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These websites either offer the information directly or else point to where you can find it. Their information is open to everyone.

To help you get started, the following links will take you to the pages that are relevant to Boulder:

Cemeteries Near Boulder ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Boulder.

This is a new section and is likely to have errors. If you find an error, such as a missing cemetery or we have the wrong name, please let us know. If you know of them, we would also appreciate learning about previous or alternate names.

If you need information about a burial or interment, photos, transcripts, how to contact the cemetery or local authorities, please visit our selection of Genealogy Websites (see below).

If not found below, our Cemetery List for Boulder covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Boulder, with the one closest to Boulder listed first.

  • Galena Pioneer Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Galena Pioneer Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Galena Pioneer Cemetery
  • Sawtooth Cemetery
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Sawtooth Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Sawtooth Cemetery
  • Bellevue Cemetery
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Bellevue Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Bellevue Cemetery

Nearby Communities in 1895 ...

We've built the following list with information that came from an Atlas published by Rand McNally in 1895. The Atlas had details such as the population of the community (which appears to have come from the 1890 Census) and whether there was a post office and/or railroad service available. We also indicate if the community no longer exists and is now historic.

While we didn't find Boulder in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Boulder.

These communities are listed based on their distance from Boulder, with the one closest to Boulder listed first.

  • Ketchum
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
  • Triumph
    (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Triumph have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Triumph
    • Triumph is located in Blaine County
  • Hailey
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Hailey have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hailey
    • Hailey is located in Blaine County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 8,887 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Hailey <2>
  • Bellevue
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Bellevue have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bellevue
    • Bellevue is located in Blaine County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 2,501 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Bellevue <2>
  • Doniphan
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the south)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Doniphan have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Doniphan
    • Doniphan is located in Blaine County
  • Clayton
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)

We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Boulder. See our List of 1890's Communities around Boulder.

The official website for Blaine County: www.co.blaine.id.us/

The official website for State of Idaho: www.state.id.us/

Footnotes ...

<1>We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Boulder, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<2>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<3>The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required.
<4>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Boulder) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Boulder. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 43.8405, Longitude: -114.5073    









 

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