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Introduction ...

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 Smith Corrals (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 Smith Corrals. 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.

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 southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals were in the next county to the east. Almost all of the nearby churches and cemeteries were in the county to the south.

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 east contained birth and death records; the county to the south 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.

Smith Corrals is located in Butte 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 Butte County: Bingham, Blaine, Clark, Custer, Jefferson & Lemhi.

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

  • Butte County     (The home county of Smith Corrals)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Smith Corrals, with the one closest to Smith Corrals listed first.
    • Butte City
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Butte City have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Butte City
      • Butte City is located in Butte County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 69 people
    • Arco
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
    • Lost River
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Lost River have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lost River
      • Lost River is located in Butte County
    • Moore
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
  • Bingham County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Smith Corrals, with the one closest to Smith Corrals listed first.
    • Coffee Point
      (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Coffee Point have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Coffee Point
      • Coffee Point is located in Bingham County
    • Atomic City
      (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
  • Custer County
    • Lost River
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Lost River have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lost River
      • Lost River is located in Custer County
      • Population from the 2010 Census: 68 people

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

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we first visit 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 Smith Corrals:

Cemeteries Near Smith Corrals ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Smith Corrals.

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 Smith Corrals covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.

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

  • Hillcrest Cemetery
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
  • Lost River Cemetery
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
  • Antelope Cemetery
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Antelope Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Antelope Cemetery
  • Upper Antelope Cemetery
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)

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.<5>

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

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

  • Martin
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Martin have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Martin
    • Martin is located in Butte County
  • Arco
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
  • Era
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Era have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Era
    • Era is located in Butte County
  • Lost River
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Lost River have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lost River
    • Lost River is located in Butte County

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

Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Smith Corrals. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.

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

Footnotes ...

<1>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.
<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 Find-a-Grave website is an excellent research tool with information about a cemetery's location and interments. They also offer a forum for their members which can provide additional help. More information about Find-a-Grave can be found on their website: findagrave.com.
<4>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Smith Corrals) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Smith Corrals. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 43.3266, Longitude: -113.2461       In this case, the coordinates for Smith Corrals have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>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 Smith Corrals, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.




 

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