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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 Sterling (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 Sterling. 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 southwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and doctors were in the next county to the west. 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 west 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.

Sterling is located in Bingham 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 Bingham County: Bannock, Blaine, Bonneville, Butte, Caribou, Jefferson & Power.

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

  • Bingham County     (The home county of Sterling)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Sterling, with the one closest to Sterling listed first.
    • Springfield
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Springfield have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Springfield
      • Springfield is located in Bingham County
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Springfield <2>
    • Pingree
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Pingree have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pingree
      • Pingree is located in Bingham County
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Pingree <2>
    • Aberdeen
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Aberdeen have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Aberdeen
      • Aberdeen is located in Bingham County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,992 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Aberdeen <2>
    • Liberty
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Liberty
      • Liberty is located in Bingham County
    • Fort Hall
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Fort Hall have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fort Hall
      • Fort Hall is located in Bingham County
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Fort Hall <2>
    • Coffee Point
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
      • 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
    • Aberdeen Junction
      (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Aberdeen Junction
      • Aberdeen Junction is located in Bingham County
    • Riverside
      (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Riverside
      • Riverside is located in Bingham County
    • Moreland
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Moreland have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Moreland
      • Moreland is located in Bingham County
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Moreland <2>
    • Collins
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Collins
      • Collins is located in Bingham County
    • Blackfoot
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Blackfoot have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blackfoot
      • Blackfoot is located in Bingham County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 12,025 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Blackfoot <2>
    • Wapello
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wapello
      • Wapello is located in Bingham County
  • Bannock County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Sterling, with the one closest to Sterling listed first.
    • Chubbuck
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Alameda
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alameda
      • Alameda is located in Bannock County
    • Pocatello
      (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
    • Inkom
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Inkom have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Inkom
      • Inkom is located in Bannock County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 910 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Inkom <2>
  • Power County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Sterling, with the one closest to Sterling listed first.
    • Michaud
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Michaud
      • Michaud is located in Power County
    • American Falls
      (18 miles [29 km] to the south)

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

Newspapers Published in Sterling ...

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 39 newspapers that have been published in the area around Sterling.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Sterling, there are papers which were published within 22 miles [35.4 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Sterling.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we begin with the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These websites 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 Sterling:

Cemeteries Near Sterling ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Sterling.

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

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

  • Springfield Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
  • Aberdeen Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
  • Indian Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
  • Indian Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Indian Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Indian Cemetery
  • Homestead Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
  • Good Shepherd Cemetery
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Good Shepherd Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Good Shepherd Cemetery
  • Thomas Riverside Cemetery
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Thomas Riverside Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Thomas Riverside Cemetery
  • Gibson Cemetery
    (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Gibson Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Gibson Cemetery
  • Moreland Cemetery
    (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Moreland Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Moreland Cemetery
  • Falls View Cemetery
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the south)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Falls View Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Falls View Cemetery
  • Mountain View Cemetery
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Mountain View Cemetery is a very large cemetery that is located outside and to the southeast of Pocatello.
    • The Mountain View Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Mt. Moriah Cemetery
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Mountain View Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #80577 <4>
  • Restlawn Memorial Gardens
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
  • Continue List   (8 more) ...
    • Groveland Cemetery
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Groveland Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Groveland Cemetery
    • Neeley Cemetery
      (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
    • Ross Fork Cemetery #1
      (23 miles [37 km] to the east)

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 Sterling in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Sterling.

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

  • American Falls
    (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
  • Pocatello
    (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
  • Blackfoot
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Blackfoot have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blackfoot
    • Blackfoot is located in Bingham County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 12,025 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Blackfoot <2>
  • Inkom
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Inkom have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Inkom
    • Inkom is located in Bannock County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 910 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Inkom <2>

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

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

The official website for Bingham County: www.co.bingham.id.us/

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>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a '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- Sterling) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Sterling. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 43.0380, Longitude: -112.7317       In this case, the coordinates for Sterling have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<4>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.
<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 Sterling, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.




 

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