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Introduction ...

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

We've added Sweet Sage to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Sweet Sage, 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 Sweet Sage (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 Sweet Sage. 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 doctors 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.

Although our information shows that the community of Sweet Sage is historic, it would have been located within present day 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 Sweet Sage. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Sweet Sage:

  • Butte County     (The home county of Sweet Sage)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Sweet Sage, with the one closest to Sweet Sage listed first.
    • Howe
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Howe have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Howe
      • Howe is located in Butte County
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Howe <3>
    • Butte City
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Butte City have been provided by the GNIS.<2> 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
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Moore
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
    • Lost River
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Lost River have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lost River
      • Lost River is located in Butte County
  • Bingham County
    • Atomic City
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
  • Clark County
    • Lone Pine
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lone Pine
      • Lone Pine is located in Clark County
  • Custer County
    • Alder City ‑ Historic
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Alder City have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alder City
      • Alder City is located in Custer County
  • Jefferson County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Sweet Sage, with the one closest to Sweet Sage listed first.
    • Monteview
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Monteview have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Monteview
      • Monteview is located in Jefferson County
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Monteview <3>
    • Mud Lake
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Mud Lake have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mud Lake
      • Mud Lake is located in Jefferson County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 431 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Mud Lake <3>
    • Terreton
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Terreton have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Terreton
      • Terreton is located in Jefferson County
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Terreton <3>

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

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 helpful 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 Sweet Sage:

Cemeteries Near Sweet Sage ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Sweet Sage.

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

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

  • Howe Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
  • William Robert Johnson Gravesite
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
  • Goddard Cemetery
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Goddard Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Goddard Cemetery
  • Pioneer Cemetery
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
  • John Day Cemetery
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the John Day Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the John Day Cemetery
  • Hillcrest Cemetery
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
  • Marshall Bare Memorial Site
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Marshall Bare Memorial Site. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<6>
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Marshall Bare Memorial Site is located 3 miles [4.8 km]<5> to the northeast of Lone Pine.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Marshall Bare Memorial Site
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2455714 <4>
  • Lost River Cemetery
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
  • Darlington Cemetery
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Darlington Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Darlington Cemetery
  • Old Darlington Cemetery
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Old Darlington Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<6>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Old Darlington Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2174848 <4>
  • Lidy Hot Springs Cemetery
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)

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

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

  • Howe
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Howe have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Howe
    • Howe is located in Butte County
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Howe <3>
  • Arco
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
  • Lost River
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Lost River have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lost River
    • Lost River is located in Butte County
  • Leslie
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Leslie have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Leslie
    • Leslie is located in Custer County

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

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 Sweet Sage, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<2>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.
<3>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<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>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Sweet Sage) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Sweet Sage. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 43.8277, Longitude: -112.9278       In this case, the coordinates for Sweet Sage have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<6>An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace.




 

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