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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 Aberdeen Junction (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 Aberdeen Junction. 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 Aberdeen Junction ...

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.

For example, a typical abbreviation for Aberdeen Junction: Aberdeen Jct. (or less commonly used: Aberdeen Jctn.)

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 northeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors and hospitals were in the next county to the east. 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 east 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.

Aberdeen Junction 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 Aberdeen Junction. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Aberdeen Junction:

  • Bingham County     (The home county of Aberdeen Junction)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Aberdeen Junction, with the one closest to Aberdeen Junction listed first.
    • Moreland
      (Less than 2 miles to the east)
      • 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>
    • Riverside
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Collins
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
    • Liberty
      (5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
    • Blackfoot
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
      • 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>
    • Pingree
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
      • 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>
    • Wapello
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
    • Fort Hall
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
      • 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>
    • Springfield
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
      • 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>
    • Firth
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Firth have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Firth
      • Firth is located in Bingham County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 501 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Firth <2>
    • Basalt
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Basalt have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Basalt
      • Basalt is located in Bingham County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 411 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Basalt <2>
    • Shelley
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Shelley have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shelley
      • Shelley is located in Bingham County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 4,652 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Shelley <2>
    • Woodville
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
  • Bannock County
  • Bonneville County
  • Caribou County
  • Power County

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

Cemeteries Near Aberdeen Junction ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Aberdeen Junction.

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

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

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.<4>

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

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

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

Newspapers Published in Aberdeen Junction ...

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 41 newspapers that have been published in the area around Aberdeen Junction.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Aberdeen Junction, there are papers which were published within 28 miles [45.1 km]<5>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Aberdeen Junction.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we first turn to the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These professional and volunteer 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 Aberdeen Junction:

Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Aberdeen Junction. 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: https://idaho.gov/

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>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 Aberdeen Junction, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<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 drawn from Point A (ie- Aberdeen Junction) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Aberdeen Junction. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 43.2225, Longitude: -112.4680    









 

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