Our Genealogy Helper

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 Atomic City (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 Atomic City. 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 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.

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

• Bingham County     (The home county of Atomic City)
  • The following are listed by their distance from Atomic City, with the one closest to Atomic City listed first.
  • Coffee Point
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
    • 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
    (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Aberdeen Junction
    • Aberdeen Junction is located in Bingham County
  • Liberty
    (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Liberty
    • Liberty is located in Bingham County
  • Moreland
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
    • 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>
  • Pingree
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
    • 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>
  • Springfield
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
    • 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>
  • Riverside
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Riverside
    • Riverside is located in Bingham County
  • Collins
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Collins
    • Collins is located in Bingham County
  • Blackfoot
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
    • 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
    (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wapello
    • Wapello is located in Bingham County
• Butte County
  • The following are listed by their distance from Atomic City, with the one closest to Atomic City listed first.
  • Butte City
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
    • 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
  • Howe
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Howe have been provided by the GNIS.<1> 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 <2>
  • Arco
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arco
    • Arco is located in Butte County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 893 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Arco <2>

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

Newspapers Published in Atomic City ...

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 18 newspapers that have been published in the area around Atomic City.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Atomic City, there are papers which were published within 29 miles [46.7 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Atomic City.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we start 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 Atomic City:

• Websites specific to Idaho
  • Jump to Cyndi's List
  • Jump to Family Search
  • Jump to Genealogy Trails
  • Website for the //history.idaho.gov/idaho-state-archives

• Pages specific to Bingham County
  • Jump to Cyndi's List
  • Jump to Family Search
  • Jump to Genealogy Trails

• Genealogy information for nearby counties
  • Butte County
    • Jump to Cyndi's List
    • Jump to Family Search
    • Jump to Genealogy Trails

• Cemetery Information and Directories for Idaho
  • Cemetery Junction: Cemeteries of Idaho
  • Cyndi's List
  • Cemeteries of Idaho
  • Cemeteries of Bingham County
  • FamilySearch.org: Cemeteries of Idaho
  • Find-A-Grave: Home Page
  • Interment.net
  • Cemeteries of Idaho
  • Cemeteries of Bingham County

Cemeteries Near Atomic City ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Atomic City.

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

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

• Moreland Cemetery
  (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
  • 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
• Thomas Riverside Cemetery
  (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
  • 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
• Howe Cemetery
  (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Howe Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #1960915 <4>
• Springfield Cemetery
  (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Springfield Cemetery
• Groveland Cemetery
  (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
  • 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
• Hillcrest Cemetery
  (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Hillcrest Cemetery
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #80501 <4>
• Grove City Cemetery
  (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Grove City Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Grove City 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.<5>

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

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

• Howe
  (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Howe have been provided by the GNIS.<1> 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 <2>
• Arco
  (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Arco
  • Arco is located in Butte County
  • Population from the 2020 Census: 893 people
  • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Arco <2>
• Blackfoot
  (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
  • 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>

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

Off-the-Road Links ...

Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Atomic City. 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/