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 Basalt (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 Basalt. 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 northeast 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 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.
Basalt is located in Bingham County.
To see how the shape of Idaho's counties may 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 Basalt. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Basalt:
- Bingham County (The home county of Basalt)
- The following are listed by their distance from Basalt, with the one closest to Basalt listed first.
- Firth
(Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
- Shelley
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
- Wapello
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
- Wapello is located in Bingham County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wapello
- Woodville
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
- Woodville is located in Bingham County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Woodville
- Blackfoot
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
- Collins
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
- Collins is located in Bingham County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Collins
- Moreland
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
- Riverside
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
- Riverside is located in Bingham County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Riverside
- Aberdeen Junction
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
- Aberdeen Junction is located in Bingham County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Aberdeen Junction
- Liberty
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
- Liberty is located in Bingham County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Liberty
- Olsen
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
- Olsen is located in Bingham County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Olsen
- Fort Hall
(23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
- Bonneville County
- The following are listed by their distance from Basalt, with the one closest to Basalt listed first.
- Taylorville
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
- Taylorville is located in Bonneville County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Taylorville
- Idaho Falls
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
- Ammon
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
- Ozone
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
- Ozone is located in Bonneville County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ozone
- Bone
(18 miles [29 km] to the east)
- Bone is located in Bonneville County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bone
- Iona
(18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
- Iona is located in Bonneville County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Iona
- Population from the 2020 Census: 2,441 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Iona <1>
- Ucon
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
- Ucon is located in Bonneville County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ucon
- Population from the 2020 Census: 1,172 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Ucon <1>
- Caribou County
- Five Points ‑ Historic
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
- Five Points is located in Caribou County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Five Points
- Jefferson County
- The following are listed by their distance from Basalt, with the one closest to Basalt listed first.
- Garfield
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
- Garfield is located in Jefferson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Garfield
- Lewisville
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
- Rigby
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
- Roberts
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
- Menan
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
- Ririe
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
- Annis
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
- Annis is located in Jefferson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Annis
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Basalt, see our County-by-County Page for Basalt.
Cemeteries Near Basalt ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Basalt.
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.
Although we don't have the information ourselves, if you need information about a burial or interment, photos, transcripts, how to contact the cemetery or local authorities, please visit our list of websites on our Genealogy Helper Page for Basalt - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Basalt covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Basalt, with the one closest to Basalt listed first.
- Basalt Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the north)
- Riverview Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the west)
- Hillcrest Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
- Taylor Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
- Woodville Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
- Grove City Cemetery
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
- New Sweden Cemetery
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
- Groveland Cemetery
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
- Rose Hill Cemetery
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
- Ammon Cemetery
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ammon Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Ammon Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the east of Ammon.
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #80399 <2>
- Moreland Cemetery
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
- Gibson Cemetery
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
- Continue List (19 more) ...
- Lincoln Cemetery
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
- Iona Cemetery
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
- Thomas Riverside Cemetery
(18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
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.<3>
The Rand McNally Atlas shows that in 1895, Basalt had railroad service and no post office. In 2020, Basalt had a population of 411 people.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Basalt, with the one closest to Basalt listed first.
- Blackfoot
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southwest)
- Idaho Falls
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Basalt. See our List of 1890's Communities around Basalt.
Newspapers Published in Basalt ...
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 29 newspapers that have been published in the area around Basalt.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Basalt, there are papers which were published within 28 miles [45.1 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Basalt.
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 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 Basalt:
- Websites specific to Idaho
- Pages specific to Bingham County
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- Bonneville County
- Caribou County
- Jefferson County
- Cemetery Information and Directories for Idaho
Footnotes ...
| <1> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |
| <2> | 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. |
| <3> | 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 Basalt, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |
| <4> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a '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- Basalt) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |