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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 Berger (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 Berger. 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 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 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.

Berger is located in Twin Falls 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 Twin Falls County: Cassia, Elmore, Gooding, Jerome, Owyhee & Elko (NV).

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

  • Twin Falls County     (The home county of Berger)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Berger, with the one closest to Berger listed first.
    • Clover
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clover
      • Clover is located in Twin Falls County
    • Filer
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Filer have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Filer
      • Filer is located in Twin Falls County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 2,939 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Filer <2>
    • Twin Falls
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Twin Falls have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Twin Falls
      • Twin Falls is located in Twin Falls County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 51,411 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Twin Falls <2>
    • Hollister
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Hollister have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hollister
      • Hollister is located in Twin Falls County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 322 people
    • Kimberly
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Kimberly have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kimberly
      • Kimberly is located in Twin Falls County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 4,161 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Kimberly <2>
    • Buhl
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buhl
      • Buhl is located in Twin Falls County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 4,524 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Buhl <2>
    • Hansen
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Hansen have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hansen
      • Hansen is located in Twin Falls County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,290 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Hansen <2>
    • Castleford
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Castleford have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Castleford
      • Castleford is located in Twin Falls County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 251 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Castleford <2>
    • Rogerson
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Rogerson have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rogerson
      • Rogerson is located in Twin Falls County
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Rogerson <2>
    • Murtaugh
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
  • Cassia County
    • Artesian City ‑ Historic
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Artesian City
      • Artesian City is located in Cassia County
  • Gooding County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Berger, with the one closest to Berger listed first.
    • Wendell
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
    • Hagerman
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
  • Jerome County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Berger, with the one closest to Berger listed first.
    • Falls City
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Falls City have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Falls City
      • Falls City is located in Jerome County
    • Jerome
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Jerome have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jerome
      • Jerome is located in Jerome County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 12,106 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Jerome <2>
    • Eden
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Eden have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eden
      • Eden is located in Jerome County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 428 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Eden <2>
    • Hazelton
      (23 miles [37 km] to the east)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Hazelton have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hazelton
      • Hazelton is located in Jerome County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 821 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Hazelton <2>

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

Newspapers Published in Berger ...

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 30 newspapers that have been published in the area around Berger.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Berger, there are papers which were published within 28 miles [45.1 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Berger.

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 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 Berger:

Cemeteries Near Berger ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Berger.

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

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

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

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

The official website for Twin Falls County: www.twinfallscounty.org/

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 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Berger) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Berger. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 42.4696, Longitude: -114.5748       In this case, the coordinates for Berger 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>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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