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 Blue Dome (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 Blue Dome. 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 hospitals and doctors 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.

Blue Dome is located in Clark 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 Clark County: Butte, Fremont, Jefferson, Lemhi & Beaverhead (MT).

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

Clark County (The home county of Blue Dome)
- Lone Pine
  (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
  - Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lone Pine
  - Lone Pine is located in Clark County
Butte County
- Howe
  (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
  - 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>
Jefferson County
- The following are listed by their distance from Blue Dome, with the one closest to Blue Dome listed first.
- Monteview
  (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
  - Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Monteview have been provided by the GNIS.<1> 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 <2>
- Mud Lake
  (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
  - Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Mud Lake have been provided by the GNIS.<1> 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 <2>

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

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we begin 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 Blue Dome:

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 Clark 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
- Jefferson 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 Clark County
- FamilySearch.org: Cemeteries of Idaho
- Find-A-Grave: Home Page
- Interment.net
- Cemeteries of Idaho

Cemeteries Near Blue Dome ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Blue Dome.

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

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

John Day Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the south)
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the John Day Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the John Day Cemetery
Marshall Bare Memorial Site
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
- 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.<3>
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Marshall Bare Memorial Site is located 3 miles [4.8 km]<4> 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 <5>
Goddard Cemetery
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Goddard Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Goddard Cemetery
Lidy Hot Springs Cemetery
(18 miles [29 km] to the east)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Lidy Hot Springs Cemetery
William Robert Johnson Gravesite
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
- The William Robert Johnson Gravesite has also been known as:
- Johnson Gravesite
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the William Robert Johnson Gravesite
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2486320 <5>
Howe Cemetery
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Howe Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #1960915 <5>

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.<6>

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

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

Nicholia
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
- Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Nicholia have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nicholia
- Nicholia is located in Lemhi County
Howe
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
- 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>

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

Off-the-Road Links ...

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

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>	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.
<4>	Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Blue Dome) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Blue Dome. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 44.1602, Longitude: -112.9114 In this case, the coordinates for Blue Dome have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>	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.
<6>	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 Blue Dome, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.