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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 Clyde (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 Clyde. 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.

Clyde is located in Butte 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 Butte County: Bingham, Blaine, Clark, Custer, Jefferson & Lemhi.

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

  • Butte County     (The home county of Clyde)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Clyde, with the one closest to Clyde listed first.
    • Howe
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
      • 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>
    • Moore
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
  • Clark County
    • Lone Pine
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lone Pine
      • Lone Pine is located in Clark County
  • Custer County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Clyde, with the one closest to Clyde listed first.
    • Alder City ‑ Historic
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Alder City have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alder City
      • Alder City is located in Custer County
    • Mackay
      (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Mackay have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mackay
      • Mackay is located in Custer County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 493 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Mackay <2>

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

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 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 Clyde:

Cemeteries Near Clyde ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Clyde.

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

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

  • Marshall Bare Memorial Site
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the east)
    • 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>
  • William Robert Johnson Gravesite
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
  • John Day Cemetery
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
    • 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
  • Goddard Cemetery
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
    • 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
  • Mt. McCaleb Cemetery
    (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Mt. McCaleb Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Mt. McCaleb Cemetery
  • Houston Cemetery
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Houston Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Houston Cemetery
  • Darlington Cemetery
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Darlington Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Darlington Cemetery
  • Old Darlington Cemetery
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Old Darlington Cemetery. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Old Darlington Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2174848 <5>
  • Battleground Cemetery
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Battleground Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Battleground Cemetery
  • Pioneer Cemetery
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
  • Howe Cemetery
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)

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 Clyde in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Clyde.

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

  • Nicholia
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
    • 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
  • Leslie
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Leslie have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Leslie
    • Leslie is located in Custer County
  • Houston
    (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Houston have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Houston
    • Houston is located in Custer County
  • Howe
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
    • 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 Clyde. See our List of 1890's Communities around Clyde.

Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Clyde. 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 '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- Clyde) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Clyde. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 44.1357, Longitude: -113.2470       In this case, the coordinates for Clyde 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 Clyde, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.




 

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