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 Dehlin (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 Dehlin. 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 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.
Dehlin is located in Bonneville 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 Bonneville County: Bingham, Caribou, Jefferson, Madison, Teton, Lincoln (WY) & Teton (WY).
Below are the counties that are near Dehlin. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Dehlin:
- Bonneville County (The home county of Dehlin)
- The following are listed by their distance from Dehlin, with the one closest to Dehlin listed first.
- Bone
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
- Bone is located in Bonneville County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bone
- Ozone
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
- Ozone is located in Bonneville County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ozone
- Ammon
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
- Iona
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
- 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>
- Taylorville
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
- Taylorville is located in Bonneville County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Taylorville
- Idaho Falls
(18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
- Ucon
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
- 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>
- Swan Valley
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
- Irwin
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
- Palisades
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
- Palisades is located in Bonneville County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Palisades
- Keenan City
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
- Keenan City is located in Bonneville County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Keenan City
- Caribou City
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
- Caribou City is located in Bonneville County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Caribou City
- Bingham County
- The following are listed by their distance from Dehlin, with the one closest to Dehlin listed first.
- Shelley
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
- Woodville
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
- Woodville is located in Bingham County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Woodville
- Basalt
(23 miles [37 km] to the west)
- Firth
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
- Wapello
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
- Wapello is located in Bingham County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wapello
- Jefferson County
- The following are listed by their distance from Dehlin, with the one closest to Dehlin listed first.
- Ririe
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
- Garfield
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
- Garfield is located in Jefferson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Garfield
- Rigby
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
- Annis
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
- Annis is located in Jefferson County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Annis
- Lewisville
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
- Menan
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
- Madison County
- The following are listed by their distance from Dehlin, with the one closest to Dehlin listed first.
- Archer
(23 miles [37 km] to the north)
- Archer is located in Madison County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Archer
- Walker
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
- Walker is located in Madison County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Walker
- Rexburg
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Dehlin, see our County-by-County Page for Dehlin.
Cemeteries Near Dehlin ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Dehlin.
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 Dehlin - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Dehlin covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Dehlin, with the one closest to Dehlin listed first.
- Ammon Cemetery
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
- 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>
- Iona Cemetery
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
- Taylor Cemetery
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
- Ririe - Shelton Cemetery
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ririe - Shelton Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Ririe - Shelton Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the southwest of Ririe.
- The Ririe - Shelton Cemetery has also been known as:
- Ririe Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #80622 <2>
- Lincoln Cemetery
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
- Milo Cemetery
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
- Rose Hill Cemetery
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
- Ucon Cemetery
(18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
- New Sweden Cemetery
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
- Hillcrest Cemetery
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
- Rigby Pioneer Cemetery
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rigby Pioneer Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Rigby Pioneer Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the east of Rigby.
- The Rigby Pioneer Cemetery has also been known as:
- Pioneer Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #219994 <2>
- Swan Valley Cemetery
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
- Continue List (8 more) ...
- Woodville Cemetery
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
- Basalt Cemetery
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
- Sutton Cemetery
(23 miles [37 km] to the north)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sutton Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Sutton Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the northeast of Archer.
- The Sutton Cemetery has also been known as:
- Archer Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #80652 <2>
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>
While we didn't find Dehlin in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Dehlin.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Dehlin, with the one closest to Dehlin listed first.
- Idaho Falls
(18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
- Basalt
(23 miles [37 km] to the west)
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Dehlin. See our List of 1890's Communities around Dehlin.
Newspapers Published in Dehlin ...
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 14 newspapers that have been published in the area around Dehlin.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Dehlin, there are papers which were published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Dehlin.
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 professional and volunteer 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 Dehlin:
- Websites specific to Idaho
- Pages specific to Bonneville County
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- Bingham County
- Jefferson County
- Madison 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 Dehlin, 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 obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Dehlin) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |