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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 Driggs (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 Driggs. 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 southeast 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 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 east 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.

Driggs is located in Teton County and is the County Seat.

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 Teton County: Bonneville, Fremont, Madison & Teton (WY).

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

  • Teton County     (The home county of Driggs)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Driggs, with the one closest to Driggs listed first.
    • Aline ‑ Historic
      (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
      • Aline is located in Teton County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Aline
    • Chapin
      (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
      • Chapin is located in Teton County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chapin
    • Fox Creek
      (5 miles [8 km] to the south)
      • Fox Creek is located in Teton County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fox Creek
    • Tetonia
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Victor
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
    • The String
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
      • The String is located in Teton County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for The String
    • Felt
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
  • Bonneville County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Driggs, with the one closest to Driggs listed first.
    • Swan Valley
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Irwin
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
      • Irwin is located in Bonneville County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Irwin
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 250 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Irwin <1>
    • Palisades
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
      • Palisades is located in Bonneville County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Palisades
  • Fremont County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Driggs, with the one closest to Driggs listed first.
    • Drummond
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
      • Drummond is located in Fremont County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Drummond
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 16 people
    • Squirrel
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
      • Squirrel is located in Fremont County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Squirrel
    • Newdale
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
    • Marysville
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
      • Marysville is located in Fremont County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Marysville
    • Warm River
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
      • Warm River is located in Fremont County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Warm River
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 3 people
    • Ashton
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Chester
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
    • Teton
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
  • Madison County
    • Walker
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
      • Walker is located in Madison County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Walker
  • Teton County (WY)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Driggs, with the one closest to Driggs listed first.
    • Alta
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Teton Village
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Moose
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
    • Moose Wilson Road
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
      • Moose Wilson Road is located in Teton County (WY)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Moose Wilson Road
    • Wilson
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
    • Kelly
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
    • Jackson
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
      • Jackson is located in Teton County (WY)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jackson
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 10,572 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Jackson <1>
    • Rafter J Ranch
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
      • Rafter J Ranch is located in Teton County (WY)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rafter J Ranch
    • Colter Bay Village
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
      • Colter Bay Village is located in Teton County (WY)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Colter Bay Village
      • Colter Bay Village has also been known as:
      • Colter Bay
    • South Park
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
      • South Park is located in Teton County (WY)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for South Park
    • Moran
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)

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

Cemeteries Near Driggs ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Driggs.

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 Driggs - one of the links might be able to help.

If not found below, our Cemetery List for Driggs covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.

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

  • Driggs Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the east)
  • Driggs - Darby Cemetery
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the southeast)
  • Pratt Cemetery
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pratt Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Pratt Cemetery is located less than 2 miles<2> to the northeast of Alta (WY).
    • The Pratt Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Alta Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #467387 <3>
  • Bates Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
  • Cedron Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
  • Cache Clawson Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
  • Haden Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
  • Victor Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
  • Felt Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
  • Elliott Cemetery
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
  • Swan Valley Cemetery
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
  • Farnum Cemetery
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
  • Continue List   (10 more) ...

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

Newspapers Published in Driggs ...

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 5 newspapers that have been published in the area around Driggs.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Driggs, there are papers which were published within 24 miles [38.6 km]<2>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Driggs.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we first visit 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 Driggs:

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>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 drawn from Point A (ie- Driggs) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<3>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.