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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 Dubois (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 Dubois. 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 and doctors 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.

Dubois is located in Clark County and is the County Seat.

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 Dubois. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Dubois:

  • Clark County     (The home county of Dubois)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Dubois, with the one closest to Dubois listed first.
    • Spencer
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Spencer have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spencer
      • Spencer is located in Clark County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 33 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Spencer <2>
    • Kilgore
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kilgore
      • Kilgore is located in Clark County
  • Fremont County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Dubois, with the one closest to Dubois listed first.
    • Egin
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Egin
      • Egin is located in Fremont County
    • Parker
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Parker have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Parker
      • Parker is located in Fremont County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 289 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Parker <2>
    • Saint Anthony
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Saint Anthony have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saint Anthony
      • Saint Anthony is located in Fremont County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 3,598 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Saint Anthony <2>
  • Jefferson County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Dubois, with the one closest to Dubois listed first.
    • Hamer
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Hamer have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hamer
      • Hamer is located in Jefferson County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 103 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Hamer <2>
    • Monteview
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
      • 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>
    • Terreton
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Terreton have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Terreton
      • Terreton is located in Jefferson County
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Terreton <2>
    • Mud Lake
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
      • 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>
  • Madison County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Dubois, with the one closest to Dubois listed first.
    • Edmonds
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Edmonds
      • Edmonds is located in Madison County
    • Plano
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Plano
      • Plano is located in Madison County
  • Beaverhead County (MT)
    • Monida
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the north)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Monida. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Monida
      • Monida is located in Beaverhead County (MT)

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

Cemeteries Near Dubois ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Dubois.

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

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

  • Camas North Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
  • Lidy Hot Springs Cemetery
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
  • New Kilgore Cemetery
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
  • Kilgore Cemetery
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Kilgore Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Kilgore Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Brooks Gravesite
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
  • West Jefferson Memorial Cemetery
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southwest)
  • Plano Cemetery
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Plano Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Plano Cemetery is located 7 miles [11.3 km]<4> to the southeast of Rexburg.
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #80611 <5>
  • Jones Family Cemetery
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
  • Parker Cemetery
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Parker Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Parker Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the north of Parker.
    • The Parker Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Parker Memorial Park
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #189538 <5>
  • Jenny Leigh Pioneer Cemetery
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Jenny Leigh Pioneer Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Jenny Leigh Pioneer Cemetery is located 5 miles [8 km]<4> to the east of Rexburg.
    • The Jenny Leigh Pioneer Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Beaver Dick Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #80408 <5>

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

Newspapers Published in the Vicinity of Dubois ...

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 12 newspapers that have been published in the area around Dubois.

We have organized these newspapers into two lists:

  • A Local Newspaper List - focusing on the papers published in the immediate area of Dubois. There are actually two parts to this list - papers printed in the immediate area of Dubois and those printed in the larger area surrounding Dubois.
  • An Extended Newspaper List - a longer list, sorted by paper name and containing those papers published within 30 miles [48.3 km] of Dubois.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we like to 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 Dubois:

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

The official website for State of Idaho: https://idaho.gov/

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- Dubois) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Dubois. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 44.1735, Longitude: -112.2306       In this case, the coordinates for Dubois 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>To help visualize the location of the cemetery, we've drawn a straight line between the communities of Mud Lake and Terreton. The cemetery can be found near that line and roughly halfway between the two communities. Remember that this is just an approximate location.




 

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