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 Fenn (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 Fenn. 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 northeast 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 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 east 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.
Fenn is located in Idaho 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 Idaho County: Adams, Clearwater, Lemhi, Lewis, Nez Perce, Valley, Missoula (MT), Ravalli (MT) & Wallowa (OR).
Below are the counties that are near Fenn. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Fenn:
- Idaho County (The home county of Fenn)
- The following are listed by their distance from Fenn, with the one closest to Fenn listed first.
- Grangeville
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
- Cottonwood
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
- Greencreek
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
- Greencreek is located in Idaho County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greencreek
- Mount Idaho
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
- Mount Idaho is located in Idaho County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mount Idaho
- Keuterville
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
- Boles
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
- Boles is located in Idaho County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Boles
- Ferdinand
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
- Copperville
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
- Copperville is located in Idaho County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Copperville
- White Bird
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
- Stites
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the northeast)
- Kooskia
(18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
- Shells Lick
(18 miles [29 km] to the south)
- Shells Lick is located in Idaho County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shells Lick
- East Kamiah
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
- East Kamiah is located in Idaho County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Kamiah
- Clearwater County
- Greer
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
- Greer is located in Clearwater County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Greer
- Lewis County
- The following are listed by their distance from Fenn, with the one closest to Fenn listed first.
- Nezperce
(18 miles [29 km] to the north)
- Craigmont
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
- Winchester
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
- Reubens
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
- Reubens is located in Lewis County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Reubens
- Population from the 2020 Census: 68 people
- Ruebens
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
- Ruebens is located in Lewis County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ruebens
- Nez Perce County
- Chesley ‑ Historic
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
- Chesley is located in Nez Perce County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chesley
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Fenn, see our County-by-County Page for Fenn.
Cemeteries Near Fenn ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Fenn.
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 Fenn - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Fenn covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Fenn, with the one closest to Fenn listed first.
- Denver Cemetery
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the northeast)
- Prairie View Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
- Cottonwood Catholic Community Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
- Cottonwood Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
- Cottonwood Community Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
- Mt. Idaho Cemetery
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
- Fairview Cemetery
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
- St. Anthony Cemetery
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
- Canfield Cemetery
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
- Meadow Creek Cemetery
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
- Mt. Zion Cemetery
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
- Winona Cemetery
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
- Continue List (29 more) ...
- St. Maurus Cemetery
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
- Joseph Cemetery
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
- White Bird Cemetery
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the south)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for White Bird Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the White Bird Cemetery is located outside and to the southwest of White Bird.
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 Fenn in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Fenn.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Fenn, with the one closest to Fenn listed first.
- Grangeville
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
- Cottonwood
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
- Mount Idaho
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
- Mount Idaho is located in Idaho County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mount Idaho
- White Bird
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
- Clearwater
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
- Clearwater is located in Idaho County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clearwater
- Kooskia
(18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
- Glenwood
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
- Glenwood is located in Idaho County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Glenwood
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Fenn. See our List of 1890's Communities around Fenn.
Newspapers Published in Fenn ...
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 16 newspapers that have been published in the area around Fenn.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Fenn, there are papers which were published within 26 miles [41.8 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Fenn.
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 Fenn:
- Websites specific to Idaho
- Pages specific to Idaho County
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- Clearwater County
- Lewis County
- Nez Perce 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 Fenn, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |
| <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- Fenn) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |