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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 Gay (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 Gay. 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.

Gay is located in Bingham 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 Bingham County: Bannock, Blaine, Bonneville, Butte, Caribou, Jefferson & Power.

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

  • Bingham County     (The home county of Gay)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Gay, with the one closest to Gay listed first.
    • Blackfoot
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Blackfoot have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blackfoot
      • Blackfoot is located in Bingham County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 12,025 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Blackfoot <2>
    • Wapello
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wapello
      • Wapello is located in Bingham County
    • Collins
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Collins
      • Collins is located in Bingham County
    • Fort Hall
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Fort Hall have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fort Hall
      • Fort Hall is located in Bingham County
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Fort Hall <2>
    • Basalt
      (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Basalt have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Basalt
      • Basalt is located in Bingham County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 411 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Basalt <2>
    • Firth
      (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Firth have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Firth
      • Firth is located in Bingham County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 501 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Firth <2>
    • Riverside
      (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Riverside
      • Riverside is located in Bingham County
    • Moreland
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Moreland have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Moreland
      • Moreland is located in Bingham County
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Moreland <2>
    • Aberdeen Junction
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Aberdeen Junction
      • Aberdeen Junction is located in Bingham County
    • Shelley
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Shelley have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shelley
      • Shelley is located in Bingham County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 4,652 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Shelley <2>
    • Liberty
      (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Liberty
      • Liberty is located in Bingham County
    • Pingree
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Pingree have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pingree
      • Pingree is located in Bingham County
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Pingree <2>
    • Woodville
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the north)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Woodville
      • Woodville is located in Bingham County
  • Bannock County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Gay, with the one closest to Gay listed first.
    • Inkom
      (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Inkom have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Inkom
      • Inkom is located in Bannock County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 910 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Inkom <2>
    • Chubbuck
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
    • Alameda
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alameda
      • Alameda is located in Bannock County
    • Pocatello
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
    • McCammon
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for McCammon have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McCammon
      • McCammon is located in Bannock County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 833 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for McCammon <2>
    • Lava Hot Springs
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Lava Hot Springs have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lava Hot Springs
      • Lava Hot Springs is located in Bannock County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 431 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Lava Hot Springs <2>
  • Bonneville County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Gay, with the one closest to Gay listed first.
    • Taylorville
      (23 miles [37 km] to the north)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Taylorville
      • Taylorville is located in Bonneville County
    • Bone
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bone
      • Bone is located in Bonneville County
    • Ozone
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Ozone. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ozone
      • Ozone is located in Bonneville County
    • Ammon
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Ammon have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ammon
      • Ammon is located in Bonneville County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 17,726 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Ammon <2>
    • Idaho Falls
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
  • Caribou County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Gay, with the one closest to Gay listed first.
    • Five Points ‑ Historic
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Five Points
      • Five Points is located in Caribou County
    • Chesterfield ‑ Historic
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chesterfield
      • Chesterfield is located in Caribou County
    • Bancroft
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Bancroft have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bancroft
      • Bancroft is located in Caribou County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 395 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Bancroft <2>
  • Power County
    • Michaud
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Michaud
      • Michaud is located in Power County

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

Newspapers Published in Gay ...

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 39 newspapers that have been published in the area around Gay.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Gay, 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 Gay.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we first turn to the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These 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 Gay:

Cemeteries Near Gay ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Gay.

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

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

  • Ross Fork Cemetery #3
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
  • Ross Fork Cemetery #2
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
  • Ross Fork Cemetery #1
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the west)
  • Wilson Family Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
  • Grove City Cemetery
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Grove City Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Grove City Cemetery
  • Gibson Cemetery
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Gibson Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Gibson Cemetery
  • Good Shepherd Cemetery
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Good Shepherd Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Good Shepherd Cemetery
  • Inkom Cemetery
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Inkom Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located less than 2 miles<4> to the southwest of Inkom.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Inkom Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #80517 <5>
  • Chesterfield Cemetery
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
  • Riverview Cemetery
    (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Riverview Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Riverview Cemetery
  • Groveland Cemetery
    (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Groveland Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Groveland Cemetery
  • Basalt Cemetery
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Basalt Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Basalt Cemetery
  • Continue List   (16 more) ...
    • Mountain View Cemetery
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
      • To give a relative sense of its location, the Mountain View Cemetery is a very large cemetery that is located outside and to the southeast of Pocatello.
      • The Mountain View Cemetery has also been known as:
      • Mt. Moriah Cemetery
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Mountain View Cemetery
      • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #80577 <5>
    • Restlawn Memorial Gardens
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Hillcrest Cemetery
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Hillcrest Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Hillcrest Cemetery

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

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

  • Blackfoot
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Blackfoot have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blackfoot
    • Blackfoot is located in Bingham County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 12,025 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Blackfoot <2>
  • Inkom
    (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Inkom have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Inkom
    • Inkom is located in Bannock County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 910 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Inkom <2>
  • Basalt
    (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Basalt have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Basalt
    • Basalt is located in Bingham County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 411 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Basalt <2>
  • Pocatello
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
  • McCammon
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for McCammon have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for McCammon
    • McCammon is located in Bannock County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 833 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for McCammon <2>

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

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

The official website for Bingham County: www.co.bingham.id.us/

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 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Gay) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Gay. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 43.0483, Longitude: -112.1183       In this case, the coordinates for Gay 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 Gay, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.




 

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