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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 Glenns Ferry (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 Glenns Ferry. 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.

Name Variations for Glenns Ferry ...

When searching records, keep in mind that names and their spelling can change over time. Our sources include documents like maps, railroad schedules, Travel, Express and Shipping Guides. Many of these documents date from the 1800's and it's common to find spelling differences.

Although we can't give a definitive list, hopefully the following will give you a feel for the variations that might have occurred.

  • A typical abbreviation for Glenns Ferry: Glenns Fry. (or less commonly used: Glenns Frry.)
  • While the name of this city is Glenns Ferry, be aware that it's the common practice of mapmakers to remove the apostrophe from possessive names<1>. So Glenns Ferry may originally have been Glenn's Ferry.

    Sometimes the trailing 's' might be dropped altogether, in which case Glenns Ferry might be written as Glenn Ferry.

If you have information about these names (such as the reason for the change, date of change, the origin of the name), please Contact Us.

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.

Glenns Ferry is located in Elmore 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 Elmore County: Ada, Boise, Camas, Gooding, Owyhee & Twin Falls.

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

  • Elmore County     (The home county of Glenns Ferry)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Glenns Ferry, with the one closest to Glenns Ferry listed first.
    • King Hill
      (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
    • Hammett
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the west)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Hammett have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hammett
      • Hammett is located in Elmore County
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Hammett <2>
    • Mountain Home
      (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Mountain Home have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mountain Home
      • Mountain Home is located in Elmore County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 14,526 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Mountain Home <2>
    • Dixie
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dixie
      • Dixie is located in Elmore County
    • Reclamation Village
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Reclamation Village have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Reclamation Village
      • Reclamation Village is located in Elmore County
  • Camas County
    • Hill City
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Hill City have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hill City
      • Hill City is located in Camas County
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Hill City <2>
  • Gooding County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Glenns Ferry, with the one closest to Glenns Ferry listed first.
    • Bliss
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Bliss have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bliss
      • Bliss is located in Gooding County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 312 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Bliss <2>
    • Hagerman
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Gooding
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
  • Owyhee County

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

Newspapers Published in Glenns Ferry ...

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 20 newspapers that have been published in the area around Glenns Ferry.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Glenns Ferry, there are papers which were published within 29 miles [46.7 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Glenns Ferry.

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 Glenns Ferry:

Cemeteries Near Glenns Ferry ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Glenns Ferry.

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

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

  • Bliss Family Cemetery
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
  • Pioneer Cemetery
    (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Pioneer Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Pioneer Cemetery
  • Hagerman Pioneer Cemetery
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
  • Hagerman Cemetery
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
  • Hot Springs Cemetery
    (23 miles [37 km] to the southwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Hot Springs Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Hot Springs Cemetery
  • Mountain View Cemetery
    (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Mountain View Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Mountain View Cemetery
  • Knighton Farm Cemetery
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
  • O X Cemetery
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
  • Hill City Cemetery
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)

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>

The Rand McNally Atlas shows that Glenns Ferry had a population of 333 people in 1895 with a post office and railroad service. In 2020, Glenns Ferry had a population of 1,295 people.

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

  • King Hill
    (5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
  • Reverse
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Reverse have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Reverse
    • Reverse is located in Elmore County
  • Bliss
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Bliss have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bliss
    • Bliss is located in Gooding County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 312 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Bliss <2>
  • Mountain Home
    (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Mountain Home have been provided by the GNIS.<3> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mountain Home
    • Mountain Home is located in Elmore County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 14,526 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Mountain Home <2>

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

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

The official website for Elmore County: www.elmorecounty.org/

The official website for State of Idaho: www.state.id.us/

Footnotes ...

<1>It's generally believed that possessive apostrophes are removed to prevent confusion on maps where the apostrophe may be confused with a cartographic symbol. While this is generally true, it's not uncommon to find possessive apostrophes in administrative names (such as towns or counties).
<2>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<3>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.
<4>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Glenns Ferry) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Glenns Ferry. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 42.9533, Longitude: -115.2999    
<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 Glenns Ferry, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.




 

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