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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 Highbridge (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 Highbridge. 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.

Highbridge is located in Clark 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 Clark County: Butte, Fremont, Jefferson, Lemhi & Beaverhead (MT).

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

  • Clark County     (The home county of Highbridge)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Highbridge, with the one closest to Highbridge listed first.
    • Spencer
      (5 miles [8 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>
    • Dubois
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Dubois have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dubois
      • Dubois is located in Clark County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 589 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Dubois <2>
    • Kilgore
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kilgore
      • Kilgore is located in Clark County
  • Fremont County
    • Egin
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Egin
      • Egin is located in Fremont County
  • Jefferson County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Highbridge, with the one closest to Highbridge listed first.
    • Hamer
      (24 miles [38.6 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
      (26 miles [41.8 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>
  • Madison County
    • Edmonds
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Edmonds
      • Edmonds is located in Madison County
  • Beaverhead County (MT)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Highbridge, with the one closest to Highbridge listed first.
    • Monida
      (19 miles [30.6 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)
    • Lakeview
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lakeview
      • Lakeview is located in Beaverhead County (MT)
    • Lima
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Lima have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lima
      • Lima is located in Beaverhead County (MT)
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 227 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Lima <2>

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

Cemeteries Near Highbridge ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Highbridge.

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

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

  • New Kilgore Cemetery
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
  • Kilgore Cemetery
    (15 miles [24.1 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
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
  • Camas North Cemetery
    (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
  • Lidy Hot Springs Cemetery
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
  • Lakeview Cemetery
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)

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

Newspapers Published in Highbridge ...

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 Highbridge.

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

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 helpful 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 Highbridge:

Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Highbridge. 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' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Highbridge) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Highbridge. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 44.2832, Longitude: -112.2125       In this case, the coordinates for Highbridge 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.




 

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This page was last modified/updated: 28 Apr 2025