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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 Holbrook (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 Holbrook. 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 northwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals were in the next county to the west. 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 west 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.

Holbrook is located in Oneida 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 Oneida County: Bannock, Cassia, Franklin, Power, Box Elder (UT) & Cache (UT).

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

  • Oneida County     (The home county of Holbrook)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Holbrook, with the one closest to Holbrook listed first.
    • Stone
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
    • Gwenford
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
      • Gwenford is located in Oneida County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gwenford
    • Pleasantview
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
      • Pleasantview is located in Oneida County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pleasantview
    • Samaria
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
      • Samaria is located in Oneida County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Samaria
    • Saint Johns
      (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
      • Saint Johns is located in Oneida County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saint Johns
    • Malad City
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
    • Cherry Creek
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
      • Cherry Creek is located in Oneida County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cherry Creek
    • Woodruff
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
      • Woodruff is located in Oneida County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Woodruff
  • Cassia County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Holbrook, with the one closest to Holbrook listed first.
    • Sublett
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
      • Sublett is located in Cassia County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sublett
    • Strevell ‑ Historic
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the west)
      • Strevell is located in Cassia County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Strevell
  • Power County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Holbrook, with the one closest to Holbrook listed first.
    • Arbon
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the north)
    • Pauline
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the north)
      • Pauline is located in Power County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pauline
    • Rockland
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
  • Box Elder County (UT)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Holbrook, with the one closest to Holbrook listed first.
    • Snowville
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
    • Blue Creek ‑ Historic
      (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
      • Blue Creek is located in Box Elder County (UT)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blue Creek
    • Portage
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
      • Portage is located in Box Elder County (UT)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Portage
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 274 people
    • Washakie
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
      • Washakie is located in Box Elder County (UT)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Washakie
    • Fort Malad ‑ Historic
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
      • Fort Malad is located in Box Elder County (UT)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fort Malad
    • Howell
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
      • Howell is located in Box Elder County (UT)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Howell
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 254 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Howell <1>
    • Portage Old Fort ‑ Historic
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
      • Portage Old Fort is located in Box Elder County (UT)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Portage Old Fort
    • Cedar Creek ‑ Historic
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southwest)
      • Cedar Creek is located in Box Elder County (UT)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cedar Creek

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

Cemeteries Near Holbrook ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Holbrook.

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 Holbrook - one of the links might be able to help.

If not found below, our Cemetery List for Holbrook covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.

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

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.<4>

While we didn't find Holbrook in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Holbrook.

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

  • Snowville
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
  • Samaria
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
    • Samaria is located in Oneida County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Samaria
  • Saint Johns
    (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
    • Saint Johns is located in Oneida County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saint Johns
  • Malad City
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
  • Cherry Creek
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
    • Cherry Creek is located in Oneida County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cherry Creek
  • Blue Creek ‑ Historic
    (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
    • Blue Creek is located in Box Elder County (UT)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blue Creek
  • Portage
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
    • Portage is located in Box Elder County (UT)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Portage
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 274 people
  • Washakie
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
    • Washakie is located in Box Elder County (UT)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Washakie
  • Sublett
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
    • Sublett is located in Cassia County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sublett

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

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 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 Holbrook:

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>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 drawn from Point A (ie- Holbrook) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<4>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 Holbrook, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.