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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 Hope (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 Hope. 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 southwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors were in the next county to the west. Almost all of the nearby churches and cemeteries were in the county to the south.

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 south 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.

Hope is located in Bonner 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 Bonner County: Boundary, Kootenai, Lincoln, Shoshone, Sanders (MT), Pend Oreille (WA) & Spokane (WA).

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

  • Bonner County     (The home county of Hope)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Hope, with the one closest to Hope listed first.
    • East Hope
      (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
      • East Hope is located in Bonner County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Hope
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 231 people
    • Boyer
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
      • Boyer is located in Bonner County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Boyer
    • Clark Fork
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Kootenai
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
    • Ponderay
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
    • Sandpoint
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
    • Algoma
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
      • Algoma is located in Bonner County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Algoma
    • Sagle
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
    • Dover
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
    • Colburn
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
    • Dufort
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
      • Dufort is located in Bonner County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dufort
    • Cabinet ‑ Historic
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
      • Cabinet is located in Bonner County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cabinet
  • Boundary County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Hope, with the one closest to Hope listed first.
    • Naples
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the north)
    • Boulder City ‑ Historic
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
      • Boulder City is located in Boundary County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Boulder City
    • Bonners Ferry
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
  • Kootenai County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Hope, with the one closest to Hope listed first.
    • Bayview
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Athol
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
    • Belmont
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
      • Belmont is located in Kootenai County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Belmont
  • Lincoln County (MT)
    • Troy
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northeast)
      • Troy is located in Lincoln County (MT)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Troy
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 982 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Troy <1>
  • Sanders County (MT)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Hope, with the one closest to Hope listed first.
    • Heron
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Smead ‑ Historic
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southeast)
      • Smead is located in Sanders County (MT)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Smead
    • Noxon
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)

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

Cemeteries Near Hope ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Hope.

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

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

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

  • Hope Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
  • Old Hope Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
  • Clark Fork Cemetery
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
  • Pack River Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pack River Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Pack River Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located 8 miles [12.9 km]<3> to the northeast of Sandpoint.
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #80594 <2>
  • Gold Creek Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
  • Lakeview Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lakeview Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Lakeview Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the southwest of Sandpoint.
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #80533 <2>
  • Pinecrest Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
  • Pinecrest Memorial Park
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the west)
  • Drake Cemetery
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
  • Westmond Cemetery
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
  • Cabinet Cemetery
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
  • Clara Cemetery
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
  • Continue List   (10 more) ...
    • Heron Cemetery
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Seneacquoteen Cemetery
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
    • Larchwood Cemetery
      (24 miles [38.6 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.<4>

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

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

  • Kootenai
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
  • Sandpoint
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
  • Cocolalla
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
  • Heron
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
  • Athol
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southwest)
  • Priest River
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
  • Noxon
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)

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

Newspapers Published in Hope ...

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 28 newspapers that have been published in the area around Hope.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Hope, there are papers which were published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Hope.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we like to 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 Hope:

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 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Hope) 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 Hope, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.