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 Houston (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 Houston. 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 hospitals 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.
Houston is located in Custer 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 Custer County: Blaine, Boise, Butte, Elmore, Lemhi & Valley.
Below are the counties that are near Houston. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Houston:
- Custer County (The home county of Houston)
- The following are listed by their distance from Houston, with the one closest to Houston listed first.
- Alder City ‑ Historic
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
- Alder City is located in Custer County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alder City
- Mackay
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
- Lost River
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
- Lost River is located in Custer County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lost River
- Population from the 2010 Census: 68 people
- Dickey
(23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
- Dickey is located in Custer County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dickey
- Butte County
- The following are listed by their distance from Houston, with the one closest to Houston listed first.
- Moore
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
- Lost River
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
- Lost River is located in Butte County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lost River
- Arco
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
- Butte City
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
- Butte City is located in Butte County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Butte City
- Population from the 2020 Census: 69 people
- Howe
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Houston, see our County-by-County Page for Houston.
Cemeteries Near Houston ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Houston.
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 Houston - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Houston covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Houston, with the one closest to Houston listed first.
- Houston Cemetery
(Less than 2 miles to the south)
- Mt. McCaleb Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the northwest)
- Darlington Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
- Old Darlington Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southeast)
- Battleground Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the northwest)
- Pioneer Cemetery
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the southeast)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pioneer Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Pioneer Cemetery is located 3 miles [4.8 km]<3> to the northeast of Moore.
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2150015 <2>
- Antelope Cemetery
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
- Upper Antelope Cemetery
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
- Barton Cemetery
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
- Lost River Cemetery
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
- Chilly Cemetery
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
- Hillcrest Cemetery
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
- William Robert Johnson Gravesite
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
- Howe Cemetery
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
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>
The Rand McNally Atlas shows that Houston had a population of 110 people in 1895 with a post office and no railroad service.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Houston, with the one closest to Houston listed first.
- Leslie
(5 miles [8 km] to the east)
- Leslie is located in Custer County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Leslie
- Antelope ‑ Historic
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
- Antelope is located in Butte County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Antelope
- Lost River
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
- Lost River is located in Butte County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lost River
- Era
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
- Era is located in Butte County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Era
- Arco
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
- Dickey
(23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
- Dickey is located in Custer County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dickey
- Martin
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
- Martin is located in Butte County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Martin
- Howe
(29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Houston. See our List of 1890's Communities around Houston.
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 websites either 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 Houston:
- Websites specific to Idaho
- Pages specific to Custer County
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- Cemetery Information and Directories for Idaho
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 obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Houston) 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 Houston, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |