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 Junction (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 Junction. 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 and 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.

Junction is located in Lemhi 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 Lemhi County: Butte, Clark, Custer, Idaho, Valley, Beaverhead (MT) & Ravalli (MT).

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

• Lemhi County     (The home county of Junction)
  • The following are listed by their distance from Junction, with the one closest to Junction listed first.
  • Leadore
    (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Leadore
    • Leadore is located in Lemhi County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 107 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Leadore <1>
  • Lemhi
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Lemhi have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lemhi
    • Lemhi is located in Lemhi County
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Lemhi <1>
  • Patterson
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Patterson
    • Patterson is located in Lemhi County
  • Tendoy
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tendoy
    • Tendoy is located in Lemhi County
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Tendoy <1>
  • May
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for May have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for May
    • May is located in Lemhi County
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for May <1>

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

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 Junction:

• Websites specific to Idaho
  • Jump to Cyndi's List
  • Jump to Family Search
  • Jump to Genealogy Trails
  • Website for the //history.idaho.gov/idaho-state-archives

• Pages specific to Lemhi County
  • Jump to Cyndi's List
  • Jump to Family Search
  • Jump to Genealogy Trails

• Genealogy information for nearby counties

• Cemetery Information and Directories for Idaho
  • Cemetery Junction: Cemeteries of Idaho
  • Cyndi's List
  • Cemeteries of Idaho
  • Cemeteries of Lemhi County
  • FamilySearch.org: Cemeteries of Idaho
  • Find-A-Grave: Home Page
  • Interment.net
  • Cemeteries of Idaho
  • Cemeteries of Lemhi County

Cemeteries Near Junction ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Junction.

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

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

• Junction Cemetery
  (Less than 2 miles to the north)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Junction Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Junction Cemetery
• McRea Cemetery
  (Less than 2 miles to the east)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the McRea Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the McRea Cemetery
• Chief Tendoy Gravesite
  (20 miles [32.2 km] to the northwest)
  • To give a relative sense of its location, the Chief Tendoy Gravesite is located outside and to the southeast of Tendoy.
  • The Chief Tendoy Gravesite has also been known as:
  • Chief Tendoy Burial Ground
  • Chief Tendoy Cemetery
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Chief Tendoy Gravesite
  • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #80431 <3>

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 Junction had a population of 83 people in 1895 with a post office and no railroad service.

• Nicholia
  (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
  • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Nicholia have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Nicholia
  • Nicholia is located in Lemhi County

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

Off-the-Road Links ...

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

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