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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 Kinport (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 Kinport. 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.

Kinport is located in Caribou 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 Caribou County: Bannock, Bear Lake, Bingham, Bonneville, Franklin & Lincoln (WY).

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

  • Caribou County     (The home county of Kinport)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Kinport, with the one closest to Kinport listed first.
    • Bancroft
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
    • Chesterfield ‑ Historic
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
      • Chesterfield is located in Caribou County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chesterfield
    • Five Points ‑ Historic
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
      • Five Points is located in Caribou County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Five Points
    • Grace
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Soda Springs
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
    • Conda
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
      • Conda is located in Caribou County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Conda
    • Bench
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
      • Bench is located in Caribou County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bench
  • Bannock County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Kinport, with the one closest to Kinport listed first.
    • Lava Hot Springs
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
    • McCammon
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
    • Inkom
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
    • Arimo
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Robin
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
      • Robin is located in Bannock County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Robin
    • Downey
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
    • Alameda
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
      • Alameda is located in Bannock County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alameda
    • Pocatello
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)
    • Chubbuck
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northwest)
    • Swanlake
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
  • Franklin County

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

Cemeteries Near Kinport ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Kinport.

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

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

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

  • Old Lund Pioneer Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the south)
  • Chesterfield Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the north)
  • Lava Hot Springs Cemetery
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lava Hot Springs Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Lava Hot Springs Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located less than 2 miles<3> to the south of Lava Hot Springs.
    • The Lava Hot Springs Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Lava Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #80537 <2>
  • Harkness Cemetery
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
  • Inkom Cemetery
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Inkom Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Inkom Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located less than 2 miles<3> to the northeast of Inkom.
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #80517 <2>
  • Norton Cemetery
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Norton Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Norton Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the south of McCammon.
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #292294 <2>
  • Arimo Cemetery
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
  • Grace Cemetery
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
  • Wilson Family Cemetery
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
  • Robin Cemetery
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Robin Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Robin Cemetery is located less than 2 miles<3> to the southwest of Robin.
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #80627 <2>
  • Marsh Center Cemetery
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
  • Cambridge Cemetery
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
  • Continue List   (17 more) ...

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 Kinport in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Kinport.

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

  • McCammon
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
  • Inkom
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
  • Downey
    (24 miles [38.6 km] to the south)
  • Manson
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Manson is located in Bear Lake County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Manson
  • Pocatello
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the west)

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

Newspapers Published in Kinport ...

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 15 newspapers that have been published in the area around Kinport.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Kinport, there are papers which were published within 27 miles [43.5 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Kinport.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we first turn to the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These 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 Kinport:

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' (or 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- Kinport) 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 Kinport, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.