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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 Last Chance (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 Last Chance. 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 southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors and hospitals were in the next county to the east. 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 east 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.

Last Chance is located in Fremont 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 Fremont County: Clark, Jefferson, Madison, Teton, Beaverhead (MT), Gallatin (MT), Madison (MT) & Teton (WY).

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

  • Fremont County     (The home county of Last Chance)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Last Chance, with the one closest to Last Chance listed first.
    • Box Canyon
      (Less than 2 miles to the north)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Box Canyon
      • Box Canyon is located in Fremont County
    • Macks Inn
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
    • Island Park
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Island Park have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Island Park
      • Island Park is located in Fremont County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 260 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Island Park <1>
    • Warm River
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Warm River
      • Warm River is located in Fremont County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 3 people
    • Ashton
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
    • Marysville
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Marysville
      • Marysville is located in Fremont County
    • Squirrel
      (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Squirrel have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Squirrel
      • Squirrel is located in Fremont County
    • Drummond
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the south)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Drummond have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Drummond
      • Drummond is located in Fremont County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 16 people
    • Chester
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
  • Clark County
    • Kilgore
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kilgore
      • Kilgore is located in Clark County
  • Beaverhead County (MT)
    • Lakeview
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lakeview
      • Lakeview is located in Beaverhead County (MT)
  • Gallatin County (MT)
    • West Yellowstone
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for West Yellowstone have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for West Yellowstone
      • West Yellowstone is located in Gallatin County (MT)
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,372 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for West Yellowstone <1>

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

Cemeteries Near Last Chance ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Last Chance.

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

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

  • Targhee Cemetery
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
  • Pineview Cemetery
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
  • Shults Cemetery
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the south)
  • Squirrel Cemetery
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
  • Brooks Gravesite
    (23 miles [37 km] to the west)
  • Kilgore Cemetery
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Kilgore Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Kilgore Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Chester Cemetery
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Chester Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Chester Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • Farnum Cemetery
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Farnum Cemetery
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Farnum Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  • New Kilgore Cemetery
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
  • Lakeview Cemetery
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)

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

Newspapers Published in Last Chance ...

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 1 newspapers that have been published in the area around Last Chance.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Last Chance, there are papers which were published within 25 miles [40.2 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Last Chance.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we begin 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 Last Chance:

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

The official website for Fremont County: www.co.fremont.id.us/

The official website for State of Idaho: https://idaho.gov/

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 location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required.
<3>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.
<4>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- Last Chance) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Last Chance. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 44.3666, Longitude: -111.4022       In this case, the coordinates for Last Chance have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).




 

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This page was last modified/updated: 28 Apr 2025