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Introduction ...

So far, we found very little information about Level. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1>

We've added Level to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Level, please Contact Us.

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 Level (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 Level. 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 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.

Although our information shows that the community of Level is historic, it would have been located within present day Jefferson 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 Jefferson County: Bingham, Bonneville, Butte, Clark, Fremont & Madison.

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

  • Jefferson County     (The home county of Level)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Level, with the one closest to Level listed first.
    • Mud Lake
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the south)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Mud Lake have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mud Lake
      • Mud Lake is located in Jefferson County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 431 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Mud Lake <3>
    • Terreton
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Terreton have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Terreton
      • Terreton is located in Jefferson County
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Terreton <3>
    • Monteview
      (5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Monteview have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Monteview
      • Monteview is located in Jefferson County
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Monteview <3>
    • Hamer
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Hamer have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hamer
      • Hamer is located in Jefferson County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 103 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Hamer <3>
    • Roberts
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Roberts have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Roberts
      • Roberts is located in Jefferson County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 649 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Roberts <3>
    • Lewisville
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Lewisville have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lewisville
      • Lewisville is located in Jefferson County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 518 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Lewisville <3>
    • Menan
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Menan have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Menan
      • Menan is located in Jefferson County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 807 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Menan <3>
    • Annis
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Annis
      • Annis is located in Jefferson County
  • Butte County
    • Howe
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Howe have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Howe
      • Howe is located in Butte County
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Howe <3>
  • Clark County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Level, with the one closest to Level listed first.
    • Dubois
      (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Dubois have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dubois
      • Dubois is located in Clark County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 589 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Dubois <3>
    • Lone Pine
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lone Pine
      • Lone Pine is located in Clark County
  • Madison County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Level, with the one closest to Level listed first.
    • Plano
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Plano
      • Plano is located in Madison County
    • Edmonds
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the east)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Edmonds
      • Edmonds is located in Madison County

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

Newspapers Published in Level ...

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 6 newspapers that have been published in the area around Level.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Level, there are papers which were published within 23 miles [37 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Level.

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 helpful 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 Level:

Cemeteries Near Level ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Level.

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

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

  • Lidy Hot Springs Cemetery
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
  • Goddard Cemetery
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Goddard Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Goddard Cemetery
  • Howe Cemetery
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
  • John Day Cemetery
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the John Day Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the John Day Cemetery
  • Lewisville Cemetery
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Lewisville Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Lewisville Cemetery
  • Central Cemetery
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Central Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Central Cemetery
  • Annis Little Butte Cemetery
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Annis Little Butte Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located 3 miles [4.8 km]<4> to the south of Rigby.
    • The Annis Little Butte Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Little Butte Cemetery
    • Menan City Cemetery
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Annis Little Butte Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #155547 <5>
  • Plano Cemetery
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Plano Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Plano Cemetery
  • Marshall Bare Memorial Site
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for the Marshall Bare Memorial Site. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<6>
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Marshall Bare Memorial Site is located 3 miles [4.8 km]<4> to the northeast of Lone Pine.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Marshall Bare Memorial Site
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2455714 <5>

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.

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

  • Howe
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Howe have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Howe
    • Howe is located in Butte County
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Howe <3>

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

The official website for Jefferson County: www.co.jefferson.id.us/

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

Footnotes ...

<1>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 Level, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<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>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<4>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- Level) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Level. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 43.8957, Longitude: -112.4919       In this case, the coordinates for Level have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<5>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.
<6>An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace.




 

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