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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 Lower Black Butte Crossing (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 Lower Black Butte Crossing. 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.

Name Variations for Lower Black Butte Crossing ...

When searching records, keep in mind that names and their spelling can change over time. Our sources include documents like maps, railroad schedules, Travel, Express and Shipping Guides. Many of these documents date from the 1800's and it's common to find spelling differences.

Although we can't give a definitive list, hopefully the following will give you a feel for the variations that might have occurred.

For example, a typical abbreviation for Lower Black Butte Crossing: Lower Black Butte Xing.

If you have information about these names (such as the reason for the change, date of change, the origin of the name), please Contact Us.

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 northeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and doctors were in the next county to the east. Almost all of the nearby churches and cemeteries were in the county to the north.

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 north 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.

Lower Black Butte Crossing is located in Owyhee 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 Owyhee County: Ada, Canyon, Elmore, Twin Falls, Elko (NV), Humboldt (NV) & Malheur (OR).

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

  • Owyhee County     (The home county of Lower Black Butte Crossing)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Lower Black Butte Crossing, with the one closest to Lower Black Butte Crossing listed first.
    • Bruneau
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the northwest)
    • Buncel Place ‑ Historic
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buncel Place
      • Buncel Place is located in Owyhee County
  • Elmore County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Lower Black Butte Crossing, with the one closest to Lower Black Butte Crossing listed first.
    • Hammett
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Hammett have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hammett
      • Hammett is located in Elmore County
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Hammett <1>
    • Glenns Ferry
      (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
    • King Hill
      (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
    • Mountain Home
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Mountain Home have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Mountain Home
      • Mountain Home is located in Elmore County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 14,526 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Mountain Home <1>
  • Gooding County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Lower Black Butte Crossing, with the one closest to Lower Black Butte Crossing listed first.
    • Hagerman
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
    • Bliss
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Bliss have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bliss
      • Bliss is located in Gooding County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 312 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Bliss <1>

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

Newspapers Published in Lower Black Butte Crossing ...

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 Lower Black Butte Crossing.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Lower Black Butte Crossing, there are papers which were published within 30 miles [48.3 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Lower Black Butte Crossing.

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 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 Lower Black Butte Crossing:

Cemeteries Near Lower Black Butte Crossing ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Lower Black Butte Crossing.

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 Lower Black Butte Crossing covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Lower Black Butte Crossing, with the one closest to Lower Black Butte Crossing listed first.

  • Hot Springs Cemetery
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Hot Springs Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Hot Springs Cemetery
  • Knighton Farm Cemetery
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
  • O X Cemetery
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
  • Stone Cemetery
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Stone Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Stone Cemetery
  • Hagerman Pioneer Cemetery
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the east)
  • Bliss Family Cemetery
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)

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.<5>

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

These communities are listed based on their distance from Lower Black Butte Crossing, with the one closest to Lower Black Butte Crossing listed first.

  • Glenns Ferry
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northeast)
  • Reverse
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Reverse have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Reverse
    • Reverse is located in Elmore County
  • King Hill
    (23 miles [37 km] to the northeast)
  • Bliss
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Bliss have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bliss
    • Bliss is located in Gooding County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 312 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Bliss <1>

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

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

The official website for Owyhee County: www.owyheecounty.net/

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

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>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a '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- Lower Black Butte Crossing) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Lower Black Butte Crossing. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 42.7285, Longitude: -115.4753       In this case, the coordinates for Lower Black Butte Crossing have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<4>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.
<5>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 Lower Black Butte Crossing, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.




 

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