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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 Lund (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 Lund. 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 northeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most 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.

Lund 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 Lund. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Lund:

  • Caribou County     (The home county of Lund)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Lund, with the one closest to Lund listed first.
    • Bancroft
      (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
    • Grace
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Bench
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
      • Bench is located in Caribou County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bench
    • Soda Springs
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
    • Chesterfield ‑ Historic
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
      • Chesterfield is located in Caribou County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chesterfield
    • Conda
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
      • Conda is located in Caribou County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Conda
    • Five Points ‑ Historic
      (23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
      • Five Points is located in Caribou County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Five Points
  • Bannock County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Lund, with the one closest to Lund listed first.
    • Lava Hot Springs
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
    • Arimo
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
    • McCammon
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
    • Downey
      (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
    • Robin
      (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
      • Robin is located in Bannock County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Robin
    • Inkom
      (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
    • Swanlake
      (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
  • Bear Lake County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Lund, with the one closest to Lund listed first.
    • Novene
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
      • Novene is located in Bear Lake County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Novene
    • Georgetown
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
  • Franklin County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Lund, with the one closest to Lund listed first.
    • Thatcher
      (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
    • Oxford
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
      • Oxford is located in Franklin County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oxford
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 52 people

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

Cemeteries Near Lund ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Lund.

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

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

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

  • Old Lund Pioneer Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the north)
  • Lava Hot Springs Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
    • 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>
  • Grace Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
  • Thatcher Cemetery
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
  • Chesterfield Cemetery
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
  • Arimo Cemetery
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
  • Old Presbyterian Cemetery
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the southeast)
  • Harkness Cemetery
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
  • Norton Cemetery
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
    • 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>
  • Cambridge Cemetery
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
  • Lago Cemetery
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
  • Marsh Center Cemetery
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
  • Continue List   (17 more) ...
    • Grant Cemetery
      (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
    • Robin Cemetery
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
      • 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>
    • Downey Cemetery
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)

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

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

  • McCammon
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
  • Downey
    (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
  • Manson
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
    • Manson is located in Bear Lake County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Manson
  • Inkom
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northwest)
  • Swanlake
    (23 miles [37 km] to the south)
  • Novene
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
    • Novene is located in Bear Lake County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Novene
  • Georgetown
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)

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

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 Lund:

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 obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Lund) 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 Lund, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.