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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 McCarthy (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 McCarthy. 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.

McCarthy is located in Shoshone 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 Shoshone County: Benewah, Bonner, Clearwater, Kootenai, Latah, Mineral (MT) & Sanders (MT).

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

  • Shoshone County     (The home county of McCarthy)
    • The following are listed by their distance from McCarthy, with the one closest to McCarthy listed first.
    • Woodland Park
      (Less than 2 miles to the southeast)
      • Woodland Park is located in Shoshone County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Woodland Park
    • Wallace
      (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
    • Frisco
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
      • Frisco is located in Shoshone County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Frisco
    • Silverton
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the west)
    • Carbon Center
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
      • Carbon Center is located in Shoshone County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Carbon Center
    • Burke ‑ Historic
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
      • Burke is located in Shoshone County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Burke
    • Osburn
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
    • Mullan
      (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
    • Larson
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
      • Larson is located in Shoshone County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Larson
    • Delta
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
      • Delta is located in Shoshone County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Delta
    • Murray
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
    • Wardner
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
    • Kellogg
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
  • Benewah County
    • Saint Joe
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southwest)
      • Saint Joe is located in Benewah County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saint Joe
  • Kootenai County
    • The following are listed by their distance from McCarthy, with the one closest to McCarthy listed first.
    • Cataldo
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
    • Canyon
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the west)
      • Canyon is located in Kootenai County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Canyon
    • Rose Lake
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
      • Rose Lake is located in Kootenai County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rose Lake
    • Lane
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
      • Lane is located in Kootenai County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Lane
  • Mineral County (MT)
    • The following are listed by their distance from McCarthy, with the one closest to McCarthy listed first.
    • East Portal ‑ Historic
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
      • East Portal is located in Mineral County (MT)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for East Portal
    • Saltese
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
    • Haugan
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
    • De Borgia
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
  • Sanders County (MT)
    • The following are listed by their distance from McCarthy, with the one closest to McCarthy listed first.
    • Thompson Falls
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
    • Trout Creek
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
    • Tuscor
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
      • Tuscor is located in Sanders County (MT)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Tuscor

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

Cemeteries Near McCarthy ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of McCarthy.

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

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

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

  • United Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
  • Miners Union Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
  • Murray Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
  • Greenwood Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
  • Dominion Peak Cemetery
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
  • Hunt Cemetery
    (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
  • Shoshone Memorial Gardens
    (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
  • Saltese Cemetery
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
  • Old Mission Cemetery
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
  • Rose Lake Cemetery
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the west)
  • Whitepine Trout Creek Cemetery
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
  • Fraternal Cemetery
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fraternal Cemetery
    • The Fraternal Cemetery has also been known as:
    • IOOF Cemetery
  • Continue List   (4 more) ...
    • Wild Rose Cemetery
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
    • De Borgia Cemetery
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
    • VFW Cemetery
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)

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.<3>

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

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

  • Wallace
    (Less than 2 miles to the southwest)
  • Frisco
    (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
    • Frisco is located in Shoshone County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Frisco
  • Burke ‑ Historic
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
    • Burke is located in Shoshone County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Burke
  • Osburn
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the west)
  • Mullan
    (5 miles [8 km] to the east)
  • Delta
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
    • Delta is located in Shoshone County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Delta
  • Murray
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the north)
  • Eagle
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
    • Eagle is located in Shoshone County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eagle
  • Wardner
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the west)
  • Borax
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
    • Borax is located in Mineral County (MT)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Borax
  • Kellogg
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
  • Enaville
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the west)
    • Enaville is located in Shoshone County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Enaville
  • Continue List   (8 more) ...

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

Newspapers Published in McCarthy ...

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 43 newspapers that have been published in the area around McCarthy.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of McCarthy, there are papers which were published within 27 miles [43.5 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for McCarthy.

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 McCarthy:

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>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 McCarthy, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<4>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- McCarthy) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.