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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 Niter (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 Niter. 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.

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

  • Caribou County     (The home county of Niter)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Niter, with the one closest to Niter listed first.
    • Bench
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
      • Bench is located in Caribou County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bench
    • Grace
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
    • Soda Springs
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
    • Bancroft
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Conda
      (18 miles [29 km] to the northeast)
      • Conda is located in Caribou County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Conda
    • Chesterfield ‑ Historic
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
      • Chesterfield is located in Caribou County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chesterfield
  • Bannock County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Niter, with the one closest to Niter listed first.
    • Lava Hot Springs
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
    • Swanlake
      (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
    • Downey
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
    • Arimo
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the west)
    • McCammon
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Robin
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the west)
      • Robin is located in Bannock County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Robin
  • Bear Lake County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Niter, with the one closest to Niter listed first.
    • Novene
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
      • Novene is located in Bear Lake County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Novene
    • Georgetown
      (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
    • Bern
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Bennington
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
      • Bennington is located in Bear Lake County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bennington
    • Ovid
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
      • Ovid is located in Bear Lake County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ovid
    • Montpelier
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Paris
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
      • Paris is located in Bear Lake County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Paris
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 517 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Paris <1>
    • Bloomington
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
    • Wardboro
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
      • Wardboro is located in Bear Lake County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wardboro
    • Dingle
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
  • Franklin County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Niter, with the one closest to Niter listed first.
    • Thatcher
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
    • Oxford
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
      • Oxford is located in Franklin County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Oxford
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 52 people
    • Clifton
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Preston
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
    • Whitney
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
      • Whitney is located in Franklin County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Whitney
    • Dayton
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southwest)

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

Cemeteries Near Niter ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Niter.

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

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

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

  • Old Presbyterian Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southeast)
  • Grace Cemetery
    (3 miles [4.8 km] to the north)
  • Thatcher Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southwest)
  • Lago Cemetery
    (4 miles [6.4 km] to the south)
  • Cleveland Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
  • Old Lund Pioneer Cemetery
    (13 miles [20.9 km] to the northwest)
  • Skinner Cemetery
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
  • Nounan Cemetery
    (15 miles [24.1 km] to the east)
  • Treasureton Cemetery
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
  • Lava Hot Springs Cemetery
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the northwest)
    • 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>
  • Grant Cemetery
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
  • Swan Lake Cemetery
    (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
  • Continue List   (22 more) ...

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

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

  • Manson
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
    • Manson is located in Bear Lake County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Manson
  • Novene
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
    • Novene is located in Bear Lake County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Novene
  • Georgetown
    (18 miles [29 km] to the east)
  • Swanlake
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southwest)
  • Liberty
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the southeast)
    • Liberty is located in Bear Lake County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Liberty
  • Downey
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
  • Ovid
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Ovid is located in Bear Lake County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ovid
  • Paris
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Paris is located in Bear Lake County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Paris
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 517 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Paris <1>
  • Montpelier
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
  • McCammon
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
  • Bloomington
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
  • Preston
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)

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

Newspapers Published in Niter ...

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 20 newspapers that have been published in the area around Niter.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Niter, there are papers which were published within 28 miles [45.1 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Niter.

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 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 Niter:

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