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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 Rock Creek (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 Rock Creek. 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 Rock Creek ...

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 occur.

Another variation: Rockcreek.

  • A typical abbreviation for Rock Creek: Rock Crk. (or less commonly used: Rock Ck. or Rock Cr.)

You might be interested in other communities that are also named Rock Creek. More information can be found on our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Rock Creek.

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 northwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and doctors were in the next county to the west. 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 west 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.

Rock Creek is located in Twin Falls 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 Twin Falls County: Cassia, Elmore, Gooding, Jerome, Owyhee & Elko (NV).

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

  • Twin Falls County     (The home county of Rock Creek)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Rock Creek, with the one closest to Rock Creek listed first.
    • Hansen
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
      • Hansen is located in Twin Falls County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hansen
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,290 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Hansen <1>
    • Kimberly
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
    • Murtaugh
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the northeast)
    • Twin Falls
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the northwest)
    • Hollister
      (15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
      • Hollister is located in Twin Falls County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hollister
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 322 people
    • Filer
      (18 miles [29 km] to the northwest)
      • Filer is located in Twin Falls County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Filer
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 2,939 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Filer <1>
    • Rogerson
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southwest)
    • Clover
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
      • Clover is located in Twin Falls County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clover
    • Buhl
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
      • Buhl is located in Twin Falls County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buhl
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 4,524 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Buhl <1>
    • Castleford
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
  • Cassia County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Rock Creek, with the one closest to Rock Creek listed first.
    • Artesian City ‑ Historic
      (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
      • Artesian City is located in Cassia County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Artesian City
    • Marion
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
      • Marion is located in Cassia County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Marion
    • Pella
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the east)
      • Pella is located in Cassia County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pella
    • Oakley
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
    • Burley
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the east)
    • Basin
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Basin is located in Cassia County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Basin
  • Jerome County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Rock Creek, with the one closest to Rock Creek listed first.
    • Eden
      (12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
    • Hazelton
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
    • Falls City
      (18 miles [29 km] to the north)
      • Falls City is located in Jerome County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Falls City
    • Jerome
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
  • Minidoka County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Rock Creek, with the one closest to Rock Creek listed first.
    • Heyburn
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the east)
    • Paul
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the northeast)
      • Paul is located in Minidoka County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Paul
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,464 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Paul <1>

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

Cemeteries Near Rock Creek ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Rock Creek.

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 Rock Creek - one of the links might be able to help.

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

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

  • Rock Creek Cemetery
    (Less than 2 miles to the north)
  • Bower Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the east)
  • Artesian City Cemetery
    (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
  • Trinity Lutheran Church Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
  • Twin Falls Cemetery
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
  • Sunset Memorial Park
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northwest)
  • Hazelton Cemetery
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hazelton Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Hazelton Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the northeast of Hazelton.
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #1976931 <3>
  • Ira Burton Perrine Cemetery
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northwest)
  • IOOF Cemetery
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
  • Clover Lutheran Cemetery
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clover Lutheran Cemetery
    • The Clover Lutheran Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Clover Trinity Lutheran Church Cemetery
  • Marion Cemetery
    (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Marion Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Marion Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located 3 miles [4.8 km]<2> to the northwest of Oakley.
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #80551 <3>
  • Pella Cemetery
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pella Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Pella Cemetery is located less than 2 miles<2> to the west of Pella.
    • The Pella Cemetery has also been known as:
    • Pella Ward Cemetery
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #80600 <3>
  • Continue List   (7 more) ...
    • Jerome Cemetery
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jerome Cemetery
      • To give a relative sense of its location, the Jerome Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the southwest of Jerome.
      • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #663068 <3>
    • West End Cemetery
      (24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
    • Gem Memorial Gardens
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Gem Memorial Gardens
      • To give a relative sense of its location, the Gem Memorial Gardens is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the south of Burley.
      • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #1186675 <3>

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

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

  • Marion
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
    • Marion is located in Cassia County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Marion
  • Oakley
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
  • Basin
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
    • Basin is located in Cassia County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Basin

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

Newspapers Published in Rock Creek ...

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 40 newspapers that have been published in the area around Rock Creek.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Rock Creek, there are papers which were published within 27 miles [43.5 km]<2>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Rock Creek.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we begin with 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 Rock Creek:

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>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 drawn from Point A (ie- Rock Creek) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'.
<3>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.
<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 Rock Creek, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.