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Introduction ...

So far, we found very little information about Rocky Bar. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1>

We've added Rocky Bar to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Rocky Bar, please Contact Us.

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 Rocky Bar (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 Rocky Bar. 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 northwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most 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.

Although our information shows that the community of Rocky Bar is historic, it would have been located within present day Elmore 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 Elmore County: Ada, Boise, Camas, Gooding, Owyhee & Twin Falls.

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

  • Elmore County     (The home county of Rocky Bar)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Rocky Bar, with the one closest to Rocky Bar listed first.
    • Spanish Town ‑ Historic
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Spanish Town have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spanish Town
      • Spanish Town is located in Elmore County
    • Paradise Hot Springs
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Paradise Hot Springs
      • Paradise Hot Springs is located in Elmore County
    • Alturas City ‑ Historic
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the northeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Alturas City have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alturas City
      • Alturas City is located in Elmore County
    • Atlanta
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
    • Pine
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
    • Dixie
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dixie
      • Dixie is located in Elmore County
    • Reclamation Village
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Reclamation Village have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Reclamation Village
      • Reclamation Village is located in Elmore County
  • Blaine County
    • Sawtooth City
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Sawtooth City have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sawtooth City
      • Sawtooth City is located in Blaine County
  • Boise County
    • Idaho City
      (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Idaho City have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Idaho City
      • Idaho City is located in Boise County
      • Population from the 2020 Census: 480 people
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Idaho City <3>
  • Camas County
    • Hill City
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Hill City have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hill City
      • Hill City is located in Camas County
      • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Hill City <3>

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

Newspapers Published in Rocky Bar ...

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 13 newspapers that have been published in the area around Rocky Bar.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Rocky Bar, there are papers which were published within 28 miles [45.1 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Rocky Bar.

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 Rocky Bar:

Cemeteries Near Rocky Bar ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Rocky Bar.

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 Rocky Bar covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.

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

  • Pine Cemetery
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
  • Sawtooth Cemetery
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Sawtooth Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Sawtooth Cemetery
  • Corral Cemetery
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
  • Hill City Cemetery
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)
  • Boot Hill Cemetery
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Boot Hill Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Boot Hill Cemetery
  • Idaho City Pioneer Cemetery
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for the Idaho City Pioneer Cemetery have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Idaho City Pioneer Cemetery

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.

Rocky Bar itself is historic and was described in the Rand McNally Atlas as having a population of 42 people in 1895 with a post office and no railroad service.

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

  • Atlanta
    (11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
  • Pine
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
  • Graham ‑ Historic
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Graham have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Graham
    • Graham is located in Boise County
  • Banner
    (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Banner have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Banner
    • Banner is located in Boise County
  • Idaho City
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the west)
    • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Idaho City have been provided by the GNIS.<2> The coordinates still need to be verified.
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Idaho City
    • Idaho City is located in Boise County
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 480 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Idaho City <3>

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

The official website for Elmore County: www.elmorecounty.org/

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

Footnotes ...

<1>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 Rocky Bar, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<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>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<4>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Rocky Bar) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Rocky Bar. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 43.6888, Longitude: -115.2891    
<5>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.




 

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