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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 Tunupa (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 Tunupa. 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 southwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals were in the next county to the west. 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 west 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.

Tunupa is located in Lincoln 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 Lincoln County: Blaine, Camas, Gooding, Jerome & Minidoka.

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

  • Lincoln County     (The home county of Tunupa)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Tunupa, with the one closest to Tunupa listed first.
    • Shoshone
      (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
    • Dietrich
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
    • Besslen
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
      • Besslen is located in Lincoln County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Besslen
    • Richfield
      (22 miles [35.4 km] to the east)
  • Blaine County
    • Magic City
      (25 miles [40.2 km] to the northeast)
      • Magic City is located in Blaine County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Magic City
  • Camas County
    • Fairfield
      (29 miles [46.7 km] to the north)
  • Gooding County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Tunupa, with the one closest to Tunupa listed first.
    • Gooding
      (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
    • Wendell
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
    • Hagerman
      (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
    • Bliss
      (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
  • Jerome County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Tunupa, with the one closest to Tunupa listed first.
    • Jerome
      (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
    • Falls City
      (20 miles [32.2 km] to the southeast)
      • Falls City is located in Jerome County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Falls City
    • Eden
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the southeast)
  • Twin Falls County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Tunupa, with the one closest to Tunupa listed first.
    • Buhl
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
      • 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>
    • Filer
      (26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
      • 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>
    • Twin Falls
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the south)
    • Clover
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the south)
      • Clover is located in Twin Falls County
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clover

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

Cemeteries Near Tunupa ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Tunupa.

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

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

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

  • Pioneer Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
  • Elmwood Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elmwood Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Elmwood Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the southeast of Gooding.
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #80455 <2>
  • Pioneer Cemetery
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the west)
  • Shoshone Cemetery
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Shoshone Cemetery
    • To give a relative sense of its location, the Shoshone Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the east of Shoshone.
    • Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #386943 <2>
  • Wendell Cemetery
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
  • Dietrich Cemetery
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
  • Jerome Cemetery
    (16 miles [25.7 km] to the south)
    • 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 <2>
  • Hagerman Pioneer Cemetery
    (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
  • Hagerman Cemetery
    (18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
  • Upper Clover Creek Cemetery
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
  • Bliss Family Cemetery
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the west)
  • Chinese Memorial Cemetery
    (20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
  • Continue List   (9 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>

The Rand McNally Atlas shows that in 1895, Tunupa had railroad service and no post office.

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

  • Shoshone
    (8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
  • Bliss
    (18 miles [29 km] to the west)
  • Owinza
    (26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
    • Owinza is located in Lincoln County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Owinza
  • Pagari
    (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northeast)
    • Pagari is located in Lincoln County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pagari

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

Newspapers Published in Tunupa ...

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 41 newspapers that have been published in the area around Tunupa.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Tunupa, there are papers which were published within 27 miles [43.5 km]<3>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Tunupa.

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 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 Tunupa:

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- Tunupa) 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 Tunupa, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.