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 Cairo (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 Cairo. 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 northeast 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 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 east 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.
Cairo is located in Malheur County.
To see how the shape of Oregon's counties may have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Malheur County: Canyon (ID), Owyhee (ID), Payette (ID), Washington (ID), Humboldt (NV), Baker, Grant & Harney.
Below are the counties that are near Cairo. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Cairo:
- Malheur County (The home county of Cairo)
- The following are listed by their distance from Cairo, with the one closest to Cairo listed first.
- Ontario
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
- Nyssa
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
- Vale
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
- Owyhee
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
- Owyhee is located in Malheur County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Owyhee
- Adrian
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
- Jamieson
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the northwest)
- Brogan
(30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
- Baker County
- Huntington
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
- Canyon County (ID)
- The following are listed by their distance from Cairo, with the one closest to Cairo listed first.
- Apple Valley
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
- Apple Valley is located in Canyon County (ID)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Apple Valley
- Parma
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
- Roswell
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
- Roswell is located in Canyon County (ID)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Roswell
- Sand Hollow
(18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
- Sand Hollow is located in Canyon County (ID)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sand Hollow
- Notus
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
- Wilder
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
- Greenleaf
(24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
- Weitz
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
- Weitz is located in Canyon County (ID)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Weitz
- Caldwell
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
- Middleton
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
- Huston
(28 miles [45.1 km] to the southeast)
- Gem County (ID)
- The following are listed by their distance from Cairo, with the one closest to Cairo listed first.
- Letha
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the east)
- Bramwell
(23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
- Bramwell is located in Gem County (ID)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bramwell
- Emmett
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
- Owyhee County (ID)
- Homedale
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the south)
- Payette County (ID)
- The following are listed by their distance from Cairo, with the one closest to Cairo listed first.
- Fruitland
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the east)
- Buckingham
(5 miles [8 km] to the east)
- Buckingham is located in Payette County (ID)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buckingham
- Washoe
(5 miles [8 km] to the northeast)
- Washoe is located in Payette County (ID)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Washoe
- Payette
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
- New Plymouth
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
- Washington County (ID)
- The following are listed by their distance from Cairo, with the one closest to Cairo listed first.
- Weiser
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
- Weiser is located in Washington County (ID)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Weiser
- Population from the 2020 Census: 5,463 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Weiser <1>
- Eaton
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
- Eaton is located in Washington County (ID)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Eaton
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Cairo, see our County-by-County Page for Cairo.
Cemeteries Near Cairo ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Cairo.
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 Cairo - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for Cairo covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Cairo, with the one closest to Cairo listed first.
- Evergreen Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
- St. Johns Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
- Washoe Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
- Riverside Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northeast)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Riverside Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Riverside Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located outside and to the north of Payette (ID).
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #80623 <2>
- Nyssa Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
- Parkview Cemetery
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the east)
- Kennedy Cemetery
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
- Pioneer Cemetery
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
- Valley View Cemetery
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
- Owyhee Cemetery
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
- Parma Cemetery
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
- Falk Cemetery
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
- Continue List (19 more) ...
- Fairview Cemetery
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the north)
- Roswell Cemetery
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
- Lower Boise Cemetery
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
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 Cairo in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Cairo.
These communities are listed based on their distance from Cairo, with the one closest to Cairo listed first.
- Ontario
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
- Payette
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the northeast)
- Nyssa
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the south)
- Vale
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the west)
- Owyhee
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
- Owyhee is located in Malheur County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Owyhee
- Parma
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the south)
- Weiser
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the north)
- Weiser is located in Washington County (ID)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Weiser
- Population from the 2020 Census: 5,463 people
- Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Weiser <1>
- Notus
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
- Dell ‑ Historic
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the northwest)
- Dell is located in Malheur County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dell
- Caldwell
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
- Middleton
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
- Huntington
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Cairo. See our List of 1890's Communities around Cairo.
Newspapers Published in Cairo ...
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 65 newspapers that have been published in the area around Cairo.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Cairo, 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 Cairo.
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 Cairo:
- Websites specific to Oregon
- Pages specific to Malheur County
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- Baker County
- Canyon County
- Gem County
- Owyhee County
- Payette County
- Washington County
- Cemetery Information and Directories for Oregon
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 Cairo, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |
| <4> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Cairo) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |