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 Indian Jim Place (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 Indian Jim Place. 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 Indian Jim Place ...

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 have occurred.

For example, a typical abbreviation for Indian Jim Place: Indian Jim Pl. (or less commonly used: Indian Jim Plc.)

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 southwest corner of their home county. During their lives, most doctors and 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.

Indian Jim Place is located in Twin Falls 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 Twin Falls County: Cassia, Elmore, Gooding, Jerome, Owyhee & Elko (NV).

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

Twin Falls County (The home county of Indian Jim Place)
- The following are listed by their distance from Indian Jim Place, with the one closest to Indian Jim Place listed first.
- Rogerson
  (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
  - Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Rogerson have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  - Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rogerson
  - Rogerson is located in Twin Falls County
  - Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Rogerson <2>
- Idavada ‑ Historic
  (18 miles [29 km] to the southeast)
  - Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Idavada
  - Idavada is located in Twin Falls County
- Hollister
  (21 miles [33.8 km] to the northeast)
  - Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Hollister have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  - Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hollister
  - Hollister is located in Twin Falls County
  - Population from the 2020 Census: 322 people
- Castleford
  (24 miles [38.6 km] to the north)
  - Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Castleford have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  - Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Castleford
  - Castleford is located in Twin Falls County
  - Population from the 2020 Census: 251 people
  - Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Castleford <2>
- Clover
  (26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
  - Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clover
  - Clover is located in Twin Falls County
- Buhl
  (30 miles [48.3 km] to the north)
  - Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Buhl
  - Buhl is located in Twin Falls County
  - Population from the 2020 Census: 4,524 people
  - Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Buhl <2>
Owyhee County
- Three Creek
  (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
  - Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Three Creek
  - Three Creek is located in Owyhee County
Elko County (NV)
- The following are listed by their distance from Indian Jim Place, with the one closest to Indian Jim Place listed first.
- Jackpot
  (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southeast)
  - Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jackpot
  - Jackpot is located in Elko County (NV)
  - Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Jackpot <2>
- Delaplain ‑ Historic
  (21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
  - Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Delaplain have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  - Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Delaplain
  - Delaplain is located in Elko County (NV)
- San Jacinto
  (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
  - Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for San Jacinto have been provided by the GNIS.<1> The coordinates still need to be verified.
  - Jump to our Gazetteer entry for San Jacinto
  - San Jacinto is located in Elko County (NV)
- Contact ‑ Historic
  (28 miles [45.1 km] to the south)
  - Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Contact
  - Contact is located in Elko County (NV)

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

Newspapers Published in Indian Jim Place ...

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 1 newspapers that have been published in the area around Indian Jim Place.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Indian Jim Place, 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 Indian Jim Place.

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 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 Indian Jim Place:

Websites specific to Idaho
- Jump to Cyndi's List
- Jump to Family Search
- Jump to Genealogy Trails
- Website for the //history.idaho.gov/idaho-state-archives

Pages specific to Twin Falls County
- Jump to Cyndi's List
- Jump to Family Search
- Jump to Genealogy Trails

Genealogy information for nearby counties
- Owyhee County
  - Jump to Cyndi's List
  - Jump to Family Search
  - Jump to Genealogy Trails
- Elko County
  - Jump to Cyndi's List
  - Jump to Family Search
  - Jump to Genealogy Trails

Cemetery Information and Directories for Idaho
- Cemetery Junction: Cemeteries of Idaho
- Cyndi's List
- Cemeteries of Idaho
- Cemeteries of Twin Falls County
- FamilySearch.org: Cemeteries of Idaho
- Find-A-Grave: Home Page
- Interment.net
- Cemeteries of Idaho
- Cemeteries of Twin Falls County

Cemeteries Near Indian Jim Place ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Indian Jim Place.

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 Indian Jim Place covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.

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

Walton - Gumm Cemetery
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the northeast)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Walton - Gumm Cemetery
Clover Lutheran Cemetery
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northeast)
- The Clover Lutheran Cemetery has also been known as:
- Clover Trinity Lutheran Church Cemetery
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for the Clover Lutheran 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.<4>

While we didn't find Indian Jim Place in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of Indian Jim Place.

Three Creek
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Three Creek
- Three Creek is located in Owyhee County

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

Off-the-Road Links ...

Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Indian Jim Place. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.

The official website for Twin Falls County: www.twinfallscounty.org/

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

Footnotes ...

<1>	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.
<2>	While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<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- Indian Jim Place) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Indian Jim Place. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 42.1677, Longitude: -114.9137 In this case, the coordinates for Indian Jim Place have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).
<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 Indian Jim Place, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.