Minidoka County, Idaho Genealogy

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Parent County
1913--Minidoka County was created 28 January 1913 from Lincoln County. County seat: Rupert

Places/Localities
The following list of places includes incorporated cities and towns, unincorporated towns and communities, and place names that may have been used in family histories. Some have well-organized records and even have web sites. Some are simply social communities with no official records, but which may be referenced in small-town newspapers. The list is provided to help researchers identify localities within the county. As records or histories of these localities are identified, a page will be added for each of these place names.

This list of places in Minidoka County, Idaho was compiled from the Lists of Places in Idaho in Wikipedia and from the map of Minidoka County in Virtual Earth.

Populated Places

 * Cities: Burley | Heyburn | Minidoka | Paul | Rupert


 * Unincorporated Communities: Acequia | Adelaide | Amalga | Budge | Hynes | Max | Myers | Norland | Schow | Travers

Neighboring Counties
Blaine | Cassia | Jerome | Lincoln

Resources
Many of the older court, land, naturalization, probate, pension, and vital records for Minidoka County have been microfilmed and are available at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City and through their family history centers. They are also available at the Idaho State Historical Society's Library in Boise. Details of the county records in these respective institutions can be obtained from their online catalogs or listings. Original records which have been microfilmed and more recent records are in the county courthouse in Rupert.

Cemeteries
The following cemeteries of Minidoka County have some records in the Idaho State Historical Society Public Archives and Research Library:


 * Adelaide Congregational Cemetery - 2 m W of Adelaide (only 3 markers still visible)
 * Jackson Cemetery - N of Rupert
 * Minidoka - Acequia- Rupert Cem. (MAR Cem.) (Rupert Cem.) - 5 m N of Rupert (moved to present location in 1911)
 * Minidoka Cemetery (obliterated site - now used as a stock corral) - East side of Minidoka on a knoll
 * Paul Cemetery - 2 m N of Paul
 * Riverside Cemetery - Heyburn
 * Rosehill Cemetery (obliterated site) - few miles NW of Minidoka
 * Trinity Lutheran Church graveyard (obliterated site) - 14 m N of Rupert, .5 m SE of Adelaide siding

Census
For a summary of census records for the state of Idaho, see Idaho Census Records.

Church
The following are local congregations (wards) of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints which existed in Minidoka County, Idaho prior to 1950. Many of the original records of these church units are in the Historical Library in Salt Lake City. Many of the membership records covering these units from the date of their creation to about 1948 have been microfilmed and are available at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City.

Maps

 * A digital Minidoka County Idaho map is available online.

Military
World War I draft registration cards, 1917-1918, for Minidoka County have been microfilmed. Copies of these records are available at the Family History Library (their microfilm number 1452219) and are also available online at Ancestry.com, for a subscription fee. The original cards are maintained in the Southeast Regional Archives of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) in East Point, Georgia and have been microfilmed by the National Archives as their Microcopy M1509.

Pension Records
Mothers' Pensions were provided by the State of Idaho for widows and/or orphans, under certain conditions. Petitions for those pensions were filed with the probate court in each county. The original papers for several counties have been transferred to the Idaho State Historical Society Public Archives and Research Library (PARL) in Boise. Those at PARL have been indexed. Minidoka County Mothers' Pensions are included in that index.

Societies and Libraries
Minidoka County Historical Society and Museum

Web Sites

 * The Minidoka County ID GenWeb Project, a member of The IDGenWeb Project, an affiliate of The USGenWeb Project
 * Family History Library Catalog