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Welcome to
Alturas
County, Idaho Genealogy and History
(A Defunct Idaho County)
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Welcome to Genealogy Trails
Volunteers working to put free
historical and genealogical data online
My
name is Sandra Davis and as
your Idaho State Coordinator
I try to post as much data online as possible in order to make it
freely available to all. We gratefully accept contributions of raw data
such as census information, marriage/birth/death records, obituaries,
county histories, biographies, old newspaper items - anything that
would help someone build their family tree!!
Feel free to email
me with your
contributions - every little bit helps someone!
I regret that I am unable to do personal
research.
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Constructed in
1883, this courthouse holds two unique distinctions among Idaho
courthouses. It is the oldest functioning courthouse in the State of
Idaho. It was constructed to serve Alturas County after the county seat
moved from Rocky Bar to Hailey. On March 5, 1895, the state legislature
combined Alturas and Logan Counties into Blaine County. This
structure no longer houses the court proceedings but houses the county
clerk, assesor's, etc offices. It is listed on the National Register of
Historic Places.
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A Little Bit of History
Alturas County
was a county in Idaho Territory and later the State of Idaho from 1864 to 1895. It
covered an area larger than the states of Maryland, New Jersey and
Delaware, combined. Most present-day southern Idaho counties were
created at least in part from the original Alturas County area. The
name Alturas comes from a Spanish word for "mountain summits" or
"mountainous heights."
Alturas County was
created by the Idaho Territorial Legislature in February 1864. Later
that year the mining camp of Rocky Bar was designated the county seat.
The county seat was moved to Hailey in 1882.
In 1889, the Idaho
Territorial Legislature created Elmore County and Logan
County from parts of Alturas County. On March 5, 1895, to circumvent a
recent state supreme court decision striking down an earlier county
reorganization, the Idaho Legislature combined Alturas and Logan
Counties into a new county called Blaine. Two weeks later on March 18,
the southern portion of the newly-created Blaine County was split off
to form Lincoln County with its county seat at Shoshone. Hailey remained the county
seat of what is now Blaine County and Alturas County disappeared from the Idaho map.
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A
wonderful source of genealogical information that is very useful are
cemetery headstones. They provide key data such as dates of birth,
marriage information and dates of death. To submit headstone
information please click
here.
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are one of the most important tools used by researchers in tracing
their family roots. Please consider contributing any obituary
information that you may have by submitting them here
and filling out the transmittal form.
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