History and Genealogy
for
Clearwater County, Idaho
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Clearwater County was established on February 27, 1911 with its county
seat at Orofino. Named for the Clearwater River whose name was
translated from the Nez Perce term Koos-Koos-Kai-Kai, describing
clear water. In September, 1805, Lewis and Clark followed an old
Indian trail between the north and middle forks of the Clearwater
River and met the Nez Perce near the present site of Weippe. Gold
was first discovered by E. D. Perce in 1860 and Pierce City, the
oldest mining town in Idaho came into existence. |

Clearwater County
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Surrounding
Counties
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Street Scene of Orofino, Idaho
Circa 1941
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Online Data
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Website Updates:
March 2016
Military: Korean War Casualties for Clearwater County have been added.
Obituaries: Charles E. Braddish.
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Submit Cemetery Information
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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Submit Obituary Information
Obituaries
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.
Please include your
email address should we have any questions.
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As
your Idaho State Coordinator, I try to post as much source data online
as possible in order to make it freely available to all researchers. We
gratefully accept contributions of raw data such as
marriage/birth/death records, obituaries, county histories,
biographies, old newspaper items, census information, - anything that would help someone
build their family tree! Feel free to email me, Sandra Davis, with
your contributions - every little bit helps someone!
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to look around at the other
states and consider donating your source information.
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Obituaries: Charles E. Braddish. join
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