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Welcome to
Alturas County, Idaho Genealogy and History
(A Defunct Idaho County)
 Website
updated with new data
March 27, 2009
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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.
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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We are always looking for contributions of cemetery information. If you would like to submit headstone information or submit an
entire cemetery transcription, then please click the submission link below:
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following link below if you would like to submit any obituary
information that you may have. Your contributions are gladly accepted!
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