Caribou County Idaho Genealogy Trails

History and Genealogy
for
Caribou County, Idaho

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This website is part of the Genealogy Trails family and our goal is to help you track your ancestors through time by transcribing genealogical and historical data and placing it online for the free use of all researchers.

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Feel free to email us with any and all contributions that you may have - every little bit helps someone!

I regret that I am unable to do personal research.

Caribou County was established February 11, 1919 with its county seat at Soda Springs, the last county in Idaho to be created. Named for the Caribou Mountains, which in turn are named for Cariboo Fairchild, who had taken part in the gold rush in the Cariboo region of British Columbia in 1860. He discovered gold in this region two years later. This area was on the routes of the earliest explorers, fur trappers and Oregon Trail emigrants. Thousands of emigrants passed through the present site of Soda Springs, so named for the many effervescent natural springs in the area.

Caribou County

Surrounding Counties

Bannock County
Bear Lake County
Bingham County
Bonneville County
Franklin County
Lincoln County, WY

Moses Muir House in Chesterfield, ID
Circa 1887

Online Data

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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.

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.

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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