Menan, Jefferson County, Idaho Genealogy

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City Hall

Menan City Clerks
P.O. Box 127
Menan, Idaho 83434
(208) 754-8876

Resources

Church History and Records

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Current

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints‎

Menan 1st, 5th, 4th Wards
698 North 3600 East
Menan, ID 83434

(208) 754-8789

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints‎
Menan 1st, 3rd and Annis Wards
3547 E Menan Lorenzo Hwy
Menan, ID 83434

(208) 754-4549

Historical

Many of the original records of church units are in the Church History 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 FamilySearch Library in Salt Lake City or at its FamilySearch Centers. Records of the [[Many of the original records of church units are in the Church History 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 FamilySearch Library in Salt Lake City or at its FamilySearch Centers. |Menan Ward(s)]] (1881-1948) are included.

Directories

The Idaho State Archives in Boise has a collection of city, county, state and regional directories.

History

The town of Menan was founded by John R. Pools and others in April 1879, and improvements were commenced at a point west of the “Little Buttes,” a well know landmark on Poole’s Island. The Menan town site covers 320 acres is situated 18 miles north of Idaho Falls and eight miles northwest of Rigby. The total population of Menan Precinct was 910 in 1930.

Additional history of Menan, Idaho and the early Latter-day Saint settlers there can be found in: Andrew Jenson. Encyclopedic History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Salt Lake City: Deseret News Publishing Company, 1941, p. 488.

Newspapers

Historical

Copies of issues of the following Menan newspaper are in the collections of the Idaho State Archives in Boise:

Jefferson County advocate 1913:8:3-1913:11:14