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Adams County, Idaho

Historic newspapers, landmarks, and county history layers for genealogists and local historians.

—newspaper titles

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8historic places

—earliest paper

1911formed

4,379pop. 2020

7cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 8 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1978. Most listings are in or near Council, New Meadows, Cuprum.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers

Library of Congress

Newspaper directory data for Idaho is not yet loaded on this site. Browse Adams titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

7 of 8 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

8 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Adams County Courthouse	Council	Building	1987
Council Ranger Station	Council	Building	1992
Heigho, Col. E. M., House	New Meadows	Building	1978
Hells Canyon Archeological District	Cuprum	District	1984
Huntley, A. O., Barn	Cuprum	Building	1978
Indian Mountain Fire Lookout	Council	Building	2022
Meadows Schoolhouse	New Meadows	Building	1979
Pacific and Idaho Northern Railroad Depot	New Meadows	Building	1978

Source: National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Property links open NRHP nomination files at the National Archives.

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Adams was formed in 1911 (1911-03-15) from Washington.

ADAMS created from WASHINGTON.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Adams County population from 1920 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
2,966	3,407	3,347	2,978	3,347	3,476	4,379

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau historical county population (Forstall 1790–1990) and public-domain / CC0 county population series through 2020.

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

7 cemeteries and 1 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 7 of 7 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Cottonwood Cemetery	44.68196	-116.44488
Hornet Creek Cemetery	44.79874	-116.54668
Independent Order of Oddfellows Cemetery	44.71599	-116.44374
Indian Valley Cemetery	44.5691	-116.4465
Kessler Cemetery	44.73846	-116.43915
Meadows Valley Cemetery	44.98097	-116.24475
Winkler Cemetery	44.75443	-116.44557

Historical populated places — 1 of 1

Name	Lat	Lon
Hillsdale	44.51044	-116.42515

Source: USGS Geographic Names Information System (public domain). Cemeteries from the 2021 NationalFile archive; historical places from GNIS HistoricalFeatures topical extract.

Historical markers

HMdb link

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