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Bannock County, Idaho

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30historic places

—earliest paper

1893formed

87,018pop. 2020

11cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 30 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1966; 1 is also National Historic Landmark. Most listings are in or near Pocatello, Lava Hot Springs, McCammon.

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 Bannock titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

23 of 30 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

30 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
A. F. R. Building	Pocatello	Building	1990
Bethel Baptist Church	Pocatello	Building	2021
Brady Memorial Chapel	Pocatello	Building	1979
Church of the Assumption	Pocatello	Building	1979
East Side Downtown Historic District	Pocatello	District	1994
Fort Hall NHL	Fort Hall	Site	1966
Harkness, H. O., Stable Building	McCammon	Building	1980
Hood, John, House	Pocatello	Building	1978
Hyde, William A., House	Pocatello	Building	1983
Idaho State University Administration Building	Pocatello	Building	1993
Idaho State University Neighborhood Historic District	Pocatello	District	1984
L.D.S. Ward Building	Lava Hot Springs	Building	1999
Lava High School Gymnasium	Lava Hot Springs	Building	1997
Lincoln-Johnson Avenues Residential Historic District	Pocatello	District	2006
McCammon State Bank Building	McCammon	Building	1979
Old Town Residential Historic District	Pocatello	District	2008
Pocatello Carnegie Library	Pocatello	Building	1973
Pocatello Federal Building	Pocatello	Building	1977
Pocatello Historic District	Pocatello	District	1982
Pocatello Warehouse Historic District	Pocatello	District	1996
Pocatello Westside Residential Historic District	Pocatello	District	2003
Quinn Apartments	Pocatello	Building	1985
Rice-Packard House	Pocatello	Building	1985
Riverside Inn	Lava Hot Springs	Building	1979
St. Joseph's Catholic Church	Pocatello	Building	1978
Standrod House	Pocatello	Building	1973
Sullivan-Kinney House	Pocatello	Building	1977
Trinity Episcopal Church	Pocatello	Building	1978
Whitestone Hotel	Lava Hot Springs	Building	1980
Woolley Apartments	Pocatello	Building	1985

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Bannock was formed in 1893 (1893-03-06) from Bingham.

BANNOCK created from BINGHAM.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Bannock County population from 1900 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
11,702	27,532	34,759	41,745	49,342	65,421	75,565	87,018

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

11 cemeteries and 2 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 11 of 11 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Arimo Cemetery	42.55727	-112.1699
Cambridge Cemetery	42.46368	-112.09717
Downey City Cemetery	42.42472	-112.11738
Grant Ward Cemetery	42.40127	-112.03804
Indian Cemetery	42.96748	-112.55253
Inkom Cemetery	42.80545	-112.22742
Lava Hot Springs Cemetery	42.6013	-112.01578
Marsh Center Cemetery	42.51873	-112.1946
Mountain View Cemetery	42.85433	-112.42748
Robin Cemetery	42.56707	-112.25731
Woodland Cemetery	42.43631	-112.21306

Historical populated places — 2 of 2

Name	Lat	Lon
Dempsey	42.62353	-111.99468
Topaz	42.62714	-112.08552

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

Historical markers

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