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Boundary County, Idaho

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

—newspaper titles

—digitized titles

9historic places

—earliest paper

1915formed

12,056pop. 2020

6cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 9 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1978. Most listings are in or near Bonners Ferry, Eastport, Porthill.

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 Boundary titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

8 of 9 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

9 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Boundary County Courthouse	Bonners Ferry	Building	1987
Fry's Trading Post	Bonners Ferry	Building	1984
Harvey Mountain Quarry	Bonners Ferry	Site	1978
North Side School	Bonners Ferry	Building	1992
Snyder Guard Station Historical District	Eastport	District	1983
Soderling, Russell and Pearl, House	Bonners Ferry	Building	1998
Spokane & International Railroad Construction Camp	Eastport	Site	1994
U.S. Inspection Statio-Porthill, Idaho	Porthill	Building	2014
US Post Office-Bonners Ferry Main	Bonners Ferry	Building	1989

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Boundary was formed in 1915 (1915-01-23) from Bonner.

BOUNDARY created from BONNER.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

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

1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
4,474	5,987	5,908	5,809	7,289	9,871	12,056

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

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

Cemeteries — 6 of 6 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Boulder Creek Cemetery	48.61926	-116.058
Copeland Cemetery	48.92022	-116.37927
Grandview Cemetery	48.68466	-116.29335
Independent Order of Odd Fellows Cemetery	48.99944	-116.48395
Moravia Cemetery	48.65889	-116.37494
Paradise Valley Cemetery	48.64529	-116.30883

Historical populated places — 1 of 1

Name	Lat	Lon
Boulder City	48.60272	-116.06935

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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