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Butte County, Idaho

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

—newspaper titles

—digitized titles

5historic places

—earliest paper

1917formed

2,574pop. 2020

4cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 5 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1966; 1 is also National Historic Landmark. Most listings are in or near Arco.

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 Butte titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

0 of 5 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

5 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Arco Baptist Community Church	Arco	Building	2001
Aviator's Cave	Arco	Site	2010
Craters of the Moon National Monument Mission 66 Historic District	Arco	District	2022
Experimental Breeder Reactor No. 1 NHL	Arco	Building	1966
Goodale's Cutoff	Arco	Site	1974

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Butte was formed in 1917 (1917-02-06) from Bingham, Blaine, Jefferson.

BUTTE created from BINGHAM, BLAINE, and JEFFERSON.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

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

1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
2,940	1,877	2,722	3,498	3,342	2,899	2,574

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

National Park Service sites nearby

NPS

Park units within about 40 km of the county centroid (from NPS Public POIs; no API key).

Site	Type	Dist.
Craters Of The Moon National Monument and Preserve	Park unit	39.9 km

Source: NPS National Datasets / Public POIs. The NPS Developer API requires a free key and was not used.

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

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

Cemeteries — 4 of 4 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Antelope Cemetery	43.67129	-113.59667
Hillcrest Cemetery	43.62713	-113.28501
Howe Cemetery	43.7824	-113.00479
Lost River Cemetery	43.69676	-113.38517

Historical populated places — 2 of 2

Name	Lat	Lon
Antelope	43.67212	-113.64197
Sweet Sage	43.82768	-112.92778

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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