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Camas County, Idaho

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

—newspaper titles

—digitized titles

1historic places

—earliest paper

1917formed

1,077pop. 2020

4cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 1 listed property in the county, first listed in 1984. Most listings are in or near Fairfield.

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 Camas titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

0 of 1 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

1 listed property

Property	City	Type	Listed
Skillern, John, House	Fairfield	Building	1984

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Camas was formed in 1917 (1917-02-06) from Blaine.

CAMAS created from BLAINE.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

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

1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
1,730	1,360	1,079	917	818	991	1,077

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

4 cemeteries and 0 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 4 of 4 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Corral Cemetery	43.38573	-114.94394
Hill City Cemetery	43.30723	-115.04701
Manard Cemetery	43.26743	-114.74706
Mountain View Cemetery	43.41295	-114.79032

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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