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Caribou County, Idaho

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—newspaper titles

—digitized titles

8historic places

—earliest paper

1919formed

7,027pop. 2020

8cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 8 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1975. Most listings are in or near Soda Springs, Chesterfield, Grace.

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 Caribou 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
Caribou County Courthouse	Soda Springs	Building	1987
Chesterfield Historic District	Chesterfield	District	1980
Enders Hotel	Soda Springs	Building	1993
Grace Pegram Truss Railroad Bridge	Grace	Structure	1997
Hopkins, William, House	Soda Springs	Building	1979
Lander Road	Soda Springs	Structure	1975
Largilliere, Edgar Walter, Sr., House	Soda Springs	Building	1991
Soda Springs City Hall	Soda Springs	Building	1993

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Caribou was formed in 1919 (1919-02-11) from Bannock.

CARIBOU created from BANNOCK. Same act also authorized BANNOCK to annex territory from CARIBOU, dependent on a vote in the general election of November 1920. Proposed annexation failed in referendum.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

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

1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
2,191	2,284	5,576	5,976	8,695	7,304	7,027

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

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

Cemeteries — 8 of 8 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Bancroft Cemetery	42.72278	-111.90922
Chesterfield Cemetery	42.85408	-111.90467
Fairview Cemetery	42.65719	-111.60677
Freedom Cemetery	42.97039	-111.05361
Grace Cemetery	42.54964	-111.72995
Lago Cemetery	42.43725	-111.71131
Lanes Grave Cemetery	42.9363	-111.28187
Thatcher Cemetery	42.44519	-111.77549

Historical populated places — 2 of 2

Name	Lat	Lon
Old Williamsburg	42.9427	-111.3405
Williamsburg	42.9477	-111.26077

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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