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Clark County, Idaho

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

—newspaper titles

—digitized titles

4historic places

—earliest paper

1919formed

790pop. 2020

4cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 4 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1974; 1 is also National Historic Landmark. Most listings are in or near Blue Dome, Kilgore, Spencer.

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 Clark titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

2 of 4 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

4 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Birch Creek Rock Shelters	Blue Dome	Site	1974
Camas Meadow Camp and Battle Sites NHL	Kilgore	Site	1989
Spencer Rock House	Spencer	Building	1989
St. James' Episcopal Mission Church	Dubois	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

Clark was formed in 1919 (1919-02-01) from Fremont.

CLARK created from FREMONT.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

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

1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
1,886	1,005	918	915	798	1,022	790

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

Cemeteries — 4 of 4 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Goddard Cemetery	43.99727	-112.84761
John Day Cemetery	44.13835	-112.90109
Kilgore Cemetery	44.37296	-111.92413
New Kilgore Cemetery	44.36673	-111.9319

Historical populated places — 1 of 1

Name	Lat	Lon
Kaufman	44.16018	-112.91139

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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