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Gooding County, Idaho

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

—newspaper titles
—digitized titles
13historic places
—earliest paper
1913formed
15,598pop. 2020
4cemeteries
—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 13 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1975. Most listings are in or near Gooding, Hagerman, Wendell.

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 Gooding titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

11 of 13 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

13 listed properties
PropertyCityTypeListed
Citizens State BankGoodingBuilding1980
Gooding College CampusGoodingBuilding1983
Hagerman State Bank, LimitedHagermanBuilding1989
Kelly's HotelGoodingBuilding1985
Mays, James Henry and Ida Owen, HouseWendellBuilding1993
Owsley BridgeHagermanStructure1998
Priestly's Hydraulic RamHagermanStructure1975
Roberts, Morris, StoreHagermanBuilding1978
Schubert TheatreGoodingBuilding2004
Teater, Archie, StudioBlissBuilding1984
Thompson Mortuary ChapelGoodingBuilding1982
Trinity Episcopal ChurchGoodingBuilding1982
West Point Grade SchoolWendellBuilding1982

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Gooding was formed in 1913 (1913-01-28) from Lincoln.

GOODING created from LINCOLN.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

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

16k12k7,54819201960197020002020
1920194019501960198020002020
7,5489,25711,1019,54411,87414,15515,598

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).

SiteTypeDist.
Hagerman Fossil Beds National MonumentPark unit22.9 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 0 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 4 of 4 listed
NameLatLon
Elmwood Cemetery42.93034-114.70164
Pioneer Cemetery42.93223-114.69395
Pioneer Cemetery (historical)42.92268-114.94534
Wendell Cemetery42.77329-114.71259

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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