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Madison County, Idaho

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

—newspaper titles

—digitized titles

3historic places

—earliest paper

1913formed

52,913pop. 2020

7cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 3 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1974. Most listings are in or near Rexburg.

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 Madison titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

3 of 3 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

3 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Madison County Courthouse	Rexburg	Building	1987
Rexburg Stake Tabernacle	Rexburg	Building	1974
Spori, Jacob, Building	Rexburg	Building	1989

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Madison was formed in 1913 (1913-11-04) from Fremont.

MADISON created from FREMONT.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

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

1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
9,167	9,186	9,156	9,417	19,480	27,467	52,913

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

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

Cemeteries — 7 of 7 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Beaver Dick Cemetery	43.8379	-111.88886
Burton Cemetery	43.7892	-111.82965
Plano Cemetery	43.88991	-111.90057
Rexburg Cemetery	43.84869	-111.79416
Sugar City Cemetery	43.84158	-111.73723
Sutton Cemetery	43.72368	-111.76052
Teton Cemetery	43.86987	-111.66503

Historical populated places — 1 of 1

Name	Lat	Lon
Independence	43.7763	-111.91691

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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