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Minidoka County, Idaho

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

—newspaper titles

—digitized titles

4historic places

—earliest paper

1913formed

21,613pop. 2020

3cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 4 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1974. Most listings are in or near Rupert, Minidoka.

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 Minidoka titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

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

4 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Empire School	Rupert	Building	2001
Minidoka Dam and Power Plant	Minidoka	Structure	1974
Rupert Town Square Historic District	Rupert	District	2001
Rupert Town Square Historic District (Boundary Increase)	Rupert	District	2010

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

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

MINIDOKA created from LINCOLN.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

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

1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
9,035	9,870	9,785	14,394	19,718	20,174	21,613

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

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

Cemeteries — 3 of 3 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Paul Cemetery	42.63657	-113.77695
Rupert Cemetery	42.68379	-113.66472
Ruther Cemetery (historical)	None	None

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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