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Oneida County, Idaho

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

—newspaper titles

—digitized titles

8historic places

—earliest paper

1864formed

4,564pop. 2020

3cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 8 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1979. Most listings are in or near Malad City, Malad, Samaria.

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 Oneida titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

6 of 8 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

8 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
American Legion Malad Post 65	Malad	Building	2024
Co-Op Block and J. N. Ireland Bank	Malad City	Building	1979
Evans, D. L., Sr., Bungalow	Malad City	Building	1979
Jones, Jedd, House	Malad City	Building	1979
Malad Second Ward Tabernacle	Malad City	Building	1979
Oneida County Courthouse	Malad	Building	1987
Samaria Historic District	Samaria	District	1979
United Presbyterian Church	Malad City	Building	1979

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Oneida was formed in 1864 (1864-01-22) from Boise, Owyhee.

ONEIDA created by Idaho Territory from BOISE and OWYHEE; included parts of present Idaho and Wyoming.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Oneida County population from 1870 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1870	1880	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
1,922	6,964	8,933	6,723	5,417	4,387	3,603	3,258	4,125	4,564

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

Cemeteries — 3 of 3 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Holbrook Cemetery	42.15274	-112.66609
Malad City Cemetery	42.17933	-112.23279
Samaria Cemetery	42.11217	-112.34869

Historical populated places — 1 of 1

Name	Lat	Lon
Nelson	42.08075	-112.65637

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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