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Payette County, Idaho

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

—newspaper titles
—digitized titles
15historic places
—earliest paper
1917formed
25,386pop. 2020
5cemeteries
—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 15 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1978. Most listings are in or near Payette, McCall, New Plymouth.

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 Payette titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

14 of 15 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

15 listed properties
PropertyCityTypeListed
Chase, David C., HousePayetteBuilding1978
Coughanour Apartment BlockPayetteBuilding1978
Jacobsen, N. A., BuildingPayetteBuilding1982
Jacobsen, N.A., HousePayetteBuilding1998
McCall District Administrative SiteMcCallBuilding1991
Moss, A. B., BuildingPayetteBuilding1978
New Plymouth Congregational ChurchNew PlymouthBuilding1982
Palumbo, J. C., Fruit Company Packing Warehouse BuildingPayetteBuilding1982
Payette City Hall and CourthousePayetteBuilding1979
Portia ClubPayetteBuilding2010
St. James Episcopal ChurchPayetteBuilding1978
St. John's ChurchPayetteBuilding2013
US Post Office-Payette MainPayetteBuilding1989
Whitney, Grant, HousePayetteBuilding1978
Woodward BuildingPayetteBuilding1978

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Payette was formed in 1917 (1917-05-11) from Canyon.

PAYETTE created from CANYON.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

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

25k16k7,02119201960197020002020
1920194019501960198020002020
7,0219,51111,92112,36315,72220,57825,386

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.
Minidoka Internment National MonumentPark unit21.9 km

Source: NPS National Datasets / Public POIs. The NPS Developer API requires a free key and was not used.

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

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

Cemeteries — 5 of 5 listed
NameLatLon
Falk Cemetery43.92214-116.73531
Kennedy Cemetery43.97505-116.79194
Parkview Cemetery43.97606-116.84397
Riverside Cemetery44.09516-116.93598
Washoe Cemetery44.05021-116.94814
Historical populated places — 1 of 1
NameLatLon
French44.12211-116.64404

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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