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Teton County, Idaho

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

—newspaper titles

—digitized titles

5historic places

—earliest paper

1915formed

11,630pop. 2020

8cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 5 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1984. Most listings are in or near Driggs, Tetonia, Victor.

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 Teton titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

3 of 5 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

5 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Hollingshead Homestead	Tetonia	Building	2006
Pierre's Hole 1832 Battle Area Site	Driggs	Site	1984
Spud Drive-In Theater	Driggs	District	2003
Teton County Courthouse	Driggs	Building	1987
Victor Railroad Depot	Victor	Building	1995

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Teton was formed in 1915 (1915-01-26) from Madison.

TETON created from MADISON.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

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

1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
3,921	3,601	3,204	2,639	2,897	5,999	11,630

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).

Site	Type	Dist.
Grand Teton National Park	Park unit	44.9 km
John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Memorial Parkway	Park unit	55.7 km

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

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

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

Cemeteries — 8 of 8 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Bates Cemetery	43.70774	-111.22141
Cache Clawson Cemetery	43.81107	-111.142
Cedron Cemetery	43.65806	-111.19383
Driggs - Darby Cemetery	43.69686	-111.07632
Driggs Cemetery	43.72384	-111.08173
Felt Cemetery	43.86124	-111.19951
Haden Cemetery	43.82442	-111.19905
Victor Cemetery	43.59325	-111.09104

Historical populated places — 1 of 1

Name	Lat	Lon
Haden	43.82492	-111.17967

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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