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Twin Falls County, Idaho

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40historic places

—earliest paper

1907formed

90,046pop. 2020

5cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 40 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1976. Most listings are in or near Twin Falls, Buhl, Filer.

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 Twin Falls titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

30 of 40 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

40 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Alvis, James, House	Twin Falls	Building	1980
Bickel School	Twin Falls	Building	1990
Bowlby, T. P., Barn	Buhl	Building	1983
Brose, Robert and Augusta, Ranch	Hansen	District	2021
Buhl City Hall	Buhl	Building	1978
Buhl IOOF Building	Buhl	Building	1984
Cedar Draw School	Buhl	Building	1991
Dau-Webbenhorst Barn	Buhl	Building	1983
Duquesne, Achille, House	Filer	Building	1993
Hollister School	Hollister	Building	1991
Hotel Buhl	Buhl	Building	1985
Idaho Power Substation	Twin Falls	Building	1978
Kimberly High School	Kimberly	Building	1990
Kunze, Rudolf, Barn	Buhl	Building	1994
Lincoln School	Twin Falls	Building	1990
Lincoln Street Electric Streetlights	Twin Falls	Object	1992
Maxwell, Art and Frieda, Barn	Buhl	Building	1983
McCollum, Robert, House	Twin Falls	Building	1982
Milner Dam and the Twin Falls Main Canal	Murtaugh	Structure	1986
Morse, Burton, House	Twin Falls	Building	1993
Peck, D. H., House	Twin Falls	Building	1993
Pleasant Valley School	Kimberly	Building	1991
Pleasant View School	Twin Falls	Building	1991
Priebe, Walter, House	Twin Falls	Building	1993
Ramona Theater	Buhl	Building	1976
Rogerson School	Rogerson	Building	2019
Salmon Falls Dam	Rogerson	Structure	2009
Schick, Henry, Barn	Buhl	Building	1983
Smith, C. Harvey, House	Twin Falls	Building	1978
Stricker Store and Farm	Twin Falls	Building	1979
Toana Freight Wagon Road Historic District	Castleford	District	2006
Twin Falls Bank and Trust Company Building	Twin Falls	Building	1986
Twin Falls Canal Company Building	Twin Falls	Building	1996
Twin Falls City Park Historic District	Twin Falls	District	1978
Twin Falls Downtown Historic District	Twin Falls	District	2000
Twin Falls Milling and Elevator Company Warehouse	Twin Falls	Building	1995
Twin Falls Original Townsite Residential Historic District	Twin Falls	District	2001
Twin Falls Warehouse Historic District	Twin Falls	District	1997
US Post Office-Buhl Main	Buhl	Building	1989
Union School	Filer	Building	2003

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Twin Falls was formed in 1907 (1907-02-21) from Cassia.

TWIN FALLS created from CASSIA.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Twin Falls County population from 1910 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1910	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
13,543	28,398	36,403	40,979	41,842	52,927	64,284	90,046

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.
Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument	Park unit	53.0 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 3 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 5 of 5 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Buhl Cemetery	42.60157	-114.7367
Independent Order of Odd Fellows Cemetery	42.57768	-114.58559
Rock Creek Cemetery	42.45903	-114.30443
Sunset Memorial Park Cemetery	42.54629	-114.43391
Twin Falls Cemetery	42.54991	-114.43697

Historical populated places — 3 of 3

Name	Lat	Lon
Abbey	42.63157	-114.75616
Austin	42.65629	-114.84922
Bickel	42.52797	-114.21058

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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