City of Idaho City Boise County, Idaho
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General information on City of Idaho City
- Feature Type: Incorporated
Official, historical, colloquial and alternative toponyms for City of Idaho City
A brief list of names that this geographic feature has been named
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| City of Idaho City | Official |
| Idaho City | Official |
Origin Notes and History of City of Idaho City
References to City of Idaho City that document the origin of its place name
IDAHO CITY, Boise County.—Idaho City, which went at first by the name of "Moore's Creek," so named after Marion Moore, one of the first prospectors who discovered gold in that locality and mined extensively there, and who was killed afterwards somewhere near South Pass (q.v.) . After the place began to grow populous, it took the name of Bannack and when still larger grown and able to sport city costumes its denizens voted to call their town "Idaho City."—BRISTOL, Idaho Nomenclature.
A Selected Bibliography of City of Idaho City, Boise County, Idaho
A compilation of essential readings detailing the history, geography, and culture of the region.
Idaho's bonanza years ghost towns, their history and how to find them by Rex Painter, Dorothy Povey
Rex Painter and Dorothy Povey’s Idaho's Bonanza Years: Ghost Towns, Their History and How to Find Them serves as both a pioneer chronicle and a physical navigational guide to the abandoned mining settlements scattered across the Gem State. The narrative maps the rugged, isolated topography that dictated Idaho's late-nineteenth-century mineral rushes, tracing routes through the steep, timbered gulches of the central Salmon River Mountains southward to the arid, high-elevation basins of the Owyhee range. By detailing the rapid rise and inevitable collapse of these remote boomtowns—often built precariously along narrow canyon walls and deep within unforgiving alpine valleys—the authors illustrate the extreme environmental challenges prospectors faced in extracting wealth from the state's formidable interior. Ultimately, the text captures the transient geographical footprint of resource extraction in the inland Pacific Northwest, demonstrating how the harsh physical realities of these isolated mountainous enclaves eventually reclaimed the ambitious pioneer architecture of Idaho's gold and silver rushes.
46 pages illustrations, map 25 cm
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Boise County
- Banks
- Banner
- Big Eddy
- Brownlee
- Centerville
- City of Crouch
- Garden Valley
- Gardena
- Graham (historical)
- Granite
- Grimes Pass
- City of Horseshoe Bend
- Howell (historical)
- City of Idaho City
- Lowman
- New Centerville
- Pioneerville
- City of Placerville
- Quartzburg
- Twin Springs
- Washington Mill
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Last updated: 2017-01-07