City of Roberts Jefferson County, Idaho
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Information
General information on City of Roberts
- Feature Type: Incorporated
Official, historical, colloquial and alternative toponyms for City of Roberts
A brief list of names that this geographic feature has been named
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| City of Roberts | Official |
| Roberts | Official |
| Market Lake | Historical |
Origin Notes and History of City of Roberts
References to City of Roberts that document the origin of its place name
MARKET LAKE, Jefferson County.—It would seem that in years past the bed of this lake was an immense prairie bottom or basin and a favorite resort for game of all kinds; even, indeed, the buffalo have been killed in and near it in large numbers, the evidence of which was shown by the skulls of the animals found near the present border of the lake. So abundant, indeed, was the game here that the trappers and mountain men of that day who in squads and bands trapped and hunted in the wilderness of mountains, always said to each other when their supply of subsistence grew scanty, "Let us go to the market." referring to this resort of the herds of game, and they never visited it in vain until, by one of those strange freaks of nature in this valley of the Snake River, which is fed at many points thruout its length by subterranean streams, this market was converted into an immense sheet of water. It is only accounted for by supposing that the streams making down from the Snake River Mountains and losing themselves in the sand or sage desert of the valley break forth or near the latter, which is thus fed from year to year by the meltings of the snows and the rains from these mountains. In order, therefore, to retain and hand down the name of this once favorable resort, and the legend connected with it, Lieut. John Mullan, of the Mullan Military Road (q.v.) , named this sheet of water the "Market Lake." It is now entirely dry and its bed is being cultivated. A town near by was called Market Lake but is now changed to Roberts, named for a division superintendent of the Oregon Short Line Railroad.—STEVENS, Narrative.
Jefferson County
- Annis
- Barlow
- Bassett
- Camas
- Garfield
- Grant
- City of Hamer
- Hawgood
- Heise
- Labelle
- Level (historical)
- City of Lewisville
- Lorenzo
- City of Menan
- Midway
- Monteview
- City of Mud Lake
- City of Rigby
- City of Ririe
- City of Roberts
- Rudy
- Sage Junction
- Terreton
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Last updated: 2017-01-08