Custer Custer County, Idaho
Mapped Location
Custer: The mapped location is an approximation and should not be used for navigation or wayfinding.
Information
General information on Custer
- Feature Type: Place
Official, historical, colloquial and alternative toponyms for Custer
A brief list of names that this geographic feature has been named
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| Custer | Official |
Origin Notes and History of Custer
References to Custer that document the origin of its place name
CUSTER.—Named for Gen. George A. Custer, who was killed at the battle of Little Bighorn on June 25, 1870. The county seat is Challis, named for A. P. Challis, who, in 1878, founded the town.
A Selected Bibliography of Custer, Custer 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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Custer County
- Alder City (historical)
- Bayhorse
- Bonanza
- Cape Horn (historical)
- Casto
- City of Challis
- Chilly
- City of Clayton
- Cliff (historical)
- Crystal (historical)
- Custer
- Dickey
- Ellis
- Garden City (historical)
- Goldburg
- Grandjean
- Grouse
- Houston
- Leslie
- City of Lost River
- Lower Stanley
- City of Mackay
- Obsidian
- Robinson Bar
- Rothas
- City of Stanley
- Sunbeam
- Torreys
- White Knob (historical)
Political Boundaries
Last updated: 2016-11-27