Lemhi Lemhi County, Idaho
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General information on Lemhi
- Feature Type: Place
Official, historical, colloquial and alternative toponyms for Lemhi
A brief list of names that this geographic feature has been named
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| Lemhi | Official |
Origin Notes and History of Lemhi
References to Lemhi that document the origin of its place name
FORT LEMHI, Lemhi County.—This fort was named for Limhi (q.v.), a character in the Book of Mormon. It was never a military post, but a fortification erected to protect the Mormon people who had settled there. It was constructed of mud and built on the river bottom near a creek bank. The walls were moulded in successive forms, made of twelve inch boards, placed one above the other, giving them the appearance of being made in layers. It was nine feet high, two feet wide and more than sixteen rods square with a bastion on the northeast corner. Adjoining the wall on the north was a stockade ten rods square made of ten inch round timbers twelve feet long, set on end three feet in the ground. Within the stockade were erected about twenty-five log cabins and perhaps one hundred people lived about the premises. Stock and machinery were placed in the mud fort while the cabins were shelter and living quarters for the families. They cultivated considerable ground, raising wheat and other farm products, being the first to apply irrigation to the lands in this State. In 1857 Brigham Young, with a considerable retinue, visited this settlement. The Bannack Indians killed two members of this settlement, stole their stock and succeeded in driving them back to Utah. This fort was established in June, 1855, and abandoned in March, 1858.—BANNOCK STAKE.
Lemhi County
- Baker
- Blackbird
- Carmen
- Cobalt
- Elk Bend
- Forney
- Gibbonsville
- Gilmore
- Hahn
- Junction
- City of Leadore
- Leadville
- Leesburg
- Lemhi
- May
- Nicholia
- North Fork
- Patterson
- City of Salmon
- Shoup
- Tendoy
- Ulysses (historical)
- Williams Lake Resort
- Yellowjacket
Political Boundaries
Last updated: 2016-12-04