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A Peripheral View of How Communities Makes a County in Idaho
Idaho Places offers general localities that makes a community within Idaho's counties. This section is a peripheral view of what's cities, towns, or unincorporated communities, and perhaps known ghost towns of Idaho.
Idaho Places: Cities, Towns & Communities
Idaho's Panhandle Counties
Idaho’s panhandle counties consist of ten counties, which were once a part of the original Spokane County, Washington Territory prior to the year of 1863. Of these counites, Shoshone, Nez Perce and Idaho counties were the original counties incorporated at the time of the proclamation of the Idaho Territory in March 1863.
The following counties (from north to south) are: Boundary, Bonner, Kootenai, Benewah, Shoshone, Latah, Clearwater, Nez Perce, Lewis, and Idaho counties. To learn about each county’s communities name-place, simply click on the county’s name on map.
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- an unincorporated community within the county.
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- a census-designated place (CDP) -- the U.S. Census Bureau states that these census-designated places are not considered incorporated places, and it includes only census-designated places in its city population list for various states that has many incorporated communities.
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- not the defunct Tamarack Resort that's located in Valley County, Idaho.
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- this city is partially incorporated into both Bannock County, Idaho, and Power County, Idaho.
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- a previously known community, where such criteria as village, town or city had once been designated as, has become permanently abandoned or deserted by its inhabitants completely, whether its structures still exists in parts or in whole.