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Idaho Places: Ada County

  • Bliss
  • Gooding
  • Hagerman
  • Wendell
BACKGROUND:

Established January 28, 1913 with its county seat at Gooding. Named for Frank R. Gooding, pioneer sheep rancher, early mayor of the city of Gooding, later Idaho Governor and U. S. Senator. Mountain men and fur traders trapped the Malad River extensively in the early 1800s. Settlers came to the rich agricultural lands of the Hagerman Valley in the 1860s.

GOODING COUNTY MAP


ISU: Bonner County Map