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• Idaho City Directories Index and images ($)
  
  

City Directories

Directories of heads of households have been published for all the major cities and many of the smaller cities in Idaho. Many counties also have directories of their residents for scattered years. Many of these directories are in the holdings of the Idaho State Archives in Boise.

Family History Library

The Family History Library has city directories for various years from throughout the state of Idaho including:

Boise

1902	Family History Library FHL film 1036517 item 3
1905	Family History Library FHL film 1425575 item 5
1915	Family History Library FHL film 1320813 item 4
1918	Family History Library FHL film 908278 item 2
1921, 1923, 1927	Family History Library FHL films 908174-75
1904, 1914-18, etc.	Family History Library FHL book 979.628 E4

Coeur d'Alene

1905, 1908-1917
1923-24, 1927-1928, 1931-1932
1958-59, 1963, 1966, 1967, 1970, 1977

Idaho Falls

1911-33, 1941

Pocatello

1905-06	Family History Library FHL fiche 6046575
1921	Family History Library FHL film 1035751 item 6
1903-06, 1927, etc.	Family History Library FHL book 979.647/P1 E4p
1927	Family History Library FHL film 1320869 item 8

To find directories, consult the Place Search of the FamilySearch Catalog under:

IDAHO, [COUNTY] — DIRECTORIES

IDAHO, [COUNTY], [TOWN] — DIRECTORIES

Farm Directories

The Gem State Rural Publishing Company published books and magazines out of Caldwell, Idaho during the early part of the 20th Century. One of the series envisioned by this company was the Gem State Rural (Farm) Directory, to be published in several volumes. The intention was to print a directory for each county or combination of counties for the state. At least five volumes were printed, and a sixth was planned. At least one of these volumes is available online. Some are quite rare and copies are difficult to locate.

Ada County, 1917-1918

Bonneville, Madison, and Jefferson Counties, [dates??; copies not yet located]

Canyon County, 1916-1917

Gooding, Minidoka, and Lincoln Counties [planned but apparently never printed]

Malheur County, Oregon and Owyhee County, Idaho, 1918-1919

Twin Falls County, 1916-1917

These farm directories listed land owners by town, including those who resided outside the county. Names of owners, size of family, acreage, location of the land, and a list of produce and livestock grown are included.

Websites

• US City Directories This web site identifies printed, microfilmed, and online directories and their repositories.