Camas County Idaho Gen Web

Welcome to Camas COUNTY

In the early 1850’s Goodale’s Cutoff was a heavily used emigrant route that ran the length of Camas Prairie.

During those years the Bannock Indians would gather in the area during the summer and hunt wild life and gather Camas (wild onion) and Yampas (wild carrot) roots to store for winter use.

Camas county is full of history, stories, dreams and beauty.

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Camas County was formed on February 6, 1917 from Blaine County consisting of eleven hundred square miles. It has been under the jurisdiction of ten separate counties, between 1843 and 1917. They are in order of their creation; Champaign, Linn, Wasco, Shoshone, Idaho, Boise, Alturas, Logan, Alta and Blaine, either by the first Territory or State of Idaho. Alturas County was the second largest county created by the first Territorial Legislative Assembly. Old Alturas known as the "Empire" county, extending from Boise east to the Little Lost River, north from the Sawtooth Range and south to the Snake River. On December 11, 1882 at the 12th session of the Idaho Territorial Legislative Assembly, a bill to create a county from the western end of Alturas called Camas was introduced. Thus after a Long and involved controversy concerning the creation of counties from the original Alturas, Camas County was formed.

The County seat is at Fairfield. Camas County consists of the small mining towns of Soldier, Corral, Camas, Hill City and Fairfield although it once had nine small towns.

Camas was named for the lily-like plant found in the area with an edible bulb, gathered in the summer and used by the Bannock Indians and then by settlers. .

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Christine Storey is the Gen Web County Coordinator for this county.

This site was updated December 2012 2011-2013

*The USGENWEB Project Land of the free*	*Western Marriage Index*
*Idaho State Gen Web*	*My Early Years: Essays by an Idaho cowboy*
*Civil War Veterans Of Camas County*	*Camas Prairie Pioneers*
*Camas County Archives*	*Camas County Sheriffs*
*Idaho Death Index* *1911-1951 and Death Notices*	*Town past and present*
*USGen Web Archives* *Idaho Gen Web Archives Idaho Digital library ftp site Alturas County Census, Land Records, WWI Draftees, Etc. (also check Blaine County)*	*Camas County Schools 1883-1990* *Camas County Early Post Offices*
*Old Newspapers*	*Camas Early Epidemics*
*Cemeteries and Churches*	*Old Obituaries from Newspapers*
*Oregon Trail*	*Idaho State Archives*
*Camas County Volunteers*	*Links*
*Camas County, Idaho, History Site*	*Camas County Photo Album*
*Old Disease Names*	*The Virtual Wall - Vietnam Casualties 508^th Parachute Infantry Regiment*
*Claims filed on Camas Prairie land*	Idahoan Legacy Roots
*Administration school years 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962*	Search the 1940 Census
*surnames attending Fairfield high School-1959 thru 1962*	Search Wiki
*Idaho Penitentiary Inmates Files 1864-1975*	Penny Post cards from Idaho

County Clerk
County Courthouse
Fairfield, ID 83327-0430
Phone: (208) 764-2242
Fax: (208) 764-2349

Camas County Historical Society
General Delivery Fairfield, ID 83327

Fairfield Train Depot Museum

120 Willow Ave. E., Fairfield, ID. 83327

Camas County Public Library
519 First St
PO Box 292
Fairfield, ID 83327

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Books to read

(1)A brief History of Camas prairie Idaho by Lucy M. Nelson. (2) The Gods of Soldier Mountains by Katherine Burns. (3) History of Camas County Idaho by John F. Ryan. (4) Lasting legacy 1890-1900 Camas County by Nan Reedy & Lena Nash Rice

*CORRAL CEMETERY 2 miles north, 8 miles west of Fairfield, Camas Co. ID*
*HILL CITY CEMETERY Near Hill City, Camas Co. ID*
*MANARD CEMETERY 2 ½ miles east, 4 ¼ miles south of Fairfield, Camas Co. ID (not maintained but county owned)*
*MOUNTAIN VIEW CEMETERY 5 miles north of Fairfield, Camas Co. ID*
*SCATTERED GRAVES various locations in Camas County Idaho. (On farms, ranches and in the mountains.)*

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