Boise County
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county in Idaho, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Idaho
- Founded
- February 4, 1864
- Named after
- Boise River
- Seat
- Idaho City
- Largest city
- Horseshoe Bend
- Total
- 1,907 sq mi (4,940 km )
- Land
- 1,899 sq mi (4,920 km )
- Water
- 7.4 sq mi (19 km ) 0.4%
- Estimate 2025
- 8,545
- Density
- 3.7/sq mi (1.4/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−7 ( Mountain )
- Summer dst
- UTC−6 ( MDT )
- Congressional district
- 1st
- Website
- www .boisecounty .us
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Named after
- Boise River
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Idaho
- Contains
- Idaho City
- Capital
- Idaho City
- Population
- 7610
- Area
- 4938
- Shares border with
- Custer County
- Official website
- www.boisecounty.us/Department/243/visit_boise_county_page.aspx
- Image
- Boise County Courthouse, Idaho City, Idaho.jpg
- Households
- 3351
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- Commons category
- Boise County, Idaho
- topic's main category
- Category:Boise County, Idaho
- water as percent of area
- 0.4
- native label
- Boise County
- inception
- 1864-02-04
- different from
- Boise
- Digital Atlas of Idaho URL
- digitalatlas.cose.isu.edu/counties/boise/geomap.htm
- per capita income
- 33384
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Encyclopedic overview
Boise County is a rural mountain county in the U.S. state of Idaho. As of the 2020 United States census, the population was 7,610. The county seat is historic Idaho City, which is connected through a series of paved and unpaved roads to Lowman, Centerville, Placerville, Pioneerville, Star Ranch, Crouch, Garden Valley, and Horseshoe Bend.
Boise County is part of the Boise metropolitan area. Despite the name, Boise itself is in nearby Ada County.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Boise County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.