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Welcome to Cabinet ...

So far, we found very little information about Cabinet. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1>

We've added Cabinet to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Cabinet, please Contact Us.

Cabinet was located in the Idaho Panhandle.

Cabinet would have been located within present day Bonner County<2>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Cabinet, you might consider that their post office opened in 1904.

While the community is gone, the present day location for Cabinet is 2,190 feet [668 m] above sea level.<3> In other words, the elevation of Cabinet is about ½ mile above sea level.

Time Zone: The area where Cabinet was located is in the Pacific Time Zone (PST/PDT) and observes daylight saving time

Note: While Cabinet is in the Pacific Time Zone, the area just to the east is in the Mountain Time Zone (MST/MDT).

The Area Codes where Cabinet was located: 208 & 986<4>

Communities Also Named Cabinet ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are two Idaho communities named Cabinet: This one is located in Bonner County and the other is located in Kootenai County.

For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Cabinet.

Communities near Cabinet ...

We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Cabinet.

To Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

We have a couple of sections for those tracing their genealogy.

We created a list of cemeteries that are in the area around Cabinet. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Cabinet.

Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Cabinet. Our list includes information such as whether the 1895 community had a post office or railroad service. See our List of 1890's Communities around Cabinet.

We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Cabinet. See our Newspapers Page for Cabinet.

Adding Cabinet to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Cabinet in both the FIPS-55 and the GNIS. For more information, see the FIPS and GNIS Codes sections on our Miscellaneous Page.

From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found (so far) for Cabinet was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<6>

From that list, the Cabinet post office opened in 1904. The Cabinet post office closed in 1954.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Cabinet.

Footnotes ...

<1>We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Cabinet, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<2>If you're interested in how the shape of Idaho's counties, including Bonner, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<3>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Cabinet - it will be higher in some places and lower in others.
<4>When there's a risk of an area code running out of phone numbers, an 'Overlay Area Code' is created that has the same geographic boundaries as the existing area code. In this case, the 208 code has been Overlayed with the 986 area code. New phone numbers in the Cabinet area will be assigned with one of these codes: 208 or 986. As a result, placing a call in the Cabinet area will require 10-digit dialing (where you enter both the area code and then the phone number).
<5>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<6>A copy of the Blevins & Helbock Post Office list with background information can be found at:

      https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/