Welcome to Cariboo ...

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

We've added Cariboo to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. We would especially like to find the location of Cariboo - knowing its coordinates, we can explore things like its relationship to neighboring communities, nearby cemeteries, etc. If you can help us with Cariboo, please Contact Us.

While we don't have the exact location of Cariboo , we believe that it would have been located within present day Bonneville County<2>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Cariboo, you might consider that their post office opened in 1883.

The Area Codes where Cariboo was located: 208 & 986<3>

Communities Also Named Cariboo ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 4 communities that are also named Cariboo - they are located in British Columbia (2), Idaho and Kansas.

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

Adding Cariboo to Our Gazetteer ...

As we work on our Gazetteer, we occasionally find mention of a community that is new to us. When we find such a community, we add it to our Gazetteer with the hope of adding more information in the future.

The earliest source we've referenced which mentioned Cariboo was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<4>

X2X - From that list, the Cariboo post office opened in 1883.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Cariboo.

Off-the-Road Links ...

The official website for Bonneville County: www.co.bonneville.id.us/

The official website for State of Idaho: https://idaho.gov/

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 Cariboo, 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 Bonneville, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<3>	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 Cariboo area will be assigned with one of these codes: 208 or 986. As a result, placing a call in the Cariboo area will require 10-digit dialing (where you enter both the area code and then the phone number).
<4>	A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/