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Welcome to Featherville ...

Featherville is located in Elmore County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Featherville, you might consider that their post office opened in 1906.

Featherville is 4,540 feet [1,384 m] above sea level.<2> In other words, the altitude of Featherville is about ¾ mile [or ~1½ km] above sea level.

Time Zone: Featherville lies in the Mountain Time Zone (MST/MDT) and observes daylight saving time

Area Codes for Featherville: 208 & 986<3>

Communities near Featherville ...

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

  • Rocky Bar ‑ Historic
    (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
    • Rocky Bar is located in Elmore County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rocky Bar
  • Spanish Town ‑ Historic
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
    • Spanish Town is located in Elmore County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Spanish Town
  • Pine
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
  • Alturas City ‑ Historic
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the north)
    • Alturas City is located in Elmore County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alturas City
  • Atlanta
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
  • Dixie
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Dixie is located in Elmore County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Dixie
  • Reclamation Village
    (22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
    • Reclamation Village is located in Elmore County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Reclamation Village
  • Hill City
    (23 miles [37 km] to the southeast)
  • Sawtooth City
    (28 miles [45.1 km] to the northeast)
    • Sawtooth City is located in Blaine County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sawtooth City
  • Fairfield
    (29 miles [46.7 km] to the southeast)

To Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

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

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

Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Featherville. 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 Featherville.

TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Featherville ...

Looking for more information about Featherville? A wonderful source is the TripAdvisor website. We always start with the TripAdvisor Tourism page, where you can read an overview with links that will help you find lodging, restaurants and attractions.

While we are unaware of a Tourism page that is specific to Featherville, there are neighboring communities that do have Tourism pages. A map of those communities can be found with our TripAdvisor Page for Featherville.

Adding Featherville to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Featherville 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 Featherville was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<5>

From that list, the Featherville post office opened in 1906. The Featherville post office closed in 1928.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Featherville.

Footnotes ...

<1>If you're interested in how the shape of Idaho's counties, including Elmore, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Featherville - it will be higher in some places and lower in others.
<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 Featherville area will be assigned with one of these codes: 208 or 986. As a result, placing a call in the Featherville area will require 10-digit dialing (where you enter both the area code and then the phone number).
<4>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<5>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/