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Welcome to Fir Grove ...

Fir Grove is located in the Idaho Panhandle.

Fir Grove is located in Kootenai County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Fir Grove, you might consider that their post office opened in 1910.

A typical abbreviation for Fir Grove: Fir Grv.

Fir Grove is 2,330 feet [710 m] above sea level.<2> In other words, the altitude of Fir Grove is about ½ mile above sea level.

Time Zone: Fir Grove lies in the Pacific Time Zone (PST/PDT) and observes daylight saving time

Note: If you leave Fir Grove and travel east, you will leave Pacific Time and cross into the Mountain Time Zone (MST/MDT).

Area Codes for Fir Grove: 208 & 986<3>

Communities Also Named Fir Grove ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found another community named Fir Grove - it's located in Oregon.

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

Communities near Fir Grove ...

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

  • Coeur d'Alene
    (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
  • Post Falls
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
  • Hayden
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southeast)
    • Hayden is located in Kootenai County
    • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hayden
    • Population from the 2020 Census: 15,713 people
    • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Hayden <4>
  • Rathdrum
    (6 miles [9.7 km] to the south)
  • Liberty Lake
    (17 miles [27.4 km] to the southwest)
  • Spirit Lake
    (5 miles [8 km] to the north)
  • Dalton Gardens
    (12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
  • Priest River
    (19 miles [30.6 km] to the north)
  • Athol
    (10 miles [16.1 km] to the east)
  • Hauser
    (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)

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 Fir Grove. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Fir Grove.

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

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

TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Fir Grove ...

Looking for more information about Fir Grove? 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 Fir Grove, there are neighboring communities that do have Tourism pages. A map of those communities can be found with our TripAdvisor Page for Fir Grove.

Adding Fir Grove to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Fir Grove in the GNIS. For more information, see the Referenced GNIS Codes section on our Miscellaneous Page.

From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found (so far) for Fir Grove was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<5>

From that list, the Fir Grove post office opened in 1910. The Fir Grove post office closed in 1910.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Fir Grove.

Footnotes ...

<1>If you're interested in how the shape of Idaho's counties, including Kootenai, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Fir Grove - 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 Fir Grove area will be assigned with one of these codes: 208 or 986. As a result, placing a call in the Fir Grove 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/