Welcome to Red River Hot Springs ...

Red River Hot Springs is located in Idaho County<1>.

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

A typical abbreviation for Red River Hot Springs: Red Riv. Hot Spgs. (or less commonly used: Red Riv. Hot Spngs. or Red Riv. Hot Sprngs.)

Red River Hot Springs is 5,000 feet [1,524 m] above sea level.<2> In other words, the elevation of Red River Hot Springs is about 1 mile [or ~1½ km] above sea level.

Time Zone: Red River Hot Springs lies in the Pacific Time Zone (PST/PDT) and observes daylight saving time

Note: If you travel east from Red River Hot Springs, you will leave Pacific Time and cross into the Mountain Time Zone (MST/MDT).

Area Codes for Red River Hot Springs: 208 & 986<3>

TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Red River Hot Springs ...

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

Adding Red River Hot Springs to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Red River Hot Springs 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 for Red River Hot Springs was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<4>

From that list, the Red River Hot Springs post office opened in 1910.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Red River Hot Springs.

Footnotes ...

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