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Welcome to Rocky Bar ...

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

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

Rocky Bar would have been located within present day Elmore County<2>.

Rocky Bar was established in 1863.

While the community is gone, the present day location for Rocky Bar is 5,260 feet [1,603 m] above sea level.<3> In other words, the elevation of Rocky Bar is about 1 mile [or ~1½ km] above sea level.

Time Zone: The area where Rocky Bar was located is in the Mountain Time Zone (MST/MDT) and observes daylight saving time

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

Communities Also Named Rocky Bar ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found another community named Rocky Bar - it's located in Virginia.

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

Communities near Rocky Bar ...

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

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

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

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

Adding Rocky Bar to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Rocky Bar 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 Rocky Bar was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<6>

From that list, the Rocky Bar post office opened in 1868. The Rocky Bar post office closed in 1946.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Rocky Bar.

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 Rocky Bar, 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 Elmore, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<3>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Rocky Bar - 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 Rocky Bar area will be assigned with one of these codes: 208 or 986. As a result, placing a call in the Rocky Bar 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/