Do you know of Salmon City ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Salmon City. When we encounter a name that is new to us, we add it to our Gazetteer with the hope that we'll discover more information in the future. Such is the case with Salmon City.

Our sources for Salmon City (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office by the same name. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Salmon City other than they indicate that Salmon City would be found somewhere in Lemhi County, Idaho.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1869 and closed  in 1895.

This entry could have originated in error. It might be that a source had a misprint, was simply wrong or we made a transcription error while referencing it. Many of the documents we reference are from the 1800s and the early 1900s, with some easier to read than others.

Part of the difficulty in identifying whether a name is a post office or a community lies with how Post Offices were named. We've prepared an article with our understanding of how post offices were named: Naming of Post Offices.

Communities Also Named Salmon City ...

We found one communities that share the name Salmon City.

Within Idaho, the name Salmon City is unique.

Beyond Idaho, there is another community also named Salmon City in the United States.

• Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
  • Nevada
    • Elko County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Nevada community of Salmon City [Elko County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Salmon City ...

We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Salmon City:

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<1>

Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Salmon City - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

List of Post Offices in the United States (1870)
Published by the Government Printing Office

Salmon City was listed as Salmon City Courthouse.

More Orphans in  Lemhi County ...

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As we explained above, when we encounter a name that might be a community or a post office we add it to our Gazetteer. If we have little information to go with the name, we call them Orphans. Below are Orphans that we believe to be located in Lemhi County.