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Bear Lake County
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county in Idaho, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Idaho
- Founded
- January 5, 1875
- Named after
- Bear Lake
- Seat
- Paris
- Largest city
- Montpelier
- Total
- 1,049 sq mi (2,720 km )
- Land
- 975 sq mi (2,530 km )
- Water
- 75 sq mi (190 km ) 7.1%
- Estimate 2025
- 6,727
- Density
- 6/sq mi (2.3/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−7 ( Mountain )
- Summer dst
- UTC−6 ( MDT )
- Congressional district
- 2nd
- Website
- bearlakecounty .info
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Named after
- Bear Lake
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Idaho
- Contains
- Bloomington
- Capital
- Paris
- Population
- 6372
- Area
- 2718
- Shares border with
- Franklin County
- Official website
- www.bearlakecounty.info
- Image
- Bear Lake County Courthouse Paris Idaho.jpeg
- Households
- 2455
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- Commons category
- Bear Lake County, Idaho
- topic's main category
- Category:Bear Lake County, Idaho
- water as percent of area
- 7.1
- native label
- Bear Lake County
- inception
- 1875-01-05
- Digital Atlas of Idaho URL
- digitalatlas.cose.isu.edu/counties/bearlake/bearlake.htm
- per capita income
- 27596
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Encyclopedic overview
Bear Lake County is a county in the U.S. state of Idaho. As of the 2020 United States census the county had a population of 6,372. The county seat is Paris, and Montpelier is the largest city.
The county is named after Bear Lake, a large lake at an elevation of 5,924 feet (1,806 m) above sea level. The northern half of the 20-mile-long (32-kilometer) lake is in Idaho, the southern half in Utah. The county was established in 1875 in the Idaho Territory, fifteen years before statehood.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Bear Lake County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.