Camas County
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county in Idaho, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Idaho
- Founded
- February 6, 1917
- Named after
- Camas root
- Seat
- Fairfield
- Largest city
- Fairfield
- Total
- 1,079 sq mi (2,790 km )
- Land
- 1,074 sq mi (2,780 km )
- Water
- 4.5 sq mi (12 km ) 0.4%
- Estimate 2025
- 1,316
- Density
- 1/sq mi (0.39/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−7 ( Mountain )
- Summer dst
- UTC−6 ( MDT )
- Congressional district
- 2nd
- Website
- camascounty .id .gov
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Named after
- Camassia
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Idaho
- Contains
- Fairfield
- Capital
- Fairfield
- Population
- 1077
- Area
- 2795
- Shares border with
- Elmore County
- Official website
- camascounty.id.gov
- Image
- Camas County Courthouse, Fairfield, Idaho, USA.jpg
- Households
- 391
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- Commons category
- Camas County, Idaho
- topic's main category
- Category:Camas County, Idaho
- water as percent of area
- 0.4
- native label
- Camas County
- inception
- 1917-02-06
- Digital Atlas of Idaho URL
- digitalatlas.cose.isu.edu/counties/camas/camas.htm
- per capita income
- 31291
- topic has template
- Template:Camas County, Idaho
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Encyclopedic overview
Camas County is a county in the southern portion of the U.S. state of Idaho. The county seat and largest city is Fairfield. The county was established 109 years ago in 1917 by the Idaho Legislature with a partition of Blaine County on February 6. It is named for the camas root, or Camassia, a lily-like plant with an edible bulb found in the region, that Native Americans and settlers used as a food source. As of the 2020 census, the population was 1,077, making it the second-least populous county in the state, after Clark County.
Camas County is part of the Hailey, ID Micropolitan Statistical Area.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Camas County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.