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Shoshone County
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county in Idaho, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Idaho
- Founded
- February 4, 1864
- Named after
- Shoshone tribe
- Seat
- Wallace
- Largest city
- Kellogg
- Total
- 2,635 sq mi (6,820 km )
- Land
- 2,630 sq mi (6,800 km )
- Water
- 5.5 sq mi (14 km ) 0.2%
- Estimate 2025
- 14,130
- Density
- 5.01/sq mi (1.93/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−8 ( Pacific )
- Summer dst
- UTC−7 ( PDT )
- Congressional district
- 1st
- Website
- shoshonecounty .id .gov
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Shoshone County shə-SHOHN is a county in the U.S. state of Idaho. As of the 2020 census, the population was 13,169. The county seat is Wallace and the largest city is Kellogg. The county was established in 1864, named for the Native American Shoshone tribe.
Shoshone County is commonly referred to as the Silver Valley, due to its century-old mining history. The Silver Valley is famous nationwide for the vast amounts of silver, lead, and zinc mined from it.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Shoshone County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.