{"id":2550,"date":"2023-04-05T14:57:52","date_gmt":"2023-04-05T14:57:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/?p=2550"},"modified":"2026-08-21T08:37:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T08:37:16","slug":"elmore-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/elmore-county\/","title":{"rendered":"Elmore County, Idaho"},"content":{"rendered":"

Elmore County is a county in Idaho, United States, stretching from the Snake River plain north into the Sawtooth and Boise mountains. It had a population of 28,666 at the 2020 census and covers 3,101 square miles (8,030 km2) centred near 43°20′N 115°28′W.<\/p>\n

Mountain Home is the county seat and its postal code is 83647. The county has 2 incorporated cities, 2 census-designated places, and several unincorporated mountain communities. It sits in the Mountain time zone.<\/p>\n

Towns & Villages in Elmore County<\/h2>\n

Elmore County splits sharply between the Snake River valley towns around Mountain Home and Glenns Ferry and a scatter of small, high-elevation mining and recreation communities in the Sawtooth and Boise National Forests to the north. CDP = census-designated place (unincorporated but tracked separately by the Census Bureau); Unincorp. = unincorporated place with no formal municipal government.<\/p>\n

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Place<\/th>\nType<\/th>\nPop.<\/th>\nZIP<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
Mountain Home<\/td>\nCity · seat<\/td>\n15,181<\/td>\n83647<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Glenns Ferry<\/td>\nCity<\/td>\n1,258<\/td>\n83623<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mountain Home AFB<\/td>\nCDP<\/td>\n4,102<\/td>\n83648<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Hammett<\/td>\nCDP<\/td>\n224<\/td>\n83627<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
King Hill<\/td>\nUnincorp.<\/td>\n—<\/td>\n83633<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Pine<\/td>\nUnincorp.<\/td>\n—<\/td>\n83647<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Featherville<\/td>\nUnincorp.<\/td>\n—<\/td>\n83647<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Atlanta<\/td>\nUnincorp.<\/td>\n—<\/td>\n83601<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Dixie<\/td>\nUnincorp.<\/td>\n—<\/td>\n—<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Rocky Bar<\/td>\nUnincorp.<\/td>\n—<\/td>\n—<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mayfield<\/td>\nUnincorp.<\/td>\n—<\/td>\n—<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Prairie<\/td>\nUnincorp.<\/td>\n—<\/td>\n—<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n

Rocky Bar is a 19th-century gold-rush ghost town in the Boise Mountains, now a handful of seasonal cabins. Atlanta and Featherville, though tiny, remain populated recreation and mining communities rather than true ghost towns and are treated separately from Rocky Bar.<\/p>\n

ZIP Codes<\/h2>\n