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County Information



Payette County was partitioned from Canyon County and established February 28, 1917, with its county seat at Payette.
Payette was originally settled as a railroad camp in the 1860s and called "Boomerang" for the log boom on the Payette River.
The site, and the community which grew around it, was later named in honor of the area's first white settler, Francois Payette, a Canadian fur trapper and explorer with the North West Company who arrived in 1818.



Cities
Fruitland ~ New Plymouth ~ Payette ~

Other Populated Places
Buckingham ~ Eiffie ~ Fort Wilson ~ French Corner ~ Gayway Corner ~ Hamilton Corner ~ Ingard ~
Palisades Corner ~ Payette Heights ~ Ramey ~ Sand Hollow ~ Washoe ~ Wood