Free Online Idaho City Directories

City and business directories are available online from all over the U.S. and are what I consider another important set of information that can assist you in advancing your family history and genealogy research.

This activity of presenting links is a collaborative effort between The Ancestor Hunt and Miriam Robbins, who for years has made available the Online Historical Directories website, which presents links to directories of all types that are available online, including free collections as well as those available only via subscription. I wish to thank Miriam for her help in launching this category of records at The Ancestor Hunt.

So, what kinds of directories are available to the researcher?  Naturally city and business directories, but also telephone directories, and alumni, farm, lodge, rural, and social directories.

What can you find in these records? How about:

• Full names, including middle names
• Spouse name
• Occupation
• Widows, working women, and adult children at home.
• Maps
• Businesses (and index to advertisers).
• Addresses and maps of churches, schools, funeral homes, cemeteries, post offices, courts, hospitals, benevolent associations, and newspapers.
• Whether a woman is a widow (including the name of her husband).
• List of marriages and deaths of the previous year.
• Death date.
• etc.

Here are a few good primers on the benefits of searching historical city and other directories:​

• FamilySearch – United States Directories
• How to Use City Directories In Your Genealogy Research 
• What’s In A City Directory? (a 10-article series about City Directories)

And here are various places where you can find other city directories online: 

• Where to Find City Directories Online

Note: Some of the links listed take you to a FamilySearch Collection of digital images. Near the bottom of the page under Film/Digital Notes is the name of each sub-collection. If there is a camera icon at the right of the name (in the Format column) then the collections’ images are browsable. If there is a camera with a key icon, it is only available at a Family History Center or affiliated library. If there is a film reel icon, then it is only available in microfilm format, not digital. To take full advantage, please make sure that you are logged in to FamilySearch. The results may be different if you are signed in, rather than not.

(Updated August 2023

Idaho City Directories

Links to these free collections are presented initially with statewide collections, followed in alphabetical order by city or county. Generally, the publishing company is included in the reference to the collection, along with the collection title, and the date(s) of the directory:

Statewide

•  1871 Rocky Mountain Directory and Colorado Gazetteer
•  1878 McKenney’s Pacific Coast Directory
•  1880 Pacific Coast Directory
•  1883 Pacific Coast Directory
•  1886 Pacific Coast Directory
•  Farm and Ranch Directory Blaine, Camas, Gooding, Jerome and Lincoln Counties, Idaho – 1966
•  Idaho State Gazetteer and Business Directory – V. 6 (1912-1913)
•  Idaho State Gazetteer and Business Directory – V. 7 (1914)
•  Idaho State Gazetteer and Business Directory – V. 8 (1916)
•  Idaho State Gazetteer and Business Directory, 1914
•  McKenney’s Pacific Coast Directory, 1883-1884
•  McKenney’s Pacific Coast Directory – California, Oregon, Washington, British Columbia, Nevada, Utah, Idaho and Montana, 1878
•  Oregon, Washington and Idaho Gazetteer and Business Directory, 1884-85
•  Pacific Coast Business Directory, 1867
•  Pacific Coast Business Directory, Langley, 1867
•  Pacific Coast Grange Directory, Bancroft, 1875
•  R.L. Polk & Co’s Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Alaska and British Columbia Gazetteers and Business Directories, 1886-1902
•  R.L. Polk & Co’s Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Alaska and British Columbia Gazetteers and Business Directories, 1886-1902
•  R.L. Polk & Co’s Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Alaska and British Columbia Gazetteers and Business Directories, 1886-1902
•  The Pacific Coast Business Directory for 1867
•  The Pacific Coast Business Directory, 1876-78
•  The Pacific Coast Directory
•  The Pacific Coast Directory 1880
•  The Pacific Coast Directory, 1871
•  The Pacific Coast Directory, 1878
•  The Rocky Mountain Directory,1871, including Colorado, Nevada, Idaho
•  Wolfe’s Mercantile Guide, Gazetteer, and Business Directory, 1878

Ada County

•  1918, Boise City and Ada County Directory
•  1923, Boise City and Ada County Directory
•  1927, Boise City and Ada County Directory

Bannock County

•  1960, Farm and Ranch Directory Power and Bannock Counties, Idaho
•  1964, Farm and Ranch Directory Power and Bannock Counties, Idaho

Bingham County

•  1965, Farm and Ranch Directory for Bingham, Butte & Custer Counties, Idaho

Blackfoot

•  Blackfoot (Bingham County) City Directory – 1960
•  Blackfoot (Bingham County) City Directory – 1962
•  Blackfoot (Bingham County) City Directory – 1964
•  Blackfoot (Bingham County) City Directory – 1965
•  Blackfoot (Bingham County) City Directory – 1981
•  Blackfoot (Bingham County) City Directory – 1993
•  Blackfoot (Bingham County, Idaho) City Directory – 1966
•  Blackfoot (Bingham County, Idaho) City Directory – 1969

Blaine County

•  1966, Farm and Ranch Directory Blaine, Camas, Gooding, Jerome and Lincoln Counties, Idaho

Boise

•  Boise City and Ada County Directory – 1911
•  Boise City and Ada County Directory – 1914
•  Boise City and Ada County Directory – 1978
•  Boise City and Ada County Directory – 1980
•  Boise City and Ada County Directory, 1918-1927
•  Polk Boise, City Directory – V. 3 (1905)
•  Polk Boise, Idaho, City Directory, 1905

Bonneville County

•  1969, Bonneville County Farm Directory

Butte County

•  1965, Farm and Ranch Directory for Bingham, Butte & Custer Counties, Idaho

Camas County

•  1966, Farm and Ranch Directory Blaine, Camas, Gooding, Jerome and Lincoln Counties, Idaho

Canyon County

•  1911, Canyon County, Directory,  also a Complete Classified Business Directory

Cassia County

•  1964, Farm and Ranch Directory Cassia & Minidoka Counties, Idaho
•  1966, Farm and Ranch Directory Cassia & Minidoka Counties, Idaho
•  1967, Farm and Ranch Directory Cassia & Minidoka Counties, Idaho
•  1978, Farm and Ranch Directory Cassia & Minidoka Counties, Idaho
•  1980, Farm and Ranch Directory Cassia & Minidoka Counties, Idaho
•  1981, Farm and Ranch Directory Cassia & Minidoka Counties, Idaho
•  1983, Farm and Ranch Directory Cassia & Minidoka Counties, Idaho

Custer County

•  1965, Farm and Ranch Directory for Bingham, Butte & Custer Counties, Idaho

Garfield County

•  1921, Polk’s Whitman, Garfield and Latah Counties Directory

Gooding County

•  1966, Farm and Ranch Directory Blaine, Camas, Gooding, Jerome and Lincoln Counties, Idaho

Idaho Falls

•  Idaho Falls (Bonneville County) City Directory – 1941
•  Idaho Falls (Bonneville County) City Directory – 1952
•  Idaho Falls (Bonneville County) City Directory – 1981
•  Idaho Falls (Bonneville County) City Directory – 1982
•  Idaho Falls (Bonneville County) City Directory – 1983
•  Idaho Falls (Bonneville County) City Directory – 1986
•  Idaho Falls (Bonneville County, Idaho) City Directory – 1908

Jerome County

•  1966, Farm and Ranch Directory Blaine, Camas, Gooding, Jerome and Lincoln Counties, Idaho

Kellogg

•  1966, Kellogg, Wallace, Osburn & Mullan, Idaho, City Directory

Kootenai County

•  Kootenai County Directory, 1938

Latah County

•  1921, Polk’s Whitman, Garfield and Latah Counties Directory
•  Polk’s Whitman, Garfield and Latah Counties Directory – 1921-1922

Lewiston

•  Lewiston, Idaho, Clarkston, Washington City Directory – 1953
•  Lewiston, Idaho, Clarkston, Washington City Directory – 1956
•  Lewiston, Idaho, Clarkston, Washington City Directory – 1958
•  Lewiston, Idaho, Clarkston, Washington City Directory – 1959-1960
•  Lewiston, Idaho, Clarkston, Washington City Directory – 1961
•  Lewiston, Idaho, Clarkston, Washington City Directory – 1962
•  Lewiston, Idaho, Clarkston, Washington City Directory – 1965
•  Lewiston, Idaho; Clarkston, Washington, including Clarkston Heights North Lewiston and Lewiston Orchards,  1956

Lewiston County

•  1908, Lewiston and Nez Perce County, Idaho, Directory

Lincoln County

•  1966, Farm and Ranch Directory Blaine, Camas, Gooding, Jerome and Lincoln Counties, Idaho

Minidoka County

•  1964, Farm and Ranch Directory Cassia & Minidoka Counties, Idaho
•  1966, Farm and Ranch Directory Cassia & Minidoka Counties, Idaho
•  1967, Farm and Ranch Directory Cassia & Minidoka Counties, Idaho
•  1973, West End Fire Protection District Directory
•  1978, Farm and Ranch Directory Cassia & Minidoka Counties, Idaho
•  1980, Farm and Ranch Directory Cassia & Minidoka Counties, Idaho
•  1981, Farm and Ranch Directory Cassia & Minidoka Counties, Idaho
•  1983, Farm and Ranch Directory Cassia & Minidoka Counties, Idaho

Moscow

•  1899 Moscow City Directory
•  1899 Moscow City Directory

Mullan

•  1966, Kellogg, Wallace, Osburn & Mullan, Idaho, City Directory

Nez Perce County

•  1908, Lewiston and Nez Perce County, Idaho, Directory,  Directories of Clarkeston, Wash., Culdesac, Ilo, Kamiah, Kippen Nezperce, Orofino, Peck, Reubens, Vollmer..
•  1956, Lewiston, Idaho; Clarkston, Washington including Clarkston Heights North Lewiston and Lewiston Orchards

Osburn

•  Kellogg, Wallace, Osburn & Mullan, Idaho, City Directory, 1966

Owhyee County

•  Owyhee County, A Historical, descriptive and commercial Directory, 1898
•  Owyhee County, A Historical, descriptive and commercial Directory, January 1898
•  A Historical, Descriptive and Commercial Directory of Owyhee County, Idaho 1898
•  Owyhee County Business Directory, Owyhee Avalanche, 1898

Pocatello

•  Business Directory of Preston, Idaho; Pocatello, Idaho, 1908-1909

Power County

•  1960, Farm and Ranch Directory Power and Bannock Counties, Idaho
•  1964, Farm and Ranch Directory Power and Bannock Counties, Idaho

Preston

•  Business Directory of Preston, Idaho; Pocatello, Idaho, 1908-1909

Rexburg

•  Rexburg, Sugar City and Rigby City Directory – 1960

Shoshone County

•  1966, Kellogg, Wallace, Osburn & Mullan, Idaho, City Directory

St. Anthony

•  St. Anthony, Fremont County City Directory – 1960-1961

Twin Falls

•  Twin Falls (Twin Falls County, Idaho) City Directory – 1978
•  Twin Falls (Twin Falls County, Idaho) City Directory – 1979
•  Twin Falls (Twin Falls County, Idaho) City Directory – 1980
•  Twin Falls (Twin Falls County, Idaho) City Directory – 1981
•  Twin Falls (Twin Falls County, Idaho) City Directory – 1982
•  Twin Falls (Twin Falls County, Idaho) City Directory – 1983
•  Twin Falls (Twin Falls County, Idaho) City Directory – 1984
•  Twin Falls (Twin Falls County, Idaho) City Directory – 1986
•  Twin Falls (Twin Falls County, Idaho) City Directory – 1987
•  Twin Falls (Twin Falls County, Idaho) City Directory – 1988

Twin Falls County

•  Farm and Ranch Directory, for Twin Falls County, Idaho – 1965
•  Farm and Ranch Directory, for Twin Falls County, Idaho – 1966
•  Farm and Ranch Directory, for Twin Falls County, Idaho – 1967
•  Official Farm and Ranch Directory Twin Falls County, Idaho – May 1965

Wallace

•  1966, Kellogg, Wallace, Osburn & Mullan, Idaho, City Directory

Whitman County

•  1921, Polk’s Whitman, Garfield and Latah Counties Directory