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 November 2022)

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

• 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 – 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, Langley, 1867
• Pacific Coast Grange Directory, Bancroft, 1875
• The Pacific Coast Business Directory, 1876-78
• The Rocky Mountain Directory,1871, including Colorado, Nevada, Idaho

Bingham, Butte & Custer County

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

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

Boise

• Boise City and Ada County Directory, 1918-1927
• 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
• Polk Boise, City Directory – v. 3 (1905)
• Polk Boise, Idaho, City Directory, 1905

Cassia and Minidoka Counties

• Farm and Ranch Directory Cassia & Minidoka Counties, Idaho – 1964-1966
• 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, 1964-1983

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

Kellogg

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

Kootenai County

• Kootenai County Directory, 1938

Lewiston

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

Owyhee County

• Owyhee County, A Historical, descriptive and commercial Directory, 1898
• Owyhee County, A historical, descriptive and commercial Directory, January 1898
• Owyhee County Business Directory, Owyhee Avalanche, 1898

Power and Bannock County

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

Preston and Pocatello

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

Rexburg

• Rexburg, Sugar City and Rigby City Directory – 1960

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

Whitman County

• Polk’s Whitman, Garfield and Latah counties directory – 1921-1922