Council’s history is
mostly unwritten
The public archives hold only 5 old photos of Council. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.
The story so far
from Wikipedia & the U.S. CensusCouncil is a city in and the county seat of Adams County, Idaho, United States. The population was 867 at the 2020 census.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 839 to 867 (+3%). Half of its homes were built before 1972.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Council yet — the old photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Intro from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Population and housing: U.S. Census Bureau.
Timeline
built from the dates on the items belowStart Council’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Council’s history is told.
1 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🗓️Date a photo2 archive items have no date+2 🔁Retake an old viewMain Street, East, 1908: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Famous people from Council
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Council, decade by decade
1990s
unknown2 items
2 historic places in Council
2 places in Council are on the National Register of Historic Places, the country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.
Where they are
When they were listed
Then & now
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as Main Street, East (1908) and it appears here side by side.
🔁 Retake this view · +15Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom Wikimedia Commons (5), the Library of Congress (5) and the National Register (2). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.