CODEBOOK FOR THE 1880 IDAHO CENSUS (Copyright, Idaho State Board of Education, 1986)
Columns 1 and 2 B COUNTY CODES
1 = Ada
2 =Alturas
3 = Bear Lake
4 = Boise
5 = Cassia
6 = Idaho
7 = Kootenai
8 = Lemhi
9 = Nez Perce
10 = Oneida
11 = Owyhee
12 = Shoshone
13 = Washington
Columns 3 and 4 B PLACE CODES (township, town, city, etc.) BY COUNTY
ADA COUNTY (CODE 1 in columns 1 and 2)
1 B Boise City
2 B District #2
3 B Payette Valley
4 B Upper Boise Valley
5 B Boise Barracks
ALTURAS COUNTY (CODE 2 in columns 1 and 2)
1 B Wood Creek
2 B Mountain Home
3 B Canyon Creek
4 B Indian Creek
5 B Slater=s Creek
6 B King Hill
7 B Eureka Bar
8 B Payne=s Ranche
9 B Glenn=s Ferry
10 B Cold Springs and Bennett Creek
11 B Rocky Bar Precinct
12 B Middle Boise Precinct
13 B Atlanta Mining Camp
14 B Yuba Mining Camp
15 B Brownesburg Mining Camp
16 B Johnson=s Mining Camp
17 B Big Bar Mining Camp
18 B Gooderich Ranch
19 B Alturas Bar Mining Camp
20 B Lucky Boy Mining Camp
21 B Stanley Basin Mining Camp
22 B Saw Tooth City Mining Camp
23 B Wood River Mining District
BEAR LAKE COUNTY (CODE 3 in columns 1 and 2)
1 B Paris
2 B Georgetown
3 B Bennington
4 B Montpelier
5 B Berne
6 B Ovid
7 B Liberty
8 B Fish Haven
9 B Fish Haven Precinct
10 B Saint Charles
11 B Saint Charles Precinct
12 B Bloomington
13 B Bloomington Precinct
14 B Preston
15 B Thomas Fork of Bear River
16 B East of Bear Lake
17 B Cottonwood Settlement and Dingle Dell
BOISE COUNTY (CODE 4 in columns 1 and 2)
1 B Idaho City
2 B Slaughter Hill and Buena Vista
3 B N. Elk Creek and M. Elk Creek
4 B Idaho City and Moores Creek and Suburbs
5 B Steamboat Gulch et. al.
6 B Moore=s Creek
7 B Gambrines Dist. et. al.
8 B Grimes Creek et. al.
9 B Willow Creek et. al
10 B Boise City and Idaho Road
11 B Shaws Mountain et. al.
12 B Dagger Gulch et. al
13 B Moons Creek et. al.
14 B Banner Quartz Dist.
15 B Placerville
16 B Centerville
17 B Pioneer
18 B Summit Flat
19 B Garden Valley
20 B Dead Wood
21 B District 12, enumerated
CASSIA COUNTY (CODE 5 in columns 1 and 2)
1 B Oakley Albion Precinct (City)
2 B Goose Creek
3 B Marsh Basin
4 B Cassia Creek
5 B Clear Creek
6 B Sublett
7 B Bonanza Bar
8 B Albion (number 1)
9 B Goose Creek Valley
10 B Rock Creek Valley
11 B Salmon Falls
12 B Albion (number 2)
13 B 14th District
IDAHO COUNTY (CODE 6 in columns 1 and 2)
1 B Washington
2 B Enumeration District #16
3 B Enumeration District #17
4 B Grangeville Precinct (City)
5 B Mt. Idaho Precinct
6 B Camp Howard
7 B Elk City District
KOOTENAI COUNTY (CODE 7 in columns 1 and 2)
1 B Spokane Prairie, Post, Frederick
2 B Bonanzy City
3 B Military Post, Coeur d'Alene Lake
4 B Little Falls
LEMHI COUNTY (CODE 8 in columns 1 and 2)
1 B Bonanza
2 B Custer
3 B Salmon City
4 B District 20
5 B Lemhi Valley, and Salmon City Precinct
6 B Challis
NEZ PERCE COUNTY (CODE 9 in columns 1 and 2)
1 B Vicinity of Lewiston
2 B Fort Lapwai
3 B Nez Perce Indian Agency and Vicinity
4 B Clear Water Road
5 B Tammany Hollow
6 B Vicinity of Tammany Hollow
7 B Vicinity of Lewiston and Tammany Road
8 B Waha Prairie
9 B Waha Prairie and Tammany Hollow
10 B City of Lewiston
11 B Snake River Mines
12 B Township 36
13 B Township 37
14 B Township 37 and 38
15 B Township 38
16 B Township 38 and 39
17 B Township 39 and 40
18 B Township 40
19 B Village of Moscow
20 B Township 41
21 B Palouse Bridge Pct.
22 B Camas Creek Pct.
23 B Pine Creek Dist.
ONEIDA COUNTY (CODE 10 in columns 1 and 2)
1 B Franklin Precinct
2 B Oxford Precinct
3 B Weston Precinct
4 B Weston Precinct and Oxford Precinct
5 B Oxford and Soda Springs Precinct
6 B Soda Springs Precinct
7 B Stocktonn and Battle Creek
8 B Malad City
9 B Malad City and St. John
10 B Malad Valley
11 B Malad and Rock Creek Valley
12 B Rock Creek
13 B Curlew
14 B Four Mile Creek
15 B Bannock Valley, Samaria etc.
16 B Samaria and surrounding
17 B Samaria
18 B Marsh Valley
19 B Blackfoot Precinct
20 B Fort Hall
21 B Portneuf Canon
22 B Pleasant Valley and Beaver Canon
23 B Eagle Rock and Willow Creek
24 B Cedar Butte District
25 B Ross Fork Indian Agency
26 B Market Lake District
27 B Market Lake and Camas Precinct
28 B Camas Precinct
29 B Portneuf Precinct
30 -- Upper Mound Valley
31 B Carabou Pct.
32 B Towa Bar
33 B Cross Roads Grays Lake
34 B 10 Mile Spring
35 B Grand Creek
36 B Salt River Valley
OWYHEE COUNTY (CODE 11 in columns 1 and 2)
1 B Reynolds Creek
2 B Reynolds Creek and Fairview
3 B Fairview and Sinker Creek
4 B Fairview
5 B Sinker and Catharine Creeks
6 B Bruneau
7 B Scattered Parts
8 B Enumeration District #29, Silver City
9 B Enumeration District #29
SHOSHONE COUNTY (CODE 12 in columns 1 and 2)
1 B Enumeration District #30
2 BEnumeration District #30
WASHINGTON COUNTY (CODE 13 in columns 1 and 2)
1 B Lower Weiser Valley
2 B Mans Creek
3 B Middle Weiser Valley
4 B Pine Valley and Health District
5 B Upper Weiser Valley
6 B Indian Valley
7 B Counsil Valley
8 B Hornet and Litttle Salmon Valley
9 B Monroe Creek Valley
10 B Warm Spring Creek
Columns 5 - 7 B PAGE #
Columns 8 - 9 B LINE #
Column 10 B BLANK
Columns 11 - 13 B # OF DWELLING HOUSE, IN ORDER OF VISITATION
Column 14 B BLANK
Columns 15 - 17 B # OF FAMILY, IN ORDER OF VISITATION
Columns 18 - 49 B NAME OF INDIVIDUAL (LAST, FIRST, MIDDLE OR INITIAL -- ... indicates illegible)
Column 50 -- COLOR OR RACE
1 = white
2 = black
3 = mulatto
4 = Chinese
5 = Indian
6 = half-white, half-Indian
9 = other
Column 51 B GENDER
1 = male
2 = female
3 = missing
Columns 52 - 54 B AGE
Columns 55 - 56 B RELATIONSHIP TO HEAD OF HOUSEHOLD
1 = head
2 = wife
3 = daughter
4 = stepdaughter
5 = son
6 = step-son
7 = father/or step-
8 = mother/or step-
9 = mother-in-law
10 = father-in-law
11 = son-in-law
12 = daughter-in-law
13 = boarder
14 = cousin
15 = brother
16 = adopted daughter
17 = niece/grand-niece
18 = servant
19 = sister-in-law
20 = grandson
21 = nephew--grand
22 = uncle
23 = adopted son
24 = brother-in-law
25 = hired man/servant/hired girl/hired boy
26 = laborer
27 = granddaughter
28 = half-sister
29 = visitor
30 = partner
31 = assistant
32 = patient
33 = grandmother
34 = boss
35= hand, hired hand
36= niece B grand
37 = sister
38 = husband
39 = nephew
40 = nurse
41 = lodger
42 = waiter
43 = employee
44 = servant
45 = boarder
46 = prisoner
47 = clerk
48 = cook
49 = porter
50 = hostler
51 = housekeeper
52 = pedlar
53 = keepmate
54 = student
55 = chore boy
56 = pauper
57 = friend
58 = orphan
59 = messmate
60 = mistress
61 = wood chopper
62 = traveler
63 = step-sister-in-law
64 = guard
65 = tenant
66 = twin brother
67 = herder
68 = works on farm
69 = works in sawmill
70 = runs engine
71 = any other occupational relationship
81 = father/or step-
82 = mother/or step-
83 = mistress
91 = step-brother
Column 57 B MARITAL STATUS
1 = single
2 = married
3 = widow/divorced
4 = other/none
Columns 69 - 72 -- OCCUPATION
1 -- farmer
2 -- keeping house/camp
3 -- at school
4 -- laborer/common/light/handyman
5 -- miner
6 -- soldier
7 -- carpenter/house carpenter
8 -- baker/retired
9 -- blacksmith/works in iron/makes iron utensils
10 -- clerk/clerk in store/cashier
11 -- mechanic
12 -- merchant (gen. mdse.)
13 -- gambler
14 -- prostitute/courtesan
15 -- lumberman/logger
16 -- rail splitter
17 -- minister/clergyman/priest/preacher
18 -- justice of the peace
19 -- bookkeeper
20 -- teamster
21 -- herdsman/herding/herdsboy/herder/stockherder
22 -- barber
23 -- cook/hotel cook/assistant
24 -- tailor/ess
25 -- doctor
26 -- garder
27 -- wood sawer/chopper/cutter
28 -- saloon keeper/bar keeper
29 -- hotel/innkeeper/landlady
30 -- engineer
31 -- attorney/attorney at law/lawyer
32 -- nurse/midwife
33 -- brick mason
34 -- free dealer/horse dealer/news dealer/dealer in ag. equip.
35 -- painter (house)/seals/paints in oils
36 -- shoemaker
37 -- stone mason
38 -- signal service/U.S. signal station
39 -- packer/packtrain man
40 -- butcher
41 -- mail carrier/asst. postmaster
42 -- Co. recorder
43 -- tanner
44 -- harness maker
45 -- works at home/at home hired
46 -- printer
47 -- stock grower/stockman/stock raiser/stock dealer/tending stock
48 -- furniture finisher
49 -- wheelwright
50 -- cattle driver
51 -- seamstress
52 -- freighter/freighty
53 -- dentist
54 -- gunsmith
55 -- school teacher/school matron
56 -- sheepherder/shepherd
57 -- druggist/drug store owner
58 -- miller
59 -- stagecoach worker/driver/station keeper
60 -- civil engineer/design & construction/contractor
61 -- surveyor
62 -- washman/washes clothes/washer woman/wash/ironing
63 -- farm laborer/dairy worker/works on farm/works on dairy/stableworker/dairy woman
64 -- shake maker/shingle mill
65 B common laborer
66 -- at service/servant
67 -- saddler/saddle & harness maker
68 -- mill sawer/works at sawmill/mill hand
69 -- prospector
70 -- Indian trader
71 -- makes railroad ties
72 -- photographer
73 -- gardener
74 -- brickmaker
75 -- cattle buyer
76 -- potter
77 -- furniture dealer
78 B farm laborer
79 -- rancher
80 -- cheesemaker
81 B herdsman/herdsboy/herder/stockherder
82 -- mariner
83 -- paper carrier/delivery boy
84 -- insurance adjuster
85 -- well digger
86 -- farmer's wife
87 -- grist miller
88 -- waiter/waitress
89 -- milliner
90 -- tinsmith/tinner
91 -- assayor
92 -- ferry keeper/keeps ferry
93 -- expressman
94 -- County Auditor
95 -- County Assessor
96 -- plasterer
97 -- jeweler
98 -- express messenger
99 -- door & sash man
100 -- dreyman/drayman
101 -- gauger
102 -- trader
103 -- driver
104 -- carpenter & painter
105 -- brewer
106 -- mouldmaker/moulder
107 -- cabinet maker
108 -- wagon maker
109 -- drover
110 -- fisherman
111 -- machinist
112 -- millwright
113 -- superintendent of schools
114 -- assessor & collector
115 -- sawyer
116 -- weaver
117 -- wood turner
118 -- scribe
119 -- salesman/traveling salesman
120 -- cooper
121 -- wife/housewife
122 -- keeps house & farm
123 -- music master
124 -- at home
125 -- builder
126 -- dressmaker/glovemaker
127 -- city marshall
128 -- banker
129 -- grocery clerk
130 -- governor
131 -- hotel clerk
132 -- hairdresser
133 -- Internal Revenue Collector Office
134 -- Indian Agent
135 -- clergyman
136 -- chambermaid
137 -- livery stable keeper/stableman
138 -- servant housekeeper/nursemaid
139 -- mining expert
140 -- musician/trumpeter
141 -- physician/surgeon
142 -- probate judge
143 -- retired judge
144 -- Receiver U.S. Law Office
145 -- Superior Court Judge
146 -- lumber merchant
147 -- telegraph operator
148 -- real estate agent/loan agent
149 -- boilermaker
150 -- publisher/newspaper
151 -- Register of U.S. Land Office
152 -- sewing machine agent
153 B saloon keeper
154 -- keeping boarding house
155 -- bartender
156 -- cigar stand keeper
157 -- keeps restaurant
158 -- Div. Agt. Stage Line
159 -- restauranteur
160 -- County Treasurer
161 -- city treasurer
162 -- retired saloon keeper
163 -- draftsman
164 B wagon maker
165 -- cattle raiser
166 -- County Sheriff/city marshall
167 -- deputy sheriff/sheriff
168 -- chair maker
169 -- music teacher
170 -- army officer/retired
171 -- auctioneer
172 -- none
173 -- brakeman
174 -- bank taller
175 -- coffee house keeper
176 -- conductor (RR)
177 -- cattle handler
178 -- clerk/dry goods
179 -- dry goods dealer
180 -- driving Rome Wagon
181 -- dishwasher
182 -- boarding housekeeper
183 -- fireman
184 -- Dep. U.S. marshall
185 -- helping father
186 -- helping mother
187 -- fireman
188 -- goldminer
189 -- grocer/retailed
190 B grocer/produce
191 -- house buyer
192 -- hospital steward
193 -- hotel steward
194 -- Indian Agent clerk
195 -- hide and fur buyer/merchant
196 -- hunter and scout
197 -- jailer
198 -- loafer
199 -- janitor
200 -- prisoner co. jail
201 -- keeping hotel
202 -- [missing]
203 -- legislator
204 -- lawyer
205 -- living with family
206 -- magician
207 -- missionary
208 -- mattress maker
209 -- trapper
210 -- military master
211 -- postmaster/mistress
212 -- plumber and gasfitter
213 -- packtrain owner
214 -- porter
215 -- car repairer
216 -- river man/raftsman/steamboat hand
217 -- RR worker
218 B stock raiser
219 -- stock broker
220 -- stone cutter
221 -- track foreman
222 -- track repairer
223 -- supt. salt works
224 -- watch tinker
225 -- wool worker
226 -- watchman
227 -- visitor
228 -- vacquero
229 -- traveler
230 -- salooner
231 -- school matron's assistant
232 -- sutter
233 -- saw mill owner
234 -- working out (relationship -- servant)
235 -- artist/painter/stretcher
236 -- station agent
237 -- roofer
238 -- veterinarian
239 -- RR clerk
240 -- bank cashier or teller
241 -- auditor
242 -- accountant
245 -- bath house keeper
246 -- backer
247 -- brewer's helper
248 -- broommaker
249 -- bookmaker
250 -- bank cashier or teller
251 -- coal burner
252 -- county surveyor
253 -- cook for packtrain
254 -- cigar maker
255 -- cook for mine
256 -- ditchdigger
257 -- drug clerk
258 -- ditch tender
259 -- deputy treasurer
260 -- deals in cattle
261 -- electrician
262 -- editor (journal or newspaper)
266 -- farmer & stockraiser
267 -- farm manager
268 B farmer and hog raiser
269 -- farm cook
270 B farmer for Lemhi Indian Agency
271 -- geologist
272 -- general sewing
273 -- house trainer
274 -- hotel worker
275 -- hatmaker
276 -- herb doctor
277 -- huckster
278 -- hostler
279 -- hosemaker
280 -- halfway house
281 -- interpreter
286 -- judge of supreme court
287 -- josh (Chinese) keeper
288 -- keeps hash house
289 -- keeps meat market
290 -- keeps saloon
291 -- keeps gambling house
292 -- keeps laundry
293 -- keeps store
294 -- keeps ferry
295 -- keeping camp
296 -- laundry worker/laundress
297 -- liquor dealer
298 -- land lady
299 -- lumber manufacture
301 -- miner and farmer
302 -- medical student
303 -- metallurgist
304 -- mine manager
305 -- mine owner
306 -- news dealer
311 -- partner (business)
312 -- pedlar
313 -- placer miner
314 -- quartz miner
315 -- retired merchant
316 -- R.R. foreman
317 -- retired farmer
318 -- raising horses
319 -- retired laborer
320 -- retail grocer
321 -- stable keeper
322 -- sail maker
323 -- stationery
324 -- sheriff
325 -- stock driver
326 -- tin smith (ship builder also)
327 -- toll gate keeper/keeping toll house
329 -- tavern
330 -- upholsterer
336 -- works on ditch
337 -- works at assay office
338 -- works in mine
339 -- watch maker
341 -- sheep shearer
345 B book keeper
346 -- boot and shoe cutter
347 -- bridge tender
348 -- bridge owner
356 -- dairyman
365 -- farmer and miner
373 -- housekeeper
374 -- helps in housework
375 -- housekeeping
376 -- hotel
383 -- jeweler/assistant
384 -- job wagon
390 -- keeping house
401 -- misherman
402 -- mining engineer
403 -- military contractor
410 -- prison warden
411 -- prison guard
412 -- phrenologist
419 -- road supervisor
420 -- retired captain
421 -- retired miner
422 -- retired dishwasher
426 -- sailor
427 -- smelter
439 -- umbrella maker
440 -- unemployed
444 -- with mother
445 -- works in quartz mill
500 -- sweet maker/candy maker
501 -- ice cream maker
502 -- lieutenant/U.S. Cav.
503 -- sergeant/U.S. Cav.
504 -- sergeant/infantry
505 -- corporal/infantry
506 -- trumpeter/U.S. Cav.
507 -- corporal/U.S. Cav.
508 -- lieutenant/infantry
509 -- captain/U.S. Cav.
510 -- captain/infantry
511 -- major/U.S. Cav.
512 -- major/infantry
513 -- colonel/U.S. Cav.
514 -- colonel/infantry
515 -- general/U.S. Cav.
516 -- general/infantry
517 -- nursemaid
540 -- Yankee notion dealer
Column 62 B DISABILITY
1 = blind
2 = deaf & dumb
3 = idiotic
4 = insane
5 = maimed/crippled/bedridden/otherwise disabled
Column 63 B EDUCATION
1 = attended school in last census year
2 = cannot read
3 = cannot write
4 = both 2 & 3
5 = both 1 & 2
6 = both 1 & 3
7 = 1, 2, & 3
Columns 64 - 66 B PLACE OF BIRTH OF INDIVIDUAL (see codes below)
Columns 67 - 69 B PLACE OF BIRTH OF FATHER (see codes below)
Columns 70 - 72 B PLACE OF BIRTH OF MOTHER (see codes below)
1 -- Connecticut
2 -- Maine
3 -- Massachusetts
4 -- New Hampshire
5 -- Rhode Island
6 -- Vermont
11 -- Delaware
12 -- New Jersey
13 -- New York
14 -- Pennsylvania
21 -- Illinois
22 -- Indiana
23 -- Michigan
24 -- Ohio
25 -- Wisconsin
31 -- Iowa
32 B Kansas
33 -- Minnesota
34 -- Missouri
35 -- Nebraska
36 -- North Dakota
37 -- South Dakota
41 -- Alabama
42 -- Arkansas
43 -- Florida
44 -- Georgia
45 -- Louisiana
46 -- Mississippi
47 -- North Carolina
48 -- South Carolina
49 -- Texas
50 -- Virginia
51 -- Kentucky
52 -- Maryland
53 -- Oklahoma
54 -- Tennessee
55 -- Washington D.C.
56 -- West Virginia
61 -- Arizona
62 -- Colorado
63 -- Idaho
64 -- Montana
65 -- Nevada
66 -- New Mexico
67 -- Utah
68 -- Wyoming
71 -- California
72 -- Oregon
73 -- Washington
81 -- Alaska
82 -- Hawaii
100 -- Prussia
101 -- Brunswick
102 -- China (general)
103 -- China - Canton
104 -- China - Whampoa
105 -- China - Hong Kong
106 -- China - Shanghai
107 -- China - Peking
108 -- England
109 -- Russia
110 -- Ireland
111 -- Bavaria
112 -- Finland
113 -- Saint Croix
114 -- Australia
115 -- Scotland
116 -- Canada
117 -- Wales
118 -- Holstein
119 -- Hesse-Darmstadt
120 -- Sandwich Islands
121 -- Switzerland
122 -- Denmark
123 -- Wurtenburg
124 -- Norway
125 -- France
126 -- Baden
127 -- Italy
128 -- Poland
129 -- Sandwich Islands
130 -- Sweden
131 -- Belgium
132 -- Germany
133 -- Wittenburgh
134 -- Hesse-Grand
135 -- British Columbia
136 -- Hanover
137 -- Holland
138 -- Luxemburg
139 -- Gibraltar
140 -- Atlantic Ocean
141 -- Saxony
142 -- Austria
143 -- Strasburg
144 -- Mexico
145 -- Dakota
146 -- South Africa/Africa
147 -- New Brunswick
148 -- America
149 -- USA
150 -- LA
151 -- South Wales
152 -- Isle of Man
153 B Wurtemburg
154 -- Washington Territory
155 -- Hessen
156 -- Hungary
157 -- New Zealand
158 -- Hapsburg
159 -- Cherokee Nation
160 -- W. Indies
161 -- Prince Edward Island
162 -- Calcutta
165 -- Cologne
166 -- Quebec
167 -- New Foundland
168 -- Hesse-Grand
169 -- Ontario
170 -- At Sea
171 -- Mecklenburg
172 -- Alsace
172 -- Peru
173 -- Prince Edward Island
175 -- Spain
176 -- Nassau
177 -- Nicaragua
178 -- Frankfort-on-Main
179 -- Bohemia
180 -- Norway
181 -- Brazil
182 -- Hamburg
183 -- Jamaica
184 -- Cuba
185 -- Holstein
186 -- Aldenbrush
187 -- Portugal
188 -- Wittenburgh
189 -- Slavonia
190 -- Netherlands
191 -- Canada - East
192 -- Canada - West
193 -- Doubtful
194 -- Bremen
195 -- Plann
196 -- Unknown
197 -- Darmstadt
198 -- Hamburg
199 -- Indian Territory
200 -- Panama
201 -- Elessia
202 -- Drixemburg
203 -- Wertenberg
204 -- Frankfort-on-Main
205 -- Hesse Castle
206 -- Was an Indian
207 -- Shangchao
208 -- Westphalia
209 B Canada (English)
210 B Canada (French)
Columns 73 - 80 B BLANK