Bear Lake County

administration
Bear Lake County Courthouse
US state :	Idaho
Administrative headquarters :	Paris
Address of the administrative headquarters:	County Courthouse P.O. Box 190 Paris, ID 83261-0190
Foundation :	January 5, 1875
Made up from:	Oneida County
Area code :	001 208
Demographics
Residents :	5986 (2010)
Population density :	2.4 inhabitants / km ²
geography
Total area :	2718 km²
Water surface :	202 km²
map

Website : www.bearlakecounty.info

Bear Lake County is a county in the state of Idaho in the United States . The county seat is Paris .

geography

The county is located in the southeastern corner of Idaho, borders Wyoming to the east and Utah to the south and has an area of 2,718 square kilometers, of which 202 square kilometers are water. It is bordered clockwise by the following counties: Caribou County , Lincoln County in Wyoming, Rich County in Utah, and Franklin County .

history

Bear Lake County was formed on January 5, 1875 from parts of Oneida County. It was named after Bear Lake , a nearby lake.

The first settlers were smaller Shoshone tribes . The first whites were probably some trappers and scouts who explored the area in 1818. In 1819 Donald McKenzie camped by a lake and named it Black Bear Lake because of the many black bears that could be found there .

In 1836 a small mission to Christianize the Indians was set up and from 1841 the Oregon Trail ran through this area. In 1863, Brigham Young , second president and prophet of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, sent the first Mormons to settle here.

92 buildings and sites in the county are on the National Register of Historic Places .

Demographic data

growth of population
Census	Residents	± in%
1880	3235	-
1890	6057	87.2%
1900	7051	16.4%
1910	7729	9.6%
1920	8783	13.6%
1930	7872	-10.4%
1940	7911	0.5%
1950	6834	-13.6%
1960	7148	4.6%
1970	5801	-18.8%
1980	6931	19.5%
1990	6084	-12.2%
2000	6411	5.4%
2010	5986	-6.6%
Before 1900 1900–1990 2000 + 2010 Bear Lake County's age pyramid (as of 2000)

The Cecret Lake

West side of Mount Olympus , which in Utah is located

The Mount Timpanogos at sunset

As of the 2000 census , Bear Lake County's 6,411 people lived in 2,259 households and 1,710 families. The population density was 3 people per square kilometer. The racial the population was composed of 97.66 percent white, 0.09 percent African American, 0.53 percent Native American, 0.08 percent Asian, 0.05 percent of residents from the Pacific island area and 1.08 percent from other ethnic groups Groups; 0.51 percent were descended from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 2.4 percent of the population.

Of the 2,259 households, 38.8 percent had children under the age of 18 living with them. 66.9 percent of them were married couples living together. 6.4 percent were single mothers and 24.3 percent were non-families. 22.2 percent were single households and 12.1 percent had people 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.81 and the average family size was 3.33 people.

33.0 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 7.4 percent between 18 and 24 years, 22.4 percent between 25 and 44 years, 21.7 percent between 45 and 64 years. 15.6 percent were 65 years or older. The median age was 36 years. For every 100 females there were 98.4 males. For every 100 women aged 18 and over there were 96.7 men.

The median household income was 32,162 USD , and the median income for a family 38,351 USD. Males had a median income of $ 33,958 versus $ 17,829 for females. The per capita income was $ 13,592. 7.1 percent of families and 9.6 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.