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United States historic place


Delamar Historic District
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district

De Lamar, 1898
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Location	Owyhee County, Idaho
Nearest city	Silver City, Idaho
Coordinates	43°01′28″N 116°49′53″W / 43.02444°N 116.83139°W / 43.02444; -116.83139
Area	1,600 acres (650 ha)
Built	1889
NRHP reference No.	76000679
Added to NRHP	May 13, 1976

De Lamar (also DeLamar) is a ghost town in Owyhee County, Idaho, United States. Its elevation is 5,463 ft (1,665 m), and it is approximately 6 mi (9.7 km) west of Silver City. The community lies within an area governed by the Bureau of Land Management.

The community formed around the De Lamar Mine, which was established in 1888. Named for mining magnate and former sea captain Joseph Raphael De Lamar, the mine and community quickly boomed and busted, declining after 1890. Despite the community's decline, it continued to exist as a populated community for several decades; it was the location of a summer-only post office from 1917 to 1930.

In 1976, the ghost town was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as a historic district. Although the district included an area of approximately 1,600 acres (650 ha), only four of the community's buildings remained in sufficient condition to qualify as contributing properties.

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External links

Ghosttowns.com profile for De Lamar

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v t e Municipalities and communities of Owyhee County, Idaho, United States
County seat: Murphy
Cities	Grand View Homedale Marsing	Map of Idaho highlighting Owyhee County
CDPs	Bruneau Murphy
Unicorporated communities	Claytonia Dickshooter Givens Hot Springs Murphy Hot Springs Oreana Reynolds Riddle Wilson
Indian reservation	Duck Valley Indian Reservation‡
Ghost towns	De Lamar Dewey Grasmere Ruby City Silver City Wickahoney
Footnotes	‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties
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