Cataldo is an

unincorporated community An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...

Kootenai The Kutenai ( ), also known as the Ktunaxa ( ; ), Ksanka ( ), Kootenay (in Canada) and Kootenai (in the United States), are an indigenous people of Canada and the United States. Kutenai bands live in southeastern British Columbia, norther ...

and

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counties in northern

Idaho Idaho ( ) is a landlocked U.S. state, state in the Pacific Northwest and Mountain states, Mountain West subregions of the Western United States. It borders Montana and Wyoming to the east, Nevada and Utah to the south, and Washington (state), ...

. Cataldo lies on the southeast banks of the

Coeur d'Alene River The Coeur d'Alene River flows from the Silver Valley into Lake Coeur d'Alene in the U.S. state of Idaho. The stream continues out of Lake Coeur d'Alene as the Spokane River. Before the Bunker Hill Smelter in the Kellogg area, which mined le ...

and

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passes the south side of the community. The community of

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lies along I-90 to the east.''Cataldo, Idaho,'' 7.5 Minute Topographic Quadrangle, USGS, 1985 The ZIP Code for Cataldo is 83810.

History

The nearby area was the site of the

Cataldo Mission Coeur d'Alene's Old Mission State Park is a heritage-oriented state park in northern Idaho in the western United States, preserving the Mission of the Sacred Heart, or Cataldo Mission, a national historic landmark. The park contains the churc ...

which lies west of the river in Kootenai County. It is a former mission established by the

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s and is a

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that is the site of the oldest building in the state of Idaho. Cataldo's population was estimated at 100 in 1909 and was also 100 in 1960.

References

Unincorporated communities in Kootenai County, Idaho Unincorporated communities in Shoshone County, Idaho Unincorporated communities in Idaho {{ShoshoneCountyID-geo-stub