Custer is a

ghost town Ghost Town(s) or Ghosttown may refer to: * Ghost town, a town that has been abandoned Film and television * Ghost Town (1936 film), ''Ghost Town'' (1936 film), an American Western film by Harry L. Fraser * Ghost Town (1956 film), ''Ghost Town'' ...

in Custer County,

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. Established in 1877, it is at (44.3874133, -114.6959118), at an elevation of 6,470 feet (1,972 m). It lies along Yankee Fork Road southwest of the city of Challis, within the

Challis National Forest Challis may refer to: People * Challis (surname) Places * Challis, Idaho * Challis, New Zealand Other uses * Challis (crater), a crater on Earth's moon * Challis railway station * "Challis", a song by American heavy metal band Dio off their 2 ...

.USGS topographical maps accessed from it
GNIS feature record
/ref> In 1981, the community was listed on the

National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...

as a

historic district A historic district or heritage district is a section of a city which contains older buildings considered valuable for historical or architectural reasons. In some countries or jurisdictions, historic districts receive legal protection from c ...

. Although the district covers , only seven buildings retain enough historic integrity to qualify as

contributing properties In the law regulating historic districts in the United States, a contributing property or contributing resource is any building, object, or structure which adds to the historical integrity or architectural qualities that make the historic distric ...

. Most of Custer is now included in the

Land of the Yankee Fork State Park Land of the Yankee Fork State Park is a history-oriented public recreation area covering in Custer County, Idaho, United States. The state park interprets Idaho's frontier mining history, including the ghost towns Bayhorse, Bonanza, and Cust ...

, which also includes the nearby historic Yankee Fork

gold dredge A gold dredge is a placer mining machine that extracts gold from sand, gravel, and dirt using water and mechanical methods. The original gold dredges were large, multi-story machines built in the first half of the 1900s. Small suction machin ...

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Community profileLand of the Yankee Fork State Park
Yankee Fork gold dredge

Populated places established in 1877 Geography of Custer County, Idaho Ghost towns in Idaho Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Idaho Protected areas of Custer County, Idaho National Register of Historic Places in Custer County, Idaho Populated places on the National Register of Historic Places in Idaho 1877 establishments in Idaho Territory {{US-ghost-town-stub