Greer is an

unincorporated community An unincorporated area is a region that is not governed by a local municipal corporation. Widespread unincorporated communities and areas are a distinguishing feature of the United States and Canada. Most other countries of the world either have ...

Clearwater County, Idaho Clearwater County is a county located in the U.S. state of Idaho. As of the 2020 census, the population was 8,734. The county seat is Orofino. Established in 1911, the county was named after the Clearwater River. The county is home to North ...

, on the

Nez Perce Indian Reservation The Nez Percé (; autonym in Nez Perce language: , meaning "we, the people") are an Indigenous people of the Plateau who are presumed to have lived on the Columbia River Plateau in the Pacific Northwest region for at least 11,500 years.Ames, K ...

. Greer is located along the Clearwater River and

Idaho State Highway 11 Idaho State Highway 11 (SH-11) is a state highway in north central Idaho. It runs from U.S. Route 12 (US 12) near Greer, north to Forest Service Roads 246 and 247 near Headquarters. Route description SH-11 begins at an intersectio ...

, near the junction with

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(also known as the

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), southeast of Orofino. The serpentine Highway 11 gains over in elevation up the canyon grade to the

Weippe Prairie Weippe Prairie is a "beautiful upland prairie field of about nine by twenty miles of open farmland bordered by pine forests" at 3,000 feet elevation in Clearwater County, Idaho, at Weippe, Idaho. Camas flowers grow well there, and attracted ...

, where the starving

Lewis and Clark Expedition The Lewis and Clark Expedition, also known as the Corps of Discovery Expedition, was the United States expedition to cross the newly acquired western portion of the country after the Louisiana Purchase. The Corps of Discovery was a select gro ...

first met the

Nez Perce The Nez Percé (; autonym in Nez Perce language: , meaning "we, the people") are an Indigenous people of the Plateau who are presumed to have lived on the Columbia River Plateau in the Pacific Northwest region for at least 11,500 years.Ames, K ...

in September 1805, south of present-day Weippe.

History

The former unincorporated community of Fraser was located about west of Greer. Greer's population was 70 in 1960.

References

Unincorporated communities in Clearwater County, Idaho Unincorporated communities in Idaho {{ClearwaterCountyID-geo-stub