Lemhi is an
unincorporated rural service point on the
Lemhi River
The Lemhi River is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map, accessed May 3, 2011 river in Idaho in the United States. It is a tributary of the Salmon River, which in turn is tributary t ...
in
Lemhi County,
Idaho
Idaho ( ) is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the Western United States. To the north, it shares a small portion of the Canada–United States border with the province of British Columbia. It borders the states of Montana and Wyom ...
, United States. Lemhi is located on the east side of
Idaho State Highway 28
State Highway 28 (SH-28) is a state highway in Idaho which runs from Idaho State Highway 33 (SH-33) near Mud Lake to U.S. Route 93 in Salmon. The entire length of the route is designated as the Sacajawea Historic Byway by the state of Idaho.
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, south of
Tendoy
Tendoy is an unincorporated rural service point in Lemhi County, Idaho, United States, located at (44.9593700, -113.6447780) on State Highway 28, at an altitude of 4,842 feet (1,476 m). It consists of a small general store and house. ...
and northwest of
Leadore. Lemhi consists of a combined
general store and
post office
A post office is a public facility and a retailer that provides mail services, such as accepting letters and parcels, providing post office boxes, and selling postage stamps, packaging, and stationery. Post offices may offer additional serv ...
and a house. The post office services
ZIP code 83465. As with the county, the name "Lemhi" is a variant spelling of
Limhi
In the Book of Mormon, Limhi () was the third and final king of the second Nephite habitation of the land of Lehi-Nephi. He succeeded his father, Noah. Led by Ammon (a mulekite) Limhi escaped from the Lamanites with his people to the land of Zara ...
, a personage of the
Book of Mormon
The Book of Mormon is a religious text of the Latter Day Saint movement, which, according to Latter Day Saint theology, contains writings of ancient prophets who lived on the American continent from 600 BC to AD 421 and during an interlude date ...
.
History
Lemhi's population was just 5 in 1960.
See also
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Fort Lemhi
Fort Lemhi was a mission approximately two miles (3 km) north of present-day Tendoy, Idaho, occupied by Mormon missionaries from 1855 to 1858.
Approximately twenty-seven Mormon men left the Salt Lake Valley on May 18, 1855, as instructed by B ...
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Lemhi Pass
Lemhi Pass is a high mountain pass in the Beaverhead Mountains, part of the Bitterroot Range in the Rocky Mountains and within Salmon-Challis National Forest. The pass lies on the Montana-Idaho border on the continental divide, at an elevation o ...
References
Unincorporated communities in Lemhi County, Idaho
Unincorporated communities in Idaho
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