Naples is a small

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in Boundary County, in the far north of

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. It lies south of the city of

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and north of Sandpoint, on U.S. Routes 2/ 95 in the

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. It is very close to the US-Canada border. The ZIP Code for Naples is 83847. Naples is near the land features of Caribou Ridge and Ruby Creek. The

Ruby Ridge Ruby Ridge was the site of an eleven-day siege in 1992 in Boundary County, Idaho, near Naples. It began on August 21, when deputies of the United States Marshals Service (USMS) initiated action to apprehend and arrest Randy Weaver under a bench ...

standoff of 1992, between federal agencies and the

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family, took place about from the city. It resulted in the deaths of three people, including a deputy US marshal and two of the Weaver family. It was named after the Italian city, from which many immigrant laborers had come who worked on building the first rail line through the region around 1890.

Geography

Naples is located at . The city has a total area of , of which, is land and is water.

References

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