Princeton is a
census-designated place
A census-designated place (CDP) is a Place (United States Census Bureau), concentration of population defined by the United States Census Bureau for statistical purposes only.
CDPs have been used in each decennial census since 1980 as the counte ...
in
Latah County,
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), ...
, United States.
Description
Princeton is located on
Idaho State Highway 6
State Highway 6 (SH-6) is a state highway in northern Idaho running from the Washington state line near Potlatch to Santa. in length and generally runs southwest
Route description
SH-6 begins at the Washington state line in Latah County as ...
east-southeast of
Potlatch
A potlatch is a gift-giving feast practiced by Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast of Canada and the United States,Harkin, Michael E., 2001, Potlatch in Anthropology, International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Scienc ...
. Princeton has a
post office
A post office is a public facility and a retailer that provides mail services, such as accepting letter (message), letters and parcel (package), parcels, providing post office boxes, and selling postage stamps, packaging, and stationery. Post o ...
with
ZIP code 83857. As of the
2010 census, its population was 148.
History
A post office called Princeton has been in operation since 1894. The community was named after
Princeton, Minnesota
Princeton is a city in Mille Lacs and Sherburne counties in the U.S. state of Minnesota, at the junction of the Rum River and its West Branch. It is north of Minneapolis and east of St. Cloud, at the intersection of Highways 169 and 95. ...
, the native home of an early settler.
See also
*
List of census-designated places in Idaho
This article lists census-designated places (CDPs) in the U.S. state of Idaho. As of 2020, there were a total of 36 census-designated places in Idaho.
Census-Designated Places
See also
*List of cities in Idaho
* List of places in Idaho
Re ...
References
External links
Census-designated places in Latah County, Idaho
Census-designated places in Idaho
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