Bingham County, Idaho Map
Explore Bingham County, Idaho with this interactive street and satellite map. Browse all 9 cities and towns in Bingham County below.
Interactive Map of Bingham County, Idaho
| County | Bingham |
| State | Idaho (ID) |
| County Seat | Blackfoot |
| Country | United States of America |
| Latitude | 43.200223 |
| Longitude | -112.382448 |
| Cities & Towns | 9 |
| Area Codes | 208 |
About Bingham County, Idaho
Bingham County occupies a significant expanse of the Snake River Plain, where the earth flattens into a vast, basalt-strewn basin that stretches toward distant, jagged skylines. The Snake River bisects this territory, carving a persistent, life-giving path through an arid landscape defined by sagebrush and volcanic rock. To the east, the land rises toward the high, cold ramparts of the mountain ranges, while the western reaches dissolve into the desolate, monochromatic beauty of lava fields. The air here carries a peculiar clarity, a sharpness that makes the horizon seem deceptively reachable, particularly during the transition from afternoon to evening when the light turns a bruised, metallic gold and the shadows of the low scrub stretch into long, thin fingers across the dust.
Bingham County emerged from the territorial legislature’s adjustments in the late nineteenth century, carved from a larger administrative region to better serve the needs of a growing population of farmers and stockmen. The county seat was established after a period of intense rivalry between competing settlements, eventually settling into a central position that honored the logistical demands of the irrigation era. Early settlers, drawn by the promise of fertile soil and the possibility of diverting water to transform the desert, brought with them the hard-edged stoicism required to break ground that had known only the hoofbeats of migratory herds. This history of reclamation is visible in the way the town grids are laid out with a rigid, geometric precision, standing as a defiant human reply to the sprawling, indifferent scale of the high desert.
Agriculture remains the primary pulse of the region, anchored by the rows of tubers that define the local industry and shape the seasonal rhythms of labor and harvest. Huge, circular irrigation pivots turn with a mechanical, hypnotic patience, casting green patterns against the tawny earth that can be seen clearly from the sky. The character of the people is forged by this reliance on the soil and the volatile temperament of the high-altitude climate, resulting in a culture that values self-reliance and the quiet maintenance of tradition. On cool autumn mornings, when the frost clings to the edges of the irrigation ditches and the sky is a pale, brittle blue, the county feels less like a political boundary and more like a vast, working landscape where the silence of the desert is only ever interrupted by the distant hum of a tractor or the sudden, sharp call of a meadowlark.
Cities and Towns in Bingham County
About This Bingham County Map Page
This page provides an interactive map of Bingham County, Idaho alongside links to detailed street maps for 9 cities and towns. The county seat is Blackfoot. Each city and town map page includes live weather, local news and precise GPS coordinates.
The Search Maps button below the county map opens USGS topographic maps and aerial imagery as base layers, with a labelled U.S. National Grid (USNG) overlay, a distance and bearing tool, and a single-fix GPS readout giving your USNG grid reference and latitude and longitude.
Location data is sourced from the USGS GNIS database and verified by coordinates, not name matching alone.
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Location data | USGS GNIS database; coordinates matched to 2020 US Census records |
