Dubois, ID

Dubois is the Clark County seat in eastern Idaho, an elevated city near the Caribou-Targhee National Forest and the long Interstate 15 corridor. The railroad helped create the town in the late nineteenth century, when tracks heading toward Montana needed flatter ground than the earlier settlement at Beaver. Dubois was named for Fred T. Dubois, an Idaho politician who became the state's first U.S. senator, and the city was established in 1892. Clark County was created in 1919 with Dubois as its seat. At roughly 5,148 feet, the town's high-desert setting is part of its daily character.

Clark County School District 161 connects local students with the county's only school district, while rodeos, the county fair, and community events keep the calendar rooted in ranch country. Six miles north, the U.S. Sheep Experiment Station studies sheep breeds and is one of the county's major employers. The surrounding region opens toward the Nez Perce National Historic Trail, Caribou-Targhee forest lands, fishing streams, working ranches, and the Lost Gold Trails Byway. Dubois combines county-seat duties with a distinctly open Idaho horizon. Its civic life runs through the school, courthouse, highway, fairgrounds, and the sheep and cattle country beyond town.