Murphy, ID

Murphy is a census-designated place in and the county seat of Owyhee County, Idaho, United States. The 2020 census counted 2020 residents. Murphy is part of the Boise City–Nampa, Idaho Metropolitan Statistical Area. Murphy is also located within the census-designated place bearing its name. The short version is that Murphy carries an earlier story into the places people know and use now. That is the local read on Murphy: its past remains attached to the places people use now. Murphy is home to the Owyhee County Historical Museum and Library. Murphy developed around a railhead of the Boise, Nampa and Owyhee Railroad, built in 1899 by Colonel William H. Dewey had planned to extend the railroad to Silver City, but when mining operations in the Owyhee Mountains became unproductive, the line was not continued past Murphy.