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History · Crouch

Crouch’s post office opened in 1936

Most of Crouch was built recently: 0.0% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1993. Below: maps from 1959 on and the census since 1960.

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How Crouch began

When was Crouch founded?

1936

The Crouch post office opened in 1936, the earliest record of the town by name.

First census: 89 in 19602020 census: 15490 years
Founding year: the first Crouch post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about Crouch’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

A history waiting to be writtenNo old photos of Crouch are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Crouch’s history is told.

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The story so far

Crouch, in brief

Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Crouch yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.

Crouch is a city in Boise County, Idaho, United States. The population was 154 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Boise City–Nampa, Idaho Metropolitan Statistical Area. In 2018, it had multiple commercial businesses for tourists and residents: a small grocery mart, a hardware store, three restaurants, a bar, an outdoor theater, and a community thrift store. At that time, the construction of the Banks/Lowman road 2512A, the "Wildlife Canyon Scenic Byway", transformed a small unpaved road into a paved modern road between Crouch and Lowman. Now it is a fully modern paved roadway with informational and white water rafting pull-outs, which serves to transport tourists, rafters, commuters, and…

Its first post office opened in 1936. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 162 to 154 (-5%).

Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.

Timeline

Crouch, 1936 to 1966

Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.

  1. 20th century
  2. 1936Post officeThe Crouch post office opens
  3. 1959On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
  4. 1966Post officeThe Crouch post office closes
By decade

Crouch, decade by decade

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On the map

Crouch on the map, 1959 to 1988

Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Crouch. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.

Crouch on the 1959 USGS mapCrouch on the 1988 USGS map1959Garden Valley sheet · 1:62,500

U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Crouch.

People over time

Crouch, census by census

01001960198020002020Peak: 162

Between 69 and 162 people in every census since 1960.

7 censuses, 1960–2020.

U.S. Census Bureau decennial counts, from the census table on Crouch’s Wikipedia page.

Famous people

Famous people close to Crouch

Nobody well known was born in Crouch itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.

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Aaron PaulAmerican actor · b. 1979
Brad LittleGovernor of Idaho since 2019 · b. 1954
Clarence D. Van DuzerAmerican politician · b. 1864
James Charles CastleAmerican artist · b. 1899
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Paul PophamAmerican gay rights activist · b. 1941
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Carlos BilbaoAmerican congressman in Idaho · b. 1936
Places that used to be

Lost post offices

Crouch had its own post office from 1936 to 1966.

Crouch
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US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

Stories next door

History across the town line

Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.

Garden ValleyIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

Questions about Crouch’s history

What year was Crouch founded?

The Crouch post office opened in 1936, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

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What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.

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Where this page comes from

Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →

From Wikimedia Commons (1), U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, U.S. Census counts (via Wikipedia), the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock) and the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.