Gooding

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Gooding County Courthouse

Gooding County Idaho Courthouse

I have been taking pictures of various Idaho County Courthouses as I get around. Here is another in that series.

I don’t get to Gooding County very often. It is still in the 5th Judicial District, so I get there once and a while. Normally something doing a title search in the land records or rarely for a court appearance.

The last time I was at the Gooding County Courthouse in mid 2025, I found a 1942 French two francs coin in the parking lot. It was my lucky day. I told the bailiff and employee in the recorders office in case anyone showed up asking about it. I still have it, so its owner doesn’t know where they lost it, or didn’t know they had a two francs coin. It is worth between $10 to $30 as of when I found it. France is on the Euro now.

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Owyhee County Courthouse

Owyhee County Courthouse

Earlier this year I was in Boise for the Inauguration. I attended the Inauguration and Amanda and I both attended the Inaugural Dinner and Ball. It was fun. However, I intentionally took the long way home the next day down through Kuna, Murphy, Oreana, Grand View, Bruneau, Hammett, Glenns Ferry, King Hill, Bliss, Gooding, Shoshone, Dietrich, and Paul. It was a beautiful drive and I took 8 hours to make it!

As you can see above, I stopped at the Owyhee County Courthouse in Murphy. I got a kick out of the parking meter sign. It was a rather blustery day so I took the picture from my truck.

I drove past this sign and thought it was hilarious!

South Joe King Road in Hammett, Idaho

I found it so hilarious I turned around to go back and get a picture! I chortled just now uploading it for you.

Once I rolled into Hammett, I took this photo.

Hammett, Idaho, looking west

I will have to upload some of the other photos I took at the Lincoln and Gooding County Courthouses another time. I hit three courthouses in the same day, just for photos, not for work.