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Caribou County

Caribou County proper noun: one of 44 counties in Idaho, United States. County seat: Soda Springs.

Proper noun

Caribou County

  1. One of 44 counties in Idaho, United States. County seat: Soda Springs.

Origin of Caribou County

Named after the Caribou Mountains, which were named after Cariboo Fairchild, a prospector. His name may derive from the Cariboo Mountains, a separate range well to the north, which in turn derive their name from the animal.

Questions about Caribou County

What does Caribou County mean?
Caribou County means one of 44 counties in Idaho, United States. County seat: Soda Springs.
What part of speech is Caribou County?
Caribou County is a proper noun.

Words near Caribou County in the dictionary

  1. caribflies
  2. caribfly
  3. cariboo
  4. cariboos
  5. caribou
  6. Caribou County
  7. Caribou Eskimo
  8. Caribou Inuit
  9. caribous
  10. caribouskin
  11. caribouskins

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Caribou County (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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