48°34′19″N 116°23′41″W / 48.57194°N 116.39472°W
Naples is a small unincorporated community in Boundary County, in the far north of Idaho, United States.[1] It lies 11 miles (18 kilometers) south of the city of Bonners Ferry and 23 mi (37 km) north of Sandpoint, on U.S. Routes 2/95 in the Rocky Mountains. It is very close to the US-Canada border. The ZIP Code for Naples is 83847.[2]
Naples is near the land features of Caribou Ridge and Ruby Creek. The Ruby Ridge standoff of 1992, between federal agencies and the Randy Weaver family, took place about 8 miles (13 km) from the city. It resulted in the deaths of three people, including a deputy US marshal and two of the Weaver family.[3]
It was named after the Italian city, from which many immigrant laborers had come who worked on building the first rail line through the region around 1890.[4]
- ^ "Feature Detail Report for: Naples". USGS. United States Census Bureau. Retrieved April 24, 2019.
- ^ "Naples ZIP Code". zipdatamaps.com. 2022. Retrieved November 11, 2022.
- ^ Wilson, Jason (August 26, 2017). "Ruby Ridge, 1992: the day the American militia movement was born". the Guardian. Retrieved October 25, 2018.
- ^ Boone, Lalia Phipps (1988). Idaho place names : a geographical dictionary. Moscow, Idaho: University of Idaho Press. p. 268. ISBN 0893011193.