Conda, ID

Conda, ID

  • Settled:  Built in 1920 as a model industrial town by the Anaconda Mining Company to serve employees of their phosphate mines
  • Origin of Name: Named after the Anaconda Mining Company, who built the town
  • History: Mines were owned and operated by J. R. Simplot Company for many years, then later Monsanto, and is currently owned by Bayer Company; phosphate outcrop is 13 miles long with open-pit mining 
  • Location: Located 8.5 miles (14 minutes) northeast of Soda Springs on Hwy 34 E
  • No population figures on this unincorporated rural Idaho community   

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