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How to Find Old Telephone Directories

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  • If you can’t find a directory for a small town try searching for larger towns in the area.
    • Rand McNally Black and White Mileage Map: Idaho. Commercial Atlas of America page 360 [Idaho]. Rand McNally & Company, 1920.
  • Search for phone books in libraries using WorldCat.

Online Information

  • Telecommunications Relay Services Directory (FCC)
  • Idaho Telephone Exchanges and Company Areas: Co-ops and Regulated Companies. Map. Idaho Public Utilities Commission. 2/4/16 (PDF) https://puc.idaho.gov/FileRoom/PublicFiles/maps/CITIES.pdf. Accessed December 23, 2020.
  • Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Maps

Telephone and Telegraph Companies and Directory Publishers

The names below were collected from phone books, library catalog records, and R.L. Polk & Company’s 1906, 1910-1911, and 1916 Idaho State Gazetteer and Business Directories.

  • Albion Telephone Co.
  • American Business Directories, Inc.
  • American Development
  • American Directory Publishing Co.
  • Asotin Telephone Co.
  • AT&T
  • Bear River Valley Telephone Co.
  • Buena Vista
  • BYU-Idaho Press
  • Camas Prairie Mutual Telephone Co.
  • Cambridge Telephone Company
  • Carey Telephone Company
  • Cascade Telephone Co.
  • Cassia County Telephone Co.
  • Cassia Independent Telephone Co.
  • Catalist (US West Marketing Resources)
  • Central Idaho Telegraph & Telephone Co.
  • Century Telephone of Idaho, Inc.
  • CenturyLink
  • CenturyTel
  • CenturyTel of Washington, Inc.
  • Challis & Pahsimeroi Telephone Association
  • Citizens Communications
  • Citizens Telecom
    Clearwater Telephone & Telegraph Co.
  • Clearwater Telephone Co.
  • Continental System
  • Continental Telephone Co. of the West
  • Cox Communications
  • Crocker Co.
  • CTC Telecom
  • Custer Telephone Cooperative
  • Dex
  • Dex Media, Inc.
  • Dex One Corporation
  • Dex Plus
  • Downey Independent Telephone Co.
  • Dvorak Telephone Co.
  • Emmett Messenger-Index
  • Empire Publishing Co.
  • Farmers Mutual Telephone Co.
  • Filer Mutual Telephone Co.
  • Fremont Independent Telephone Co.
  • Fronteer Directory Co.
  • Frontier Communications
  • Frontier Pages
  • Gem State Rural Publishing Co.
  • Gem State Utilities Corp.
  • General Telephone & Electronics Co. (GTE Corporation)
  • General Telephone Co. of the Northwest
  • Gifford Farmers Mutual Telephone Co. Limited
  • Gobble Agency
  • GTE North
  • GTE Northwest
  • H.H. Bancroft and Co.
  • Hagadone Directories, Inc.
  • Harris InfoSource
  • Herald Journal
  • Hill-Donnelly
  • Home Telephone Co.
  • Idaho Business Directory
  • Idaho Independent Telephone Co.
  • Idaho Telephone Co. (Continental System)
  • Impact
  • Impact Directories
  • Independent Long Distance Telephone Co.
  • Independent Telephone Co.
  • Indian Valley Telephone Co.
  • InfoUSA Inc.
  • Inland Telephone & Telegraph Co.
  • Inland Telephone Co.
  • Inter-Mountain Mutual Telephone Co.
  • Intermountain Phone Books
  • Interstate Consolidated Telephone Co.
  • Interstate Telephone Co.
  • Interstate Utilities Co.
  • Johnson Publishing Co.
  • Keithley & De Lashmutt Telephone Co.
  • L.S. Knox
  • Lemhi Telephone Co.
  • Local Publications, Inc.
  • Long Valley Mutual Telephone Co.
  • Mackay Telephone Co.
  • Malheur Bell
  • Malheur Home Telephone Co.
  • McCammon Telephone Co.
  • MCI
  • McLeodUSA Publishing Co.
  • Meadows-Warren-Roosevelt Telephone Co.
  • Medicine Lodge Telephone Co.
  • Meridian Independent Telephone Co.
  • Midland Telephone Co.
  • Midvale Rural Telephone Co.
  • Midvale Telephone Exchange, Inc.
  • Moscow Rural Telephone Co.
  • Moscow Telephone & Telegraph Co.
  • Mountain Bell
  • Mountain States Telephone & Telegraph Co.
  • Mud Lake Telephone Cooperative
  • Mutual Telephone Co.
  • Names & Numbers
  • Nez Perce Co-Operative Telephone Co.
  • North Idaho Telephone Co.
  • Oregon Telephone & Telegraph Co.
  • Oregon Weekly (Oregon Japanese telephone directory)
  • Oxford Rural Telephone Co.
  • Pacific Coast
  • Pacific Coast Publishing
  • Pacific Northwest Bell Telephone Co.
  • Pacific States Telephone & Telegraph Co.
  • Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Co.
  • Parma Telephone Co.
  • PDC Pages (Phone Directories Co.)
  • Phone Book Publishers
  • Phone Directories
  • Phone Directories Co., Inc. (PDC)
  • Pocatello Tribune
  • Polk (R.L. Polk)
  • Postal Telegraph Cable Co.
  • Potlatch Telephone Co.
  • Project Mutual Telephone Cooperative Association
  • PTI Communications
  • Qwest Communications
  • Qwest Dex
  • Rand McNally & Company
  • R.G. Bailey Printing Co.
  • R.L. Polk
  • R.M. Bell Telephone Co.
  • R.M.B. Telephone Co.
  • Red Rock & Salmon River Telephone Co.
  • ReferenceUSA (infoUSA Inc.)
  • Regional Telephone Directory
  • Roberts Telephone Co.
  • Rockland Telephone Co.
  • Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone Co.
  • Rocky Mountain Directory Co.
  • Rogerson Telephone Co.
  • Rural Telephone Co.
  • Settlers Mutual Telephone Co.
  • Silver Star Telephone Co., Inc.
  • Smith Telephone Co.
  • Southern Idaho Telephone Co. Ltd.
  • Stites-Elk City Electric Light & Telephone Co.
  • Sunset Telephone & Telegraph Co.
  • TDS Telecom (Telephone and Data Systems)
  • Telephone and Data Systems, Inc. (TDS)
  • Telephone Utilities of Washington, Inc.
  • The White & Yellow Pages
  • Time Warner Communications
  • Towne and Bacon
  • Troy Telephone & Electric Co.
  • Troy Telephone Co.
  • TW Telecom
  • Upper Valley Phone Books
  • US West Communications
  • US West Dex, Inc.
  • US West Direct
  • US West Marketing Resources
  • Valley Telephone Co.
  • Verizon
  • West Dex
  • Western Union Telegraph Co.
  • White & Yellow Pages
  • Yellow Book USA, Inc.
  • Yellow Pages, Inc.
  • Yellowbook
  • Yellowbook, Inc.
  • Yellowstone Power & Telephone
  • Ziplocal

This page updated by rjoiner on January 7, 2021.

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