Official Name: | Dixie, Idaho |
Pushpin Map: | Idaho#USA |
Pushpin Label: | Dixie |
Pushpin Label Position: | bottom |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | United States |
Subdivision Type1: | State |
Subdivision Name1: | Idaho |
Subdivision Type2: | County |
Subdivision Name2: | Idaho |
Timezone: | Pacific (PST) |
Utc Offset: | -8 |
Timezone Dst: | PDT |
Utc Offset Dst: | -7 |
Elevation Ft: | 5620 |
Coordinates: | 45.5542°N -115.4611°W |
Area Code: | 208, 986 |
Blank Name: | GNIS feature ID |
Blank Info: | 1802953[1] |
Dixie is an unincorporated community in Idaho County, Idaho, United States, located 43miles east-northeast of Riggins. Dixie was an important gateway to the Thunder Mountain Mines of Idaho during the early 1900s when Dixie was on the northern terminus of the Three Blaze Trail, a shortcut route to the mines via Campbell's Ferry, and what is now the Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness, Chamberlain Basin, and southward to the mining community of Roosevelt, located on Monumental Creek.
Dixie's population was 292 in 1909,[2] and was 25 in 1960.[3]
Dixie has a dry summer continental subarctic climate (Dsc) according to the Köppen climate classification system.
The following public-use airports are located near Dixie