Bonners Ferry
Idaho
Bonners Ferry, city, seat (1915) of Boundary county, northern Idaho, U.S. Located 27 miles (43 km) south of the Canadian border on the Kootenai River, the city developed around a trading post and ferry established in the early 1870s by pioneer Edwin Bonner. A Great Northern Railway line connected the city to eastern Washington in 1892. The following year a fire destroyed much of the city, but it was promptly rebuilt. Bonners Ferry became an important timber-shipping centre in the 1920s and remains so. Kootenai National Wildlife Refuge lies 5 miles (8 km) west of downtown. Inc. 1899. Pop. (2000) 2,515; (2010) 2,543.
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