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Bovill is a city in Latah County, Idaho, on the east bank of the Potlatch River, with a population of 191 at the 2020 census, and the 2010 census counted 105 households in the city.

The city was named for Hugh Bovill, an Englishman who bought the Warren Meadows homestead in 1901 to ranch.

Bovill and his wife Charlotte opened a hotel in 1903, which included a store and post office in 1907, the same year the railroad arrived.

As logging activity increased nearby, the town became too wild for the couple and their two daughters, and they left for Coeur d'Alene in 1911.

On April 15, 1912, workers at the Potlatch Lumber Company's camps near Bovill went on strike for better rations and a 25-cent-per-day pay raise.

The Bovill Opera House, at 2nd and Pine, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.

Bovill's population peaked at 589 in 1920 and has declined in nearly every census since, reaching 191 in 2020.

Bovill is the setting for a retreat near the town in the 2009 novel Patriots: A Novel of Survival in the Coming Collapse.

The city sits at an elevation of 2,868 feet, and its ZIP code is 83806.

Bovill is in the Pacific time zone.