Unattended Death and Biohazard Cleanup in Genesee, ID

Genesee is a city in Latah County, Idaho, about 15 miles south of Moscow in the Palouse region of rolling wheat country.

The city's population was 1,030 at the 2020 census, up from 955 in 2010, and it counted 374 households and 399 housing units in 2020.

The median age in Genesee was 34.9 years in 2020, and about 42.2 percent of households had children under the age of 18 living in them.

The site of present-day Genesee lay within the Nez Perce Reservation under the Treaty of 1855 and fell outside the reservation under the new treaty of 1863, and major settlement waited for the first land surveys of 1870 and 1871.

In 1870, John P. Vollmer, Alonzo LeLand, and Stone, an agent for the Oregon Railroad and Navigation Company, traveled up Cow Creek from Lewiston, and Stone remarked that the area reminded him of his home in the Genesee Valley of New York, giving the town and valley their name.

Old Town Genesee was established in 1879 on the main Nez Perce trail that became the first stagecoach road from Lewiston, and in 1888 Vollmer brought the Spokane and Palouse Railroad to the area and platted a new town site one mile west of Old Town.

New Town Genesee grew very rapidly, passing 1,000 people by 1890, and became the major shipping center for agricultural products from as far south as Grangeville.

Genesee's landmarks include the historic Genesee Creamery, once a major dairy processing facility, and St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church, founded in 1889, whose present edifice was built and dedicated in 1919.

Genesee is well known for its school and its productive farmland, and it is home to the Pacific Northwest Cooperative, the largest farmer's cooperative in the Pacific Northwest.

Genesee's ZIP code is 83832.