Emergency Crime Scene and Biohazard Cleanup in Malad City, ID

Malad City, commonly known as Malad, is the only city in and the county seat of Oneida County, Idaho, with a population of 2,299 at the 2020 census and 864 households.

The city is named after the nearby Malad River, the name being French for sickly, after Scottish-Canadian trapper Donald Mackenzie's men fell ill while camped in the valley between 1818 and 1821, likely from eating beaver meat tainted with cicutoxin from water hemlock rather than from the water itself.

Established in 1864, Malad is one of the oldest communities in Idaho, and its motto is Where Idaho Begins.

Malad began largely as a Welsh Latter-day Saint settlement and lays claim to having more people of Welsh descent per capita than anywhere outside Wales, a heritage celebrated by the annual Malad Valley Welsh Festival established in 2004 to revive the town's eisteddfod tradition, which had continued until 1916.

In 1856, at Brigham Young's request, 15 Utah families led by Ezra Barnard established Fort Stuart in the Malad Valley, renamed Malad City in 1857, with a U.S. post office established in 1865.

By 1886 Malad City was the fastest growing village in eastern Idaho, and when the railroad reached the city in 1906, travel to Salt Lake City took only four hours by rail, doubling the population over the next 15 years.

On June 19, 1910, Malad experienced a flood when the earthen Deep Creek Dam northeast of the city broke.

On March 27, 1975, a magnitude 6.1 earthquake centered only 15 miles southwest of Malad City damaged nearly two-thirds of its homes and businesses.

Evans Co-op, opened in 1865 as part of a Latter-day Saint cooperative movement, was once the oldest department store in Idaho, and its historic building remains in the city.

Malad City has the longest running weekly newspaper in Idaho, The Idaho Enterprise, which published its first issue on June 6, 1879.