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Pinehurst is a city in Shoshone County, Idaho, located at the west end of the Silver Valley mining region.

The city's population was 1,679 at the 2020 census, up from 1,619 in 2010, and it counted 741 households and 801 housing units in 2020.

The median age in Pinehurst was 49.6 years in 2020, and about 21.1 percent of households had children under the age of 18 living in them.

Pinehurst grew up with the mines of the Pine Creek area of the Coeur d'Alene mining district, and the Independence Mine, a producer of lead, silver, and copper that was a major producer during both world wars, had a large hand in the development of Pinehurst.

The Silver Valley around Pinehurst was for a century a center of extensive silver and other metal mining and processing, and the Bunker Hill smelter in nearby Kellogg was the largest smelting facility in the world when it was built.

Between 1885 and 1979, the mines of the Silver Valley produced 907 million ounces of silver, almost five times the output of Nevada's legendary Comstock Lode.

Mining's environmental legacy in the Silver Valley led the federal government to designate the Coeur d'Alene Basin as a Superfund cleanup area, with settlements funding habitat restoration.

Pinehurst's ZIP code is 83850.