Meadowhurst, Idaho — Airport-Side St. Maries Without the City Limit

Meadowhurst occupies the edge of St. Maries where the county seat's institutions begin spilling into unincorporated land.

The airport and high school are useful landmarks because they make the relationship unusually visible. This is not an isolated rural settlement several miles away; it is residential ground woven into the same daily orbit as St. Maries.

The distinction shows up less in scenery than in administration. A household can use the same roads, schools, stores and community institutions as city residents while its address sits outside municipal government.

Even the name survives at neighborhood scale, including Meadowhurst Drive.

Meadowhurst's story is therefore not simply that St. Maries grew outward. It is about the seam where a county seat's civic landscape continues after its legal boundary has stopped.