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Read the county’s story

HistoryHow this place came to be: the Nez Perce homeland, the towns, the mills and what people tried.
TodayWho lives here now, in three short true stories and in people’s own words.
What people saidThe price of staying: what more than fifty people told the Record in October 2026, counted without names.
ProblemsWhat is hard about staying: housing, wages, money to start something and help when it matters.
SolutionsWhat people are trying: the dam, the ridge, the loan funds and the dinners.
Home in 2046What the county has said and measured about its next twenty years, and nine questions you can answer.
Stories & chaptersLand and water, homelands, main streets, work and everyday life, each story with its sources.
The guidesA home, a hailstorm’s recovery, a steer’s price and a loan, each explained from the county’s own records.
In their wordsPublished accounts, recordings and statements, kept in their authors’ own wording.

Look something up

Places & mapFind a town, a building, a business or an organization, on the map or by name.
Land & parcelsParcel outlines, building footprints, water and public land, with their dates and limits.
Industries & economyBronze, timber, cattle, tourism and the trades, in numbers and in the words of the people who do the work.
Ownership & rightsWhy a taxlot outline is only a beginning: the surface, the buildings, the minerals and the right to use them.
Films & conversationsRecordings from the county’s own organizations, with the context to watch them by.
PhotographsDocumentary photographs of the county, each with its photographer, date, licence and source.
Research collectionOld newspapers, family histories and public decisions, indexed so you can keep looking.
NewspapersHistoric county newspapers, issue by issue, from the Oregon digital newspaper archive.

The record behind it

Open dataEvery map layer’s source, date and limits, and survey data as files you can download.
- Joseph’s housing surveyEvery question the 2024 Joseph housing survey asked and what 106 people answered, with the data file.
Source register & image creditsEvery source behind the stories and every photograph’s credit, with the date it was checked.
Sources & coverageWhat the collection documents so far, what it is still missing, and how its records are counted.
About the RecordWho this is for, how it is made, and the rules that keep the records and the voices honest.
Who makes thisThe publisher, the editor once one is named, and how to reach them.

Take part

Add your storyA memory, a name, a photograph or a correction. A sentence is enough, and nothing is published without your permission.
Ask for a conversationSay how to reach you and when suits; the editor arranges a time to talk. Nothing is published.
CorrectionsSomething wrong on a page? Email the editor and say which page.

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