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Some of the cities, towns, and places in Owyhee County are Bruneau, Claytonia, De Lamar, Dewey, Dickshooter, Grand View, Grasmere, Homedale, Marsing, Murphy, Murphy Hot Springs, Oreana, Reynolds, Riddle, Ruby City, Silver City, Wickahoney

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Owyhee County ( oh-WYE-hee) is a county in the southwestern corner of the U.S. state of Idaho. As of the 2010 census, the population was 11,526. The county seat is Murphy, and its largest city is Homedale. In area it is the second-largest county in Idaho, behind Idaho County. Owyhee County is part of the Boise metropolitan area and contains slightly more than half of the Duck Valley Indian Reservation, which extends over the Nevada border, into Elko County. The majority of the federally recognized Shoshone-Paiute Tribe that is associated with this reservation lives on the Nevada side; its tribal center is in Owyhee, Nevada.