Jerome County is a
county in the
U.S. state of
Idaho. As of the
2010 Census the county had a population of 22,374. The
county seat and largest city is
Jerome. The county was created by the Idaho Legislature on February 8, 1919, by a partition of
Lincoln County. It was named after either Jerome Hill, a developer of the North Side
Irrigation Project, his son-in-law Jerome Kuhn, or his grandson Jerome Kuhn, Jr.