Avery is a small unincorporated community in the northwest United States, located in the St. Joe River Valley in Shoshone County, Idaho.

It was also once the western terminus for the easternmost of two electrified mountain sections on the route; the other ran in Washington from Othello, through the Cascade Range to the Puget Sound.

Trains stopped at the Avery Depot, now listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

[citation needed] During the Great Fire of 1910, a 28-man firefighting team died near Setzer Creek outside of Avery.

[6] The U.S. Army's 25th Infantry Regiment (known as the Buffalo Soldiers) helped build a back fire that saved Avery.