Bovill is a city in Latah County, Idaho, United States.

[5] Hugh Bovill was an Englishman who bought the Warren Meadows homestead in 1901 to ranch.

[6] With the rapid infusion of loggers, homesteaders, and sportsmen, Bovill and his wife Charlotte opened a hotel in 1903, which included a store and post office in 1907.

[7] The railroad arrived that same year and as logging activity increased nearby, the town became too wild for the couple and their two daughters, and they left for Coeur d'Alene in 1911;[6][7] (Hugh died in 1935 in Oregon, Charlotte in 1947 in California).

[10] The Bovill Opera House, at 2nd and Pine, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 0.19 square miles (0.49 km2), all of it land.

About 14.1% of families and 18.1% of the population were below the poverty line, including 24.0% of those under the age of eighteen and none of those 65 or over.

In the 2009 novel Patriots: A Novel of Survival in the Coming Collapse,[16] a handful of Midwestern people relocate from Chicago to a retreat near Bovill due to hyperinflation and subsequent economic collapse of the United States.