Malad City (also commonly known as Malad) is the solitary city in Oneida County, Idaho, United States. Its population was 2,095 at the 2010 census, down from 2,158 in 2000.

The city is named after the within reach Malad River, the name inborn French for “sickly”. Malad City is located along Interstate 15 upon the east side of the Malad Valley 13 miles (21 km) from the Utah/Idaho border.

Established in 1864, Malad is one of the oldest communities in the give access of Idaho. The community established its broadcast from Donald Mackenzie, a Scottish-Canadian trapper, who passed through the valley amongst 1818 and 1821 later than a party of trappers. Some of his men became sick while camped here and, believing that the illness was caused by drinking water from the valley’s principal stream, he named it “Malade” meaning sick or bad in the French language. Actually, the water had nothing to accomplish with the men’s illness, as it was later scholarly by the second party led by Jim Bridger together with 1832 and 1835. The men had most likely eaten some beaver that fed on the poisonous roots of water hemlock trees that put a naturally up cicutoxin into the animals’ flesh. The beaver would have likely been immune to the poison because of long-term adaptation, but the trappers suffered from their feast. Native tribes avoided this result by altering food preparation methods to include boiling, which apparently deactivated the poison.

Malad began largely as a Welsh LDS settlement, whose settlers brought their Welsh traditions like them. In complement to the LDS majority, some of the leading families in the community belonged to the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. These two denominations each built a place of veneration in the town. Some of the minutes from yet to be town meetings were taken alongside in both English and Welsh. The city is agreed proud of its Welsh heritage. Malad lays affirmation to having more people of Welsh parentage per capita than anywhere uncovered Wales. Malad much-admired its Welsh parentage by holding an annual “eisteddfod”, patterned after the music and poetry contests held in Wales for more than 900 years. The eisteddfod was an all-day concern with people coming from all over southeastern Idaho. The event featured music, songs and storytelling of Wales. The custom continued until 1916 and the American entrance into World War I. With the mean of renewing the antiquated eisteddfod tradition in Malad, in 2004, the annual Malad Valley Welsh Festival was established.