By Kjel Jones, Licensed Real Estate Agent (Idaho) · LPT Realty

Published 2026-08-18

Hidden Valley subdivision in Rexburg, Idaho

What got platted

The recorded facts first. Hidden Valley recorded eight phases with Madison County between November 1998 and May 2005: Phases 1 and 2 together on November 9, 1998 (instruments 275068 and 286283), then Phase 3 (2000), Phase 4 (2001), Phase 5 (2002), Phase 6 (2003), Phase 7 (2003), and Phase 8 (2005) — all inside Rexburg city limits. The Phase 1 plat puts the subdivision along Hidden Valley Road off North Hill Road, starting at the Woodmansee canal, and its dedication commits the lots to municipal water and sewer maintained by the City of Rexburg — that detail is on the recorded plat itself.

The build-out tracked the plats: county assessor records show homes going up from 1999 through 2018, with 2002–2006 as the peak — 94 of the 120 homes. This is a finished neighborhood, not an active development: no declarant, no phasing decisions pending, no construction traffic baked into daily life.

Homes, lots, and what the county records show

• 126 parcels: about 120 improved homes, two tiny unbuilt residential slivers, and several tax-exempt common parcels — including a 2.87-acre parcel in Phase 6 carrying the city's public-facilities zoning code and a ~0.8-acre strip in Phase 3 identified as greenbelt in county parcel records (August 2026).
• Above-grade living space runs ~960–3,787 sq ft with 1–7 bedrooms (assessor detail records, August 2026).
• Basements are the norm: 116 of 120 homes show basement square footage — the classic Rexburg pattern, and the mirror image of new subdivisions like Summerfield, where almost nothing has one. Total finished space usually runs well past the above-grade number.
• Assessed values on improved homes ran about $372,000–$708,000 in the August 2026 county pull (n=119). Assessed value is a taxation number, not a market price — context, never a comp.
• Zoning is LDR2 across most of the subdivision (LDR1 in the Phase 1 area, per the recorded plat); improved lots run 0.21–0.71 acres — noticeably roomier than new-construction PUD lots.

Covenants read in full — and the HOA question nobody else answers

Hidden Valley's covenants are short enough to actually read, so this guide did: the Declaration of Covenants of Hidden Valley Subdivision, LLC, executed August 1, 2002 and recorded October 3, 2002 — instrument 298601, seven pages, free at the Madison County Recorder. No later amendment appears in the county index under the subdivision's name as of August 2026. From the recorded text:

• Single-family residences only; outbuildings on concrete with siding matching the home.
• Stick-built only — no mobile, manufactured, or modular homes, and no carports. Homes need a front porch of at least 6 × 20 feet with shuttered front windows, or at least 25% stone, brick, or stucco on the front.
• Minimum sizes: 1,300 sq ft ground floor for a single-story; two-story, bi-level, and split-level homes need 1,600 sq ft total, excluding basement, garage, and porches.
• Architectural Control Committee approval before construction — and if the committee ever ceases to function, the declaration routes plan approval to the City of Rexburg's building inspector.
• Setbacks: front 32 feet from the curb, back 20 feet, sides at least 5 feet plus 6 inches per foot of building height; 7-foot landscape strip and sidewalk maintained by the owner.
• Practical rules: vehicles parked in driveways only (no front or side yard parking); back fences 6 feet on the property line with committee approval; household pets only, no commercial breeding; signs limited to one for-sale/for-rent sign of five square feet; home businesses register with the committee before city permits.
• Build-or-sell-back: a lot had to be built on within four years of purchase, or the declarant could buy it back at the original price — a build-out-era rule that explains why the neighborhood filled in as fast as it did.
• Term: 25 years from recording, then automatic ten-year extensions unless a majority of lot owners records a change. The first 25-year term runs through October 2027 — after that, amendment takes a recorded majority vote, same as today.

Now the part that takes actual digging. The declaration's final section says every owner "agrees to become a member of the Homeowner Association," which is to administer the covenants and maintain the common areas. An association entity was in fact registered with the Idaho Secretary of State in 2008 — with a mailing address on Dell Drive, inside the subdivision — and was administratively dissolved in December 2009. No active registered entity for this subdivision's association was found as of August 2026. That does not mean the covenants are void — recorded covenants run with the land regardless of what happened to a nonprofit filing — but it does mean the practical questions (does anyone collect dues? who maintains the common parcels? is the architectural committee functioning?) deserve real answers from the title company's documents and the neighbors before an offer, not assumptions. This page will not guess.

One more honesty note from reading the actual instrument: the recorded document bundles an earlier signature page dated March 1999 (signed "Hidden Valley Estates," without the association section) alongside the operative August 2002 execution. A summary would never show you that — the recorded document does, which is why this guide links it instead of paraphrasing beyond what it read.

Flood, utilities, and services

• Flood: no FEMA flood feature intersects the recorded plat footprint in the county GIS flood layer (queried August 2026) — worth stating plainly, since the Woodmansee canal runs along the subdivision boundary. A per-property determination at purchase remains standard.
• City services: the recorded Phase 1 plat dedicates the lots to municipal water and sewer maintained by the City of Rexburg; garbage and plowing specifics are being confirmed with the city and will be stated here precisely rather than assumed now.
• Broadband: per provider-filed FCC National Broadband Map data (December 2025 filings, pulled August 2026), every sampled Hidden Valley address shows Silver Star fiber-to-the-premises up to 1,000/200 Mbps and Sparklight cable up to 1,000/50 Mbps, plus licensed fixed wireless (Fybercom at 300/300 Mbps, Verizon, T-Mobile) and satellite. These are the speeds providers filed with the FCC, not measurements — fiber providers often sell faster tiers than they file, so confirm current plans at the address.

What Hidden Valley costs: the honest version

Idaho is a non-disclosure state — sale prices are not public record. Anyone quoting a precise "Hidden Valley median sold price" is estimating without saying so. What can be said honestly: the assessed range above, plus sourced context for the market it trades in:

• $432,774 — Zillow's modeled typical home value for the city of Rexburg (ZHVI — an estimate, not a sale record; up 5.0% from a year earlier) (Zillow Research ZHVI, June 2026)
• $649,766 — median listing price, Rexburg metro area (Madison + Fremont counties) (Realtor.com via FRED, June 2026)
• 61 days — median days on market, Rexburg metro area (44 days in April 2026) (Realtor.com via FRED, June 2026)

Geography caveat, stated plainly: the ZHVI figure models the whole city of Rexburg and the metro series blends Madison and Fremont counties — neither isolates Hidden Valley. Subdivision-level sale data will be added from MLS records once access and publication permissions are in place.

Buyers are absolutely out there right now — but at these rates they are hunting for a good deal, and so are most sellers.

— Kjel Jones, Licensed Real Estate Agent (Idaho), LPT Realty, 2026

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