CANYON COUNTY -- A dive team has found the body of a three-year-old boy that is believed to have drowned Tuesday afternoon in a canal near the Idaho-Oregon border.

Canyon County Sheriff Chris Smith says the search was focused in a rural area southwest of Parma, not far from the boy's home.

Eagle dive teams members recovered the body around 5:30 p.m.

The child's father reported him missing around 2 p.m.

"He was riding his bike in front of the house and from the way the tread pattern looked he had rode down and had gone across the road and into the canal," said Lt. Daren Ward, Canyon County Sheriff's Office.

Ward says the boy's parents lost sight of him and quickly walked outside to check on him.

They found only his bike in this canal and that's when the search for their little boy began.

It didn't take long before nearly 40 neighbors showed up to help out in this tight knit rural community.

"My wife and I started looking along the canal and the more time we spent the more people were out being involved," said Len Abbott.

Numerous agencies arrived on scene to try and find the young boy, using helicopters, dive teams, and four-wheelers to cover about a four-mile stretch of the canal.

But hours after the boy went missing, everyone's worst fear was discovered.

The boy's body was found in the canal about 300 yards from his home.

"It's rough and over the last hours you thought you would possibly come up with that but still a number of us were up in the ridges seeing if maybe the child thought he was in trouble and went up and his somewhere," said Abbott.

"I can only imagine what the family is going through at this time and the members of the whole community," said Ward.

Ward says when the boy fell in the canal the current was moving at about two feet per second.

The local irrigation district slowed down the flow during the search.