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Loans - Carrying Amount of Purchased Credit Impaired Loans (Details) - USD ($) $ in Thousands	Dec. 31, 2017	Dec. 31, 2016
Accounts Notes And Loans Receivable [Line Items]
Total impaired loans	$ 5,395	$ 4,570
Unaccreted discount on purchased credit impaired loans	(1,638)	(1,197)
Receivables Acquired with Deteriorated Credit Quality
Accounts Notes And Loans Receivable [Line Items]
Total	3,757	3,373
Commercial Real Estate | Receivables Acquired with Deteriorated Credit Quality
Accounts Notes And Loans Receivable [Line Items]
Total	1,079	177
Commercial and Industrial Loans
Accounts Notes And Loans Receivable [Line Items]
Total impaired loans	2,774	4,258
Commercial and Industrial Loans | Receivables Acquired with Deteriorated Credit Quality
Accounts Notes And Loans Receivable [Line Items]
Total	1,841	3,196
Consumer Loans
Accounts Notes And Loans Receivable [Line Items]
Total impaired loans		17
Land | Receivables Acquired with Deteriorated Credit Quality
Accounts Notes And Loans Receivable [Line Items]
Total	837
Real Estate Loans
Accounts Notes And Loans Receivable [Line Items]
Total impaired loans	2,621	295
Real Estate Loans | Commercial Real Estate
Accounts Notes And Loans Receivable [Line Items]
Total impaired loans	1,525	$ 295
Real Estate Loans | Land
Accounts Notes And Loans Receivable [Line Items]
Total impaired loans	$ 1,096

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Amount of investment of impaired financing receivables with related allowance for credit losses and without a related allowance for credit losses.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 310
-SubTopic 10
-Section 50
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-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 210
-SubTopic 10
-Section S99
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