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Interesting
Data About Idaho
- American Falls is unique from most
communities because the entire town was moved in the
mid-1920s when the original American Falls Dam was
constructed.
- Rexburg is home to Ricks College, the
largest private two-year college in the nation.
- Elk River is the home of the Idaho
Champion Western Red Cedar Tree, the largest tree in the
state. Estimated to be over 3000 years old this giant is
more than 18 feet in diameter and stands 177 feet tall.
- Albertson College of Idaho in Caldwell was
founded as the College of Idaho in 1891 and is the state's
oldest four-year institution of higher learning.
- Perched at 9,500 feet on Trinity Mountain
is the highest fire lookout in the Boise National Forest.
- In Idaho law forbids a citizen to give
another citizen a box of candy that weighs more than 50
pounds.
- The city of Grace in the Gem Valley is
most famous for their certified seed potatoes.
- Blackfoot is home of the Eastern Idaho
State Fair.
- The Dworshak Reservoir is over 50 miles
long. The Dworshak Dam is in Orofino.
- Grangeville is located in north central
Idaho. The community is considered the getaway to five
wilderness areas and four national forests totaling 5 1/2
million acres. The total is second only to Alaska in
designated wilderness area.
- In 1896 Council Valley shortened its name
to Council.
- The Lewis & Clark Highway (United State
Highway 12) is the shortest route from the midwest to the
Pacific Coast and the longest highway within a national
forest in the nation.
- The elevation of Cambridge is 2,650 feet
above sea level with the surrounding mountains reaching
elevations around 8000 feet and plummeting to around 1500
feet in Hells Canyon.
- The economy of Idaho City originally
developed around gold mining in the 1860s.
- Heyburn, originally named Riverton, is the
fourth oldest community in the Mini-Cassia area and the
second frontier town to be settled in what is now the
county of Minidoka.
- Bruneau Dunes State Park contains North
America's tallest single structured sand dune. It stands
470 feet high.
- Bruneau Canyon Overlook offers a view into
a 1,200 foot-deep, 800-foot-wide river canyon.
- Downey's first mercantile store, the W. A.
Hyde Co., was built in 1894.
- The Kamiah Valley is rich in the heritage
and legends of the Nez Perce. It was here, among the
ancestors of the present day Nez Perce, the Appaloosa
horse was first bred, primarily for use as a war animal.
- In 1973, the Sawtooth Recreation Area
opened its doors north of Ketchum, making the community
the gateway to the Sawtooths.
- On August 8, 1905, Kimberly auctioned city
lots for prices ranging from $100 to $750.
- Idaho's world famous hot springs are
located in Lava Hot Springs.
- Hell's Canyon is the deepest gorge in
America.
- Shoshone Falls, The Niagara of the West,
spills over a 212-foot drop near Twin Falls.
- Kuna is known as the Gateway City to the
Birds of Prey Natural Area.
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Idaho State Trivia
Capital City:
Boise
Area: 83574 sq.mi.
Land: 82751 sq.mi.
Water: 823 sq.mi.
Area Code: 208
Bird: Mountain Bluebird
Flower: Syringa
Highest Point: 12,662 feet
Lowest Point: 710 feet
Soil: Idaho - Threebear
Tree: Western White Pine
Largest Cities: Boise, Nampa, Pocatello, Idaho Falls,
Meridian, Coeur d'Alene, Twin Falls, Lewiston, Caldwell, Moscow
Nickname: Gem State
Population: 1,293,953
Economy:
Agriculture: Cattle, potatoes, dairy products, wheat, sugar
beets, barley
Industry: Food processing, lumber and wood products,
machinery, chemical products, paper products, silver and other
mining, tourism
Idaho State Flag
A
silk flag,
blue field, five feet six inches fly, and four feet four
inches on pike, bordered with gilt fringe two and
one-half inches in width, with state seal of Idaho
twenty-one inches in diameter, in colors, in the center
of a blue field. The women represents liberty, justice
and equality. The man is a miner. The pictures on the
shield represent the main industries of forestry,
farming and mining. The cornucopias, or horn of plenty
are symbols of abundance. The elks head represents
wildlife. Esto perpetua (Let it be perpetual). The words
"State of Idaho" are embroidered in with block letters,
two inches in height on a red band three inches in width
by twenty-nine inches in length, the band being in gold
and placed about eight and one-half inches from the
lower border of fringe and parallel with the same. Flag
adopted 1907.
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