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Idaho (/ˈaɪdəhoʊ/ (
listen) EYE-də-hoh) is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the Western United States. To the north, it shares a small portion of the Canadian border with the province of British Columbia. It borders the state of Montana to the northeast, Wyoming to the east, Nevada and Utah to the south, and Washington and Oregon to the west. The state's capital and largest city is Boise. With an area of 83,570 square miles (216,400 km2), Idaho is the 11th largest state by land area, but with a population of approximately 1.8 million, it ranks as the 13th least populous and the 7th least densely populated of the 50 U.S. states.
For thousands of years, and prior to European colonization, Idaho has been inhabited by native peoples. In the early 19th century, Idaho was considered part of the Oregon Country, an area of dispute between the U.S. and the British Empire. It officially became U.S. territory with the signing of the Oregon Treaty of 1846, but a separate Idaho Territory was not organized until 1863, instead being included for periods in Oregon Territory and Washington Territory. Idaho was eventually admitted to the Union on July 3, 1890, becoming the 43rd state.
Forming part of the Pacific Northwest (and the associated Cascadia bioregion), Idaho is divided into several distinct geographic and climatic regions. The state's north, the relatively isolated Idaho Panhandle, is closely linked with Eastern Washington, with which it shares the Pacific Time Zone—the rest of the state uses the Mountain Time Zone. The state's south includes the Snake River Plain (which has most of the population and agricultural land). The state's southeast incorporates part of the Great Basin. Idaho is quite mountainous, and contains several stretches of the Rocky Mountains. The United States Forest Service holds about 38% of Idaho's land, the highest proportion of any state. (Full article...)
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Leonard James Arrington (July 2, 1917 – February 11, 1999) was an American author, academic and the founder of the Mormon History Association. He is known as the "Dean of Mormon History" and "the Father of Mormon History" because of his many influential contributions to the field. Since 1842, he was the first non-general authority Church Historian for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), from 1972 to 1982, and was director of the Joseph Fielding Smith Institute for Church History from 1982 until 1986.
Arrington grew up in a large family in Idaho, where he and his family were members of the LDS Church. After high school, he studied agricultural economics at the University of Idaho and continued studying economics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. While teaching at the Utah State Agricultural College in Logan, Utah, Harvard University Press published his book Great Basin Kingdom: An Economic History of the Latter-day Saints, 1830–1900 in 1958. After a Fulbright professorship at the University of Genoa in Italy, Arrington raised funds to pay for research and writing on LDS (Mormon) biographies. He taught Western American History at Brigham Young University (BYU) from 1972 to 1987. (Full article...)Did you know
- ... that Jeanne Givens was the first Native American woman elected to the Idaho House of Representatives?
- ... that Priestly's Hydraulic Ram in Gooding County, Idaho, pumped water uphill with no moving parts?
- ... that upon his election in 1970, Cecil Andrus became the first Democratic governor of Idaho in 24 years, and began 24 consecutive years of Democratic governors?
- ... that Idaho television station KCIX-TV went silent awaiting a merger deal that fell apart?
- ... that the second half of the 2016 Famous Idaho Potato Bowl broke the record for the highest-scoring half in bowl game history?
- ... that KSKI AM initially broadcast from a lodge at the Sun Valley ski resort?
- ... that Idaho's first television station, KFXD-TV, was a two-man operation that lasted less than two months?
- ... that prior to his singing career, Thanasit Jaturaput was an international exchange student in Boise, Idaho, through the AFS Intercultural Programs?
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Panhandle counties shown in red (from Idaho Panhandle)
Köppen climate types in northern Idaho (from Idaho Panhandle)
City of Rocks National Reserve (from National Parks in Idaho)
Seal of Idaho Territory 1866-1890 (from History of Idaho)
Morning Glory Spire (from National Parks in Idaho)
Per capita thyroid doses in the continental United States of iodine-131 resulting from all exposure routes from all atmospheric nuclear tests conducted at the Nevada Test Site (from History of Idaho)
Seal of Idaho Territory 1863-1866 (from History of Idaho)
All female survey crew - Minidoka Project, Idaho 1918 (from History of Idaho)
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At the Mountain Home Air Force Base in Elmore County, Southwestern Idaho in September 2003 Capt. Christopher Stricklin ejected from the USAF Thunderbirds number six aircraft less than a second before it impacted the ground at an air show at the base. Stricklin, who was not injured, ejected after guiding the jet away from the crowd of more than 60,000 people
Tumblers in the 1933 issue of the Boise High School yearbook
The Boise City National Bank in 1974
The city beach in Sandpoint sits on Lake Pend Oreille
The downtown area of Atomic City, Idaho
The Treasure Valley from the east side of Bogus Basin
The Sawtooth Valley from Galena Summit, Sawtooth National Recreation Area, Idaho
An aerial view of the Power County wind farm in Power County, Idaho
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- List of bridges documented by the Historic American Engineering Record in Idaho (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs | tools) by Elizabeth Linden Rahway (talk · contribs · new pages (3)) started on 2022-05-08, score: 45
- Spence Nowinsky (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs | tools) by APocketJoker (talk · contribs · new pages (5)) started on 2022-05-07, score: 40
- Lawrence Henry Chamberlain (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs | tools) by CatchedY (talk · contribs · new pages (29)) started on 2022-05-04, score: 30
- Castilleja hispida (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs | tools) by LRFtheLion (talk · contribs · new pages (12)) started on 2022-05-03, score: 24
- 1946 Idaho Southern Branch Bengals football team (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs | tools) by Dmoore5556 (talk · contribs · new pages (3)) started on 2022-05-02, score: 45
- Fairview, Franklin County, Idaho (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs | tools) by Syberiyxx (talk · contribs · new pages (1)) started on 2022-05-02, score: 40
- Ohio Match Company Railway (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs | tools) by Kafovofa (talk · contribs · new pages (5)) started on 2022-05-01, score: 38
- 2022 Idaho State Bengals football team (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs | tools) by Bremerton98310 (talk · contribs · new pages (5)) started on 2022-04-30, score: 32
- 1944 Idaho Southern Branch Bengals football team (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs | tools) by Dmoore5556 (talk · contribs · new pages (3)) started on 2022-04-29, score: 43
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