Blackfoot, Idaho Blackfoot, Idaho Business District of Blackfoot Business District of Blackfoot Location of Blackfoot, Idaho Location of Blackfoot, Idaho Blackfoot, Idaho is positioned in the US Blackfoot, Idaho - Blackfoot, Idaho State Idaho Blackfoot is a town/city in Bingham County, Idaho, United States.
The town/city is the governmental center of county of Bingham County. Blackfoot boasts the biggest potato trade in any one area, and is known as the "Potato Capital of the World." It is the site of the Idaho Potato Museum (a exhibition t shop that displays and explains the history of Idaho's potato industry), and the home of the world's biggest baked potato and potato chip.
Blackfoot is also the locale of the Eastern Idaho State Fair, which operates between Labor Day weekend and the following weekend.
Blackfoot is the principal town/city of the Blackfoot, Idaho, Micropolitan Statistical Area, which includes Bingham County.
The town/city of Blackfoot is positioned near the center of Bingham County, on the south side of the Snake River.
It was designated the governmental center of county by the Thirteenth Territorial Legislature on January 13, 1885. Originally, the governmental center of county was to be Eagle Rock (the initial name for Idaho Falls).
However, supposedly, on the evening before the legislation was to be signed, men from Blackfoot bribed a clerk to erase Eagle Rock and write in Blackfoot.
The measure went through without opposition and was signed by the governor. The origin of this accusation, written many years after the event, was a Blackfoot journal editor titled Byrd Trego.
The battle for governmental center of county between Eagle Rock and Blackfoot was a political tug-of-war involving sectional and anti-Mormon factions in the Idaho Legislature.
Dubois, who settled in Blackfoot in 1880.
The legislative maneuvering to overturn Eagle Rock as the governmental center of county naturally left "disparaging rumors intimating some skullduggery on Blackfoot's part." Stevens and Joe Warren were the first permanent white pioneer of record in Bingham County. In 1866 Stevens and Warren filed claims in the Snake River Valley near the present-day locale of Blackfoot, where they started farming and ranching. The region was a flat, expansive plain of sagebrush incessanted by Indians.
Warren outfitted his cabin with holes between the logs where men could stand guard, day or evening, until the natives left the neighborhood. When the Utah Northern Railroad signed contracts to grew north into Idaho in the 1870s, some of the pioneer laid out a town on the Shilling and Lewis homesteads. The prepared town, titled Blackfoot, which was what the region had been called by fur traders, was near the Corbett stage station, about a mile from the Snake River, and two miles from the Blackfoot River. On July 1, 1880, Wheeler began publishing a journal called the Blackfoot Register. The first copy described the businesses in operation in Blackfoot on the printed announcement date: "four general merchandise stores, one jewelry store, a livery stable, four saloons, a hotel, one meat market, two blacksmith shops, one barber shop and one lumber yard." Henry W.
The first copy of the Blackfoot Register also described "a ditch being dug from the Blackfoot River that would irrigate a several thousand acres." It was their plan to bring the water into town so inhabitants could expanded plant nurseries and plant trees. The goal was finally realized in 1886 when Alfred Moyes planted the first shade trees in the Upper Snake River Valley around the Blackfoot Courthouse. Others in town followed suit and inside a several years Blackfoot's tree-lined streets had a reputation that earned the nickname "Grove City." Blackfoot is positioned at 43 11 24 N 112 20 46 W (43.190068, -112.346037). According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 6.07 square miles (15.72 km2), of which 5.83 square miles (15.10 km2) is territory and 0.24 square miles (0.62 km2) is water. Blackfoot has a semi-arid climate (Koppen BSk) with cold winters and hot, dry summers.
Climate data for Blackfoot, Idaho There were 4,229 homeholds of which 39.3% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 51.4% were married couples living together, 13.0% had a female homeholder with no husband present, 5.6% had a male homeholder with no wife present, and 30.1% were non-families.
25.6% of all homeholds were made up of individuals and 11.2% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.
The median age in the town/city was 30.8 years.
31.3% of inhabitants were under the age of 18; 9.6% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 25.5% were from 25 to 44; 20.8% were from 45 to 64; and 12.8% were 65 years of age or older.
At the 2000 census, there were 10,419 citizens , 3,685 homeholds and 2,682 families residing in the city.
There were 3,685 homeholds of which 38.8% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 56.9% were married couples living together, 11.8% had a female homeholder with no husband present, and 27.2% were non-families.
23.7% of all homeholds were made up of individuals and 10.7% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.
31.2% of the populace were under the age of 18, 10.9% from 18 to 24, 25.5% from 25 to 44, 18.9% from 45 to 64, and 13.4% who were 65 years of age or older.
The per capita income for the town/city was $15,529 About 11.5% of families and 14.6% of the populace were below the poverty line, including 22.4% of those under age 18 and 5.7% of those age 65 or over.
Blackfoot is served by the Blackfoot School District #55 and the Snake River School District #52. Blackfoot High School Idaho Science And Technology Charter School Snake River Junior High School Blackfoot Sixth Grade School Blackfoot Charter Community Learning Center Blackfoot is mentioned in the song "When Cowboys Didn't Dance" by Lonestar as the destination of a cattle drive.
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