Boise, Idaho Boise, Idaho City of Boise Skyline of Boise, Idaho Flag of Boise, Idaho Flag Official seal of Boise, Idaho Boise, Idaho is positioned in the US Boise, Idaho - Boise, Idaho Body Boise City Council Boise (Listeni/b si/) is the capital and most crowded city of the U.S.
Located on the Boise River in southwestern Idaho, the populace of Boise at the 2010 Enumeration was 205,671, the 99th biggest in the nation.
Downtown Boise in Fall 2013 It contains the state's three biggest cities; Boise, Nampa, and Meridian.
Boise is the third most crowded urbane region in the United States' Pacific Northwest region, behind Seattle and Portland.
2.1.1 Downtown Boise 2.1.2 Boise State University Timeline of Boise, Idaho Floating the Boise River After trekking for weeks through dry and rough terrain, his exploration party reached an overlook with a view of the Boise River Valley.
Set in a high-desert area, the tree-lined valley of the Boise River became a distinct landmark, an oasis dominated by cottonwood trees.
The region was called Boise long before the establishment of Fort Boise by the federal government.
The initial Fort Boise was 40 miles (64 km) west, near Parma, down the Boise River near its confluence with the Snake River at the Oregon border.
The new locale was chose because it was near the intersection of the Oregon Trail with a primary road connecting the Boise Basin (Idaho City) and the Owyhee (Silver City) quarrying areas, both of which were booming.
During the mid-1860s, Idaho City was the biggest city in the Northwest, and as a staging area, Fort Boise interval rapidly; Boise was incorporated as a town/city 154 years ago in 1863.
But following the creation of Montana Territory, Boise was made the territorial capital of a much reduced Idaho in a controversial decision which overturned a precinct court ruling by a one-vote majority in the territorial supreme court along geographic lines in 1866.
Astronaut Photography of Boise Idaho taken from the International Space Station (ISS) Boise is positioned in southwestern Idaho, about 41 miles (66 km) east of the Oregon border, and 110 miles (177 km) north of the Nevada border.
Mountains rise to the northeast, stretching from the far southeastern tip of the Boise town/city limits to close-by Eagle.
These mountain peaks are known to locals as the Boise foothills and are sometimes described as the foothills of the Rocky Mountains.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 80.05 square miles (207.33 km2), of which, 79.36 square miles (205.54 km2) is territory and 0.69 square miles (1.79 km2) is water. The town/city is drained by the Boise River.
The City of Boise is considered part of the Treasure Valley.
Boise is situated in a large region 64 sq mi (170 km2) as stated to the United States Enumeration Bureau.
These include the Bench, the North End, West Boise and Downtown, among others.
In January 2014 the Boise Police Department partnered with the folksonomic neighborhood blogging site Nextdoor, the first town/city in the Northwest and the 137th town/city in the U.S.
A view from the penthouse of the Owhyee Hotel in early July 2014; the Boise Hills and enhance art ("Little Boy") on the Alaska Building are prominent.
Downtown Boise Downtown Boise is Boise's cultural center and home to many small businesses and a several mid-rises.
While downtown Boise lacks a primary retail/dining focus like Seattle, Portland, and Spokane, the region has a range of shops and burgeoning option for dining choices.
The region contains the Basque Block, which gives visitors a chance to learn about and appreciate Boise's Basque heritage.
Downtown Boise's chief attractions include the Idaho State Capitol, the classic Egyptian Theatre on the corner of Capitol Boulevard and Main Street, the Boise Art Museum on Capitol in front of Julia Davis Park, and Zoo Boise positioned on the grounds of Julia Davis Park. Boise's economy was threatened in the late 1990s by commercial evolution at locations away from the downtown center, such as Boise Towne Square Mall and at shopping centers positioned near new housing developments. Cultural affairs in Downtown Boise include Alive after Five and First Thursday. Boise State University To the south of downtown Boise is Boise State University and its encircling environs.
The unique blue playing field at the 37,000-seat Albertsons Stadium on the BSU campus, home to the Boise State Broncos football team, is a primary city landmark.
The North End, generally defined as the part of Boise north of State Street, contains many of the city's older homes. It is known for its tree-lined drives such as Harrison Boulevard, and for its quiet neighborhoods near the downtown area.
Downtown Boise is visible from Camel's Back Park. On 13th Street, Hyde Park is home to restaurants and other businesses.
In 2008, the American Planning Association (APA) designated Boise's North End one of 10 Great Neighborhoods. The Boise Highlands is positioned just north of The North End.
Southwest Boise contains sparsely populated neighborhoods assembled from the 1960s to the early 1980s.
The region lies near Interstate 84, theaters, shopping, the airport, golf and the Boise Bench area.
Northwest Boise lies against the Boise Foothills to the north, State Street to the south, the town/city of Eagle to the west, and downtown Boise to the east.
Northwest Boise has some pockets of older homes with a similar beautiful to the North End.
Downtown is minutes away, as is Veteran's Memorial Park and easy access to the Boise Greenbelt.
Across the river sits the Boise Bench and to the west are the bedroom communities of Eagle, Star, and Middleton.
Warm Springs is centered on the tree-lined Warm Springs Avenue and contains some of Boise's biggest and most expensive homes (many of which were erected by wealthy miners and businessmen around the turn of the 20th century; Victorian styles feature prominently).
The region gets its name from the natural hot springs that flow from Boise's fault line and warm many of the homes in the area.
It now has some new residentiary developments, with easy access to Highway 21, which leads to the south-central Idaho mountain peaks, the Boise River, the Boise Foothills, Idaho Department of Parks and Recreation, and the Idaho Shakespeare Festival.
Southeast Boise spans from Boise State University to Micron Technology all areas between Federal Way and the Boise River.
The older region just south of the college can be described as a cross between the North End and the Boise bench.
The rest of Southeast Boise was advanced in the last thirty years with suburban-style homes.
Columbia Village subdivision and the older Oregon Trail Heights were the first primary planned communities in Southeast Boise with an elementary and middle school all inside walking distance from all homes.
Highway), which are all primary arteries to get anywhere in Boise.
The Bench, generally bounded by Federal Way to the east, Cole Road to the west and Garden City to the north, sits on an altitude approximately 60 feet (18 m) higher than downtown Boise to its northeast.
The Bench (or Benches, there are three actual benches in the Boise Valley) was created as an ancient shoreline to the old river channel.
The Bench is home to the Boise Union Pacific Depot.
Due south of the Bench is the Boise Airport. West Boise is home to Boise Towne Square Mall, the biggest in the state, as well as various restaurants, strip malls, and residentiary developments ranging from new subdivisions to apartment complexes.
It is mostly the flattest section of Boise, with sweeping views of the Boise Front.
West Boise also borders the town/city of Meridian, Idaho.
Downtown Boise as seen from the Boise Bench Boise, Idaho from Camelsback Park.
Boise, Idaho from the Aspen Condos and Lofts.
Boise experiences hot and dry summers with highs reaching 100 F (38 C) eight days in a typical year and 90 F (32 C) on 51 days. Yet because of the aridity, average diurnal temperature variation exceeds 30 F (17 C) in summer.
Tornadoes are rare in Ada County and the Boise area.
Climate data for Boise Airport, Idaho (1981 2010 normals, extremes 1875 present) Buildings along Main Street in downtown Boise.
Boise is the command posts for a several major companies, such as Boise Cascade LLC, Albertsons, J.R.
Other primary industries are headquartered in Boise or have large manufacturing facilities present.
The area's biggest private, locally based, publicly interchanged employer is Micron Technology. Others include IDACORP, Inc., the parent business of Idaho Power, Idaho Bancorp, Boise, Inc., American Ecology Corp., and PCS Edventures.com Inc.
The initial airmail contract was from Pasco to Elko, Nevada with stops in Boise in both directions.
The business is the root of present-day United Airlines, which still serves the town/city at the newly renovated and upgraded Boise Airport.
According to Boise Valley Economic Partnership, the top employers in the town/city are: 3 Boise State University 4,700-4,799 5 Independent School District Boise City #1 3,800-3,899 Boise Art Museum Several theater groups operate in the city, including the Idaho Shakespeare Festival, Boise Little Theatre, Boise Contemporary Theater, and Prairie Dog Productions, among others.
Downtown Boise features a vibrant section known as the "Basque Block".
Boise is home to a several exhibitions, including the Boise Art Museum, Idaho Historical Museum, the Basque Museum and Cultural Center, Idaho Black History Museum, Boise Water - Shed and the Discovery Center of Idaho.
On the first Thursday of each month, a loggia stroll known as First Thursday is hosted in the city's core company precinct by the Downtown Boise Association.
Boise also has a grow performing arts community.
The Boise Philharmonic, now in its 49th season, under the leadership of Music Director and Conductor Robert Franz continues to expanded musically, and introduces excellent guest artists and composers year after year.
The dance improve is represented by the resurgent Ballet Idaho under creative director Peter Anastos, and the nationally known and critically acclaimed Trey Mc - Intyre Project also make their home in Boise.
Morrison Center for the Performing Arts, on the Boise State University campus.
The Boise City Department of Arts and History was created in 2008 with the goal of promoting the arts, culture, and history of the town/city among its inhabitants and visitors. Since 1978 Boise City had a enhance arts commission like many metros/cities to promote enhance art and education.
The Arts Commission provided expert advice on enhance art installations to the town/city and private groups, as well as to precarious many educational programs inside the town/city promoting the arts.
In 2008 the town/city and the Arts Commission made the decision to introduce history into the scope of the art commission and rename this new commission the Boise City Department of Arts and History. The Boise City Department of Arts and History oversees a several ongoing projects and programs related to art, culture, and history, and a number of short-term projects at any given time.
Some ongoing projects include: Maintenance of a enhance art compilation valued at over $3 million, Creation and maintenance of town/city historical and art walks and tours, Maintenance of a town/city historical research collection, Artists in Residence, and the Fettuccine Forum. In 2013, Boise jubilated its sesquicentennial, the commemoration was also known as the Boise 150.
The commemoration was led by the City of Boise's Department of Arts & History.
This Boise 150 headquarters, also known as the Sesqui-Shop directed as a store, exhibit space, and event venue.
According to a 2012 study performed by Americans for the Arts, arts, both enhance and private, in Boise is a forty-eight million dollar per year industry. The same study also cited the arts in and around Boise as a supplier of jobs for about 1600 citizens and producer of roughly $4.4 million in revenue to state and small-town government.
The Boise Centre on the Grove is an 85,000-square-foot (7,900 m2) meeting hall that hosts a range of affairs, including international, national, and county-wide conventions, conferences, banquets, and consumer shows.
It is positioned in the heart of downtown Boise and borders the Grove Plaza, which hosts various outside functions throughout the year including the New Year's Eve celebration, the Idaho Potato Drop hosted by the Idaho New Year's Commission.
Boise (along with Valley and Boise Counties) hosted the 2009 Special Olympics World Winter Games.
A number of recreational opportunities are available in Boise, including extensive hiking and biking in the foothills to the immediate north of downtown.
An extensive urban trail fitness called the Boise River Greenbelt runs along the river and through Pierce Park.
The Boise River itself is a common destination for fishing, swimming and rafting.
An Africa exhibit, instead of in 2008, is the most recent addition. Boise is also home to the Idaho Aquarium.
Professional sports squads in Boise include the Boise Hawks of the short-season Class A Northwest League (minor league baseball), the Idaho Steelheads of the ECHL (minor league hockey), the Idaho Stampede of the NBA Development League (minor league basketball), and the Treasure Valley Spartans (semi-pro football) of the (Rocky Mountain Football League).
On the sports entertainment front, Boise is home to an all-female, DIY, flat track roller derby league, the Treasure Valley Rollergirls, which beginning on Labor Day Weekend 2010 hosted an international, two-day, double elimination tournament, the first Spudtown Knockdown, featuring eight squads from throughout the American West and Canada. The Boise State University ground is home to Albertsons Stadium, the 36,800 seat football stadium known for its blue Field Turf field; and Taco Bell Arena, a 12,000 seat basketball and entertainment venue which opened in 1982 as the BSU Pavilion.
Boise State University is known primarily for the recent successes of its football team.
The cornerstone mall in Boise, Boise Towne Square Mall, is also a primary shopping attraction for Boise, Nampa, Caldwell, and encircling areas.
Boise is home to many a great coffee improve and many cafes, including both chains and small-town venues. Idaho Steelheads ECHL Ice hockey Century - Link Arena Boise 1997 2 Overall, Boise is considered to be a safe city.
In 2007, there were 3,211 crimes per 100,000 residents. In 2006, Boise was ranked #1 on Farmer's Insurance list of the most secure places to live. Even with population growth, violent crime has remained much the same as of 2013, with 600 incidents of violent crime and three murders in that year. The Boise School District includes 31 elementary schools, 8 junior high schools, 5 high schools and 2 specialty schools. Part of the West Ada School District (now the biggest in Idaho) is inside the Boise town/city limits, and the town/city is therefore home to six enhance high schools: Boise, Borah, Capital, Timberline, the alternative Frank Church, and the Meridian district's Centennial.
Boise's private schools include the Catholic Bishop Kelly, Foothills School of Arts and Sciences, and the International Baccalaureate-accredited Riverstone International School.
Post-secondary educational options in Boise include Boise State University (BSU) and a wide range of technical schools.
The University of Idaho (UI) and Idaho State University (ISU) each maintain a satellite ground in Boise.
The Concordia University School of Law opened in 2012, and the University of Idaho College of Law now hosts second and third year students at its Boise Campus. Boise is home to Boise Bible College, an undergraduate degree-granting college that exists to train leaders for churches as well as missionaries for the world.
Media in Boise, Idaho The greater-Boise region is served by two daily newspapers, The Idaho Statesman and the Idaho Press-Tribune; a no-charge alternative newsweekly, Boise Weekly; a weekly company news publication, Idaho Business Review, and a quarterly lifestyle magazine, Boise Magazine.
In addition to various airways broadcasts, Boise has five primary commercial tv stations that serve the greater Boise area.
The primary Interstate serving Boise is I-84, which joins Boise with Portland, Oregon, and Salt Lake City, Utah.
In addition, inhabitants in the Boise region are served with Interstate 184 (locally known as "The Connector"), a nearly 5-mile (8 km) stretch of freeway connecting I-84 with the downtown Boise area.
There is a network of bike paths, such as the Boise River Greenbelt, throughout the town/city and encircling region.
In addition, the Downtown Circulator, a proposed streetcar system, is in its planning stage. The assembly of the underground enhance transit hub (UPT Hub) in Boise in the parking lot site near the intersection of W Main Street and N 8th Street is scheduled for culmination by mid-2016. Amtrak passenger train service was previously available in Boise until May 10, 1997, when Amtrak discontinued the service. Previously, since 1977, the Pioneer had twice-daily service through Boise as the train made its way between Seattle and Salt Lake City.
Johnny Sequoyah, child actress, best known for starring in Believe, born in Boise Downtown Boise horizon at midnight Boise Metropolitan Area, as seen from foothills above town/city Official records have been kept at downtown Boise from January 1875 to December 1939, and at Boise Air Terminal (Airport) since January 1940.
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