Idaho Falls, Idaho Idaho Falls Idaho Falls, I Official seal of Idaho Falls Bonneville County Idaho Incorporated and Unincorporated areas Idaho Falls Highlighted.svg Idaho Falls is positioned in the US Idaho Falls - Idaho Falls State Idaho Idaho Falls is a town/city in and the governmental center of county of Bonneville County, Idaho, United States, and is the biggest city in Eastern Idaho. As of the 2010 census, the populace of Idaho Falls was 56,813, with a metro populace of 136,108. As of 2013, the populace was estimated at 58,292. Idaho Falls is the principal town/city of the Idaho Falls, Idaho Metropolitan Travel Destination and the Idaho Falls-Blackfoot, Idaho Combined Travel Destination and is the state's biggest city outside the Boise urbane region and is the third-largest metro region behind Boise City-Nampa and Coeur d'Alene, which is adjoining to the larger Spokane urbane area.
Idaho Falls serves as a core to all of easterly Idaho and much of Wyoming.
Due to its relative economic vitality, high character of life, and adjacency to world-class outside recreation, it is often featured in various publications' lists of "best places to live." The region is served by the Idaho Falls Regional Airport and is home to the Idaho Falls Chukars minor league baseball team, and the Idaho Mustangs, a semi-professional football team that plays in the Rocky Mountain Football League.
What became Idaho Falls was the site of Taylor's Crossing on the Montana Trail which was a timber frame bridge assembled across the Snake River.
The 1865 bridge was assembled by Matt Taylor who was a Montana Trail freighter who assembled a toll bridge athwart a narrow black basaltic gorge of the river that succeeded a ferry seven miles upstream by a several years. Taylor's bridge served the new tide of westward migration and travel in the region that followed the military suppression of Shoshone resistance at the Bear River Massacre near Preston, Idaho in 1863.
The bridge improved travel for pioneer moving north and west and also for miners, freighters, and the rest seeking riches in the gold fields of Idaho and Montana and especially the boom suburbs of Bannack and Virginia City in Montana.
Idaho Falls on the Snake River with the Idaho Falls Idaho Temple in the background The name was derived from an isolated basalt island in the Snake River, 7 miles (11 km) upstream at 43 36.112 N 112 3.528 W in the Snake River that was the nesting site for approximately twenty eagles.
In 1891 the town voted to change its name to Idaho Falls, in reference to the rapids that existed below the bridge.
In 1895 the biggest irrigation canal in the world at that time, the Great Feeder, began diverting water from the Snake River and aided in converting tens of thousands of acres of desert into green farmland in the vicinity of Idaho Falls.
Idaho National Lab CAES The Idaho National Laboratory, the University of Idaho, Idaho State University, Boise State University, and the University of Wyoming have labs, classrooms, offices, and other facilities just north of downtown.
The Idaho National Laboratory (INL), as it is now known, remains a primary economic engine for the town/city of Idaho Falls, employing more than 8,000 citizens and functioning as an internationally famous research and development office.
Bonneville Hotel in Downtown Idaho Falls Idaho Falls serves as a county-wide core for community care, travel and company in easterly Idaho.
The community's economy was mostly agriculturally concentrated until the opening of the National Reactor Testing Station in the desert west of Idaho Falls in 1949.
The town/city later became largely dependent on high-income jobs from the Idaho National Laboratory (INL), known locally simply as "The Site." Idaho Falls was titled by Business Week on the 2010 list of "Best Places to Raise Kids". Forbes.com chose Idaho Falls as one of the "2010 Best Small Places for Business & Careers". Money.CNN.com encompassed Idaho Falls as one of their "Top 100 Cities in 2010". Idaho Falls has turn into a county-wide company hub.
It hosts the command posts of the United Potato Growers of Idaho and District 7 of the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare.
The median home price in Idaho Falls was $224,800 in January 2007. Idaho Falls, Idaho / U.S.
Entrance to the Idaho Falls Tautphaus Park Zoo Idaho Falls has established itself as a county-wide cultural destination.
Idaho Falls is the first town/city of its size to home the prominent attraction.
Downtown Idaho Falls once struggled as the town/city period eastward, but it has been revitalized in recent years due to the accomplishments of small-town business owners, the City of Idaho Falls, and other organizations such as the Downtown Development Corporation and the Idaho Falls Chamber of Commerce.
Due to its adjacency to so many outside destinations, Idaho Falls was recently titled to National Geographic's list of "100 Best Adventure Towns". Idaho Falls has an extensive greenbelt, or riverbelt, along miles of the Snake River, which flows through the center of the city.
It is maintained by the City of Idaho Falls, and often receives donations and grants which allow for occasional expansion.
The Idaho Falls Redevelopment Agency with the approval of former mayor Jared Fuhriman period the greenbelt.
This expansion added in a roundabout which improved traffic flow in the town/city around the greenbelt and the Idaho Falls Temple. Notable Idaho Falls neighborhoods include: The Numbered Streets - The numbered streets region was the first prepared neighborhood in Idaho Falls.
Today, the west side is expected to boom in populace and commercial activeness due to primary developments such as Taylor Crossing and Snake River Landing, as well as the Areva uranium enrichment facility prepared west of the city.
The west side also homes Idaho Falls Regional Airport as well as the entirety of I-15's brief jaunt through the city.
The altitude of Idaho Falls is 4,700 feet (1,400 m).
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 22.80 square miles (59.05 km2), of which, 22.35 square miles (57.89 km2) is territory and 0.45 square miles (1.17 km2) is water. Tornadoes are rare, though a F2 tornado did hit the Idaho Falls region on April 7, 1978 causing up to $5 million in damage. Climate data for Idaho Falls, Idaho The top five ethnic groups in Idaho Falls are: Idaho Falls is home to a several college studies options, including Eastern Idaho Technical College, established in 1969 as a vocational-technical college.
A unique satellite ground called University Place features dual enrollment for students in both Pocatello-based Idaho State University and Moscow-based University of Idaho.
CAES is run by a partnership of Idaho's three research universities (UI, ISU, Boise State) and Idaho National Laboratory (INL).
Idaho Falls is served by the Idaho Falls School District #91 and Bonneville Joint School District #93.
District #91 covers the majority of urban Idaho Falls and a small portion of Bonneville county west of the city.
District #93 covers minimal parts of easterly Idaho Falls, and the remainder of Bonneville County with the exception of some remote areas that have autonomous elementary districts.
All middle and high school students are transported in to District #93 secondary schools.
Idaho Falls is home to a total of five primary enhance high schools, two alternative high schools, one magnet high school, four middle schools, and 26 elementary schools.
Bonneville High School Southeast Entrance of Bonneville High School The west entrance to Hillcrest High School Idaho Falls High School Idaho Falls High School Skyline High School, Idaho Falls, Idaho, United States Thunder Ridge High School (scheduled to open in fall 2018) Falls Valley Elementary School The Idaho Falls region also offers three enhance charter school options: Taylor's Crossing Public Charter School, White Pine Charter School, and Monticello Montessori Public Charter School.
Each fall, the varsity football squads of Idaho Falls and Skyline High Schools compete in a rival football game called the Emotion Bowl, at Idaho Falls' Ravsten Stadium, which is shared by the two schools.
The winning team and its fans traditionally paint the goalposts of the stadium in their school colors (orange for Idaho Falls High School, and blue for Skyline High School) after each Emotion Bowl. Bonneville High School and Hillcrest High School participate in a similar event, known as the Civil War.
Clark - Governor of Idaho 1937-1939.
Mayor of Idaho Falls 1913 15, 1926 36 Yo Murphy - former CFL/NFL wide receiver; played at Idaho Falls High School Brandi Sherwood - Miss Idaho Teen USA 1989, Miss Teen USA 1989, Miss Idaho USA 1997, Miss USA 1997 (succeeded) Smith - head football coach at Michigan State, Louisville, Utah State, Idaho, and Arkansas Idaho Falls has a sister city, as designated by Sister Cities International: Fountain and sculpture on Utah Street in Idaho Falls Geese on falls wall Idaho Falls Idaho State Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Freeman Park Sculpture of Snake River Fur Trapper by Roy Reynolds on the bank of the Snake River (on the greenbelt) in Idaho Falls Idaho Falls Library; sculpture by Marilyn Hoff Hansen dedicated to Wilson Rawls, author of Where the Red Fern Grows Table 4: Annual Estimates of the Population for Incorporated Places in Idaho, Listed Alphabetically: April 1, 2000 to July 1, 2006 (SUB-EST2006-04-16) Accessed 16 July 2007 a b MD Beal, A History of Southeastern Idaho, 1942, p.
Proving the Principle - A History of The Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory, 1949-1999 (PDF).
Department of Energy, Idaho Operations Office.
Proving the Principle - A History of The Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory, 1949-1999 (PDF).
Department of Energy, Idaho Operations Office.
The Idaho Business Review.
Museum of Idaho Adventure Town: Idaho Falls, Idaho "Monthly Averages for Idaho Falls, ID".
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Idaho Falls Post Register 24 July 2002, pg.C8, "I.F.'s Brush with Fame" "Japanese students visit Idaho Falls for sister town/city exchange".
Local News 8 of Idaho.
Wikivoyage has a travel guide for Idaho Falls.
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