Lewiston, Idaho Lewiston, Idaho Lewiston from the north Lewiston from the north Nez Perce County Idaho Incorporated and Unincorporated areas Lewiston Highlighted.svg Lewiston, Idaho is positioned in the US Lewiston, Idaho - Lewiston, Idaho Lewiston is a town/city in north central Idaho and the governmental center of county of Nez Perce County. It is the second-largest town/city in the northern Idaho region, behind Coeur d'Alene, and ninth-largest in the state.
Lewiston is the principal town/city of the Lewiston, ID - Clarkston, WA Metropolitan Statistical Area, which includes all of Nez Perce County and Asotin County, Washington.
As of the 2010 census, the populace of Lewiston was 31,894, up from 30,904 in 2000.
Lewiston is positioned at the confluence of the Snake River and Clearwater River, thirty miles (50 km) southeast of the Lower Granite Dam.
Because of dams (and their locks) on the Snake and Columbia River, Lewiston is reachable by some ocean-going vessels.
The Port of Lewiston (Idaho's only seaport) has the distinct ion of being the farthest inland port east of the West Coast of the United States.
Lewiston was established 156 years ago in 1861 in the wake of a gold rush which began the previous year near Pierce, northeast of Lewiston.
In 1863, Lewiston became the first capital of the newly created Idaho Territory.
Lewiston's chief industries are agriculture, paper, and timber products, and light manufacturing.
Lewiston is home to Lewis Clark State College, a enhance undergraduate college.
Cultural activities in Lewiston include the Dogwood Festival, Hot August Nights, and the Lewiston Roundup.
The first citizens of European lineage to visit the Lewiston region were members of the David Thompson expedition of 1803.
The town is believed to have been titled after Meriwether Lewis and after Victor Trevitt's hometown of Lewiston, Maine, but citizens don't know that was the reason Vic Trevitt shouted the idea out.
The town was established in 1861 in the wake of a gold rush which began the previous year near Pierce, northeast of Lewiston.
The first journal in present-day Idaho, the Lewiston Teller began printed announcement in the town/city of Lewiston, Washington Territory in 1862, and was joined by the present (and only) newspaper, the Lewiston Morning Tribune in September 1892.
In 1863 Lewiston became the capital of the newly created Idaho Territory.
Beall, one of the first three white pioneer in Lewiston, wrote many of the Lewiston Tribune's first articles, and continued to do so until his death at the age of 89.
Lewiston's stint as a seat of the new territory's government was short-lived.
As the gold rush quieted in northern Idaho, it heated up in a new mineral rush in southwestern Idaho, centered in Idaho City, which would turn into the biggest city in the Northwest in the mid-1860s.
A resolution, to have the capital moved from Lewiston to Boise, was passed by the Idaho Territorial Legislature on December 7, 1864, six weeks before the territorial legislature's session legally began, and after litigation, on a split decision decided by one vote on the territorial supreme court on geographic lines.
So, the territorial governor, Caleb Lyon and the territorial secretary, secretly took the territorial seal, archives and treasury and fled from Lewiston, their territorial capital.
Lewiston State Normal School, now Lewis-Clark State College, was established in 1893, as was another normal school or teacher education college, now defunct, in the south at Albion.
Lewiston was the site of the first enhance school in Idaho, beginning in 1862.
Hence, it carries the designation of Lewiston Independent School District #1.
Lewiston and sister town/city Clarkston, WA; looking northwest, in February 2013 Gene Mueller, who presented Lewiston: From packtrains and tent saloons to highways and brick stores : a century of progress, 1861-1962 and Lewiston: A pictorial history.
Lewiston is positioned at the confluence of the Snake and Clearwater rivers.
Immediately west of Lewiston is the lesser twin town/city of Clarkston, Washington.
The north-flowing Snake River departs Hells Canyon and forms the state boundary with Washington, while west-flowing Clearwater River defines the northern border of the city.
At their confluence at the city's northwest corner, the lower Snake River turns west into Washington, and after passing four dams, empties into the Columbia River at Burbank.
Thirty miles (50 km) northwest of the town/city is the Lower Granite Dam, the last and upper-most of the four dams on the lower Snake River, the biggest tributary of the Columbia River.
It was instead of in 1972 and raised the river level back to Lewiston, effectively making it the easterly end of the new reservoir, Lower Granite Lake.
At 465 river miles (750 km) from the Pacific Ocean at mouth of the Columbia River adjoining to Astoria, Oregon, the Port of Lewiston has the distinct ion of being the most inland seaport east of the West Coast and Idaho's only seaport.
Lewiston's chief industries are agriculture, paper and timber products manufacturing at the foundry owned and directed by the Clearwater Paper Corporation (until December 2008, a part of the Potlatch Corporation) and light manufacturing.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 18.04 square miles (46.72 km2), of which 17.23 square miles (44.63 km2) is territory and 0.81 square miles (2.10 km2) is water. Downtown Lewiston, at 756 feet (230 m), is only slightly higher in altitude than the river, about 740 ft (226 m), which was thirty feet (9 m) lower before to the culmination of the dam.
The lowest point in the state of Idaho is positioned on the Snake River in Lewiston, where it flows out of Idaho and into Washington.
Lewiston experiences a semi-arid climate (Koppen BSk) with occasionally cold but short winters but mostly influenced by mild Pacific air, and hot, dry summers.
The monthly daily average temperature ranges from 33.7 F (0.9 C) in December to 74.4 F (23.6 C) in July; the temperature reaches 100 F (38 C) on 7.7 days, 90 F (32 C) on 42 days, and does not rise above freezing on 14 days annually.
Climate data for Lewiston, Idaho (1981 2010 normals) Average snowy days ( 0.1 in) 2.2 1.8 .6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1.1 3.6 9.3 On the city's north end, the old 10-mile US highway 95 that climbs 2,000 vertical feet (610 m) of the Lewiston Hill (elev.
In the city, the populace was spread out with 23.3% under the age of 18, 10.7% from 18 to 24, 26.7% from 25 to 44, 22.3% from 45 to 64, and 17.0% who were 65 years of age or older.
Clearwater Paper's large wood pulp mill, Lewiston, 2010 Lewiston's economy has historically been driven by agriculture and manufacturing activity.
Lewiston's locale at the confluence of the Snake River and Clearwater River made it a natural distribution point due to its seaport. The Port of Lewiston is Idaho's only seaport and is navigable for barges which transport grain, legumes, paper, lumber and other goods up and down the Columbia River. Paper product manufacturer, Clearwater Paper is the biggest employer in the manufacturing sector. Ammunition manufacturing maintains an meaningful and burgeoning existence in Lewiston. Ammunition manufacturer CCI, and Speer Bullet (both now brands of Vista Outdoor) are headquartered in Lewiston and Extreme Bullet has a plant in the town/city as well. As the urbane core of the Lewis-Clark Valley, Lewiston is the major county-wide transportation, retail, community care, wholesale and experienced services, and entertainment center. With the existence of Lewis Clark State College, it is also a center for education and workforce training.
Lewiston's economy is slowly diversifying, which has helped keep the economy stable. Lewiston serves as a recreation destination for the Hells Canyon National Recreation Area. Lewiston is home to Lewis-Clark State College and the enhance secondary schools are Lewiston High School, Jenifer Junior High, and Sacajawea Junior High.
In athletics, Lewiston High competes in IHSAA Class 5 - A, for the biggest enrollments in the state, in the Inland Empire League (5 - A).
Lewiston has the earliest school fitness in Idaho, started in 1863.
The Lewiston School District is Independent School District #1.
View from north of Lewiston (left) During the Christmas and Easter seasons, the Lewiston Jaycees have two large lighted displays on the Lewiston Hill (technically, the Washington side, and specifically, in Whitman County, above Clarkston in Washington state), visible from nearly everywhere in the valley.
Every year, with cooperation from the city, Lewis-Clark State College hosts the Avista NAIA World Series in May, and the Lewiston Round Up in September.
The Lewiston Round Up is a member of the Big 4 or Big Money 4 (along with Pendleton Round-up, Walla Walla Fair and Rodeo and Ellensburg Rodeo) and a top 50 PRCA rodeo.
Lewiston had a prominent Northwest League experienced baseball charter from 1952-1974.
A roster check in 1967 showed that 40% of the players and coaches of the Kansas City Athletics had been in Lewiston at one time or another.
Reggie Jackson was perhaps the most famous Lewiston Bronc of all-time; Mr.
October played 20 games for Lewiston in 1966.
After years of financial losses, the team was shut down in Lewiston in January 1975 and resurfaced in June in southwestern Idaho as the Boise A's for two seasons. Lewiston's paper is the Lewiston Morning Tribune.
"Average Weather for Lewiston, ID - Temperature and Precipitation".
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