Moscow, Idaho Moscow, Idaho Official seal of Moscow, Idaho Location in Latah County and the state of Idaho Location in Latah County and the state of Idaho Moscow, Idaho is positioned in the US Moscow, Idaho - Moscow, Idaho State Idaho Moscow (/ m sko / moss-koh) is a town/city in northern Idaho along the state border with Washington, with a populace of 23,800 at the 2010 census.
The governmental center of county and biggest city of Latah County, Moscow is the home of the University of Idaho, the state's territory grant institution and major research university, as well as the home of New Saint Andrews College, a Christian liberal arts college.
It is the principal town/city in the Moscow, Idaho Micropolitan Statistical Area, which includes all of Latah County.
The town/city contains over 60% of the county's population, and while the college is Moscow's dominant employer, the town/city also serves as an agricultural and commercial core for the Palouse region.
Along with the rest of northern Idaho, Moscow is in the Pacific Time Zone, the altitude of its town/city center is 2,579 feet (786 m) above sea level.
Major highways serving the town/city are US-95 (north-south) and Highway 8 (east-west), both of which are routed through central Moscow.
2.2 Moscow City Hall and Old Post Office 2.3 Moscow Public Library Looking south at Moscow in April 2007 Main Street runs north-south through Moscow along the 117th meridian west.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 6.85 square miles (17.74 km2), all of it land. Moscow lies on the easterly edge of the Palouse region of north central Idaho in the Columbia River Plateau.
East of the town/city is a valley inside the mountain peaks of the Palouse Range to the northeast, whose highest point is Moscow Mountain at 4,983 feet (1,519 m) above sea level.
The less prominent Paradise Ridge at 3,702 feet (1,128 m) and Tomer Butte at 3,474 feet (1,059 m) are southeast of the city. Paradise Creek, with headwaters on Moscow Mountain to the northeast, flows through Moscow, then crosses the state border and joins the south fork of the Palouse River near Pullman, which eventually drains into the Snake River and Columbia River on its way to the Pacific Ocean. The geology in and around Moscow represents varied formations: very old intrusive granite structures of the Jurassic Eocene Idaho Batholith, fertile fields up on rolling hills of deep Pleistocene loess of the Palouse Formation deposited after the last ice age by westerly winds, and flood-worn channels of the Columbia River Basalt Group. There is a range of flora and fauna inside the vicinity of Moscow.
An amphibian, the Rough-skinned Newt, has a disjunctive populace at Moscow; this species is found typically along the Pacific coast of the USA. The town/city sits at the boundary between the Palouse grasslands and wheat fields, and the conifer forests of the Rocky Mountains to the east.
The first permanent pioneer came to the Moscow region 146 years ago in 1871.
When the first US postal service opened in 1872, the town was called "Paradise Valley," but the name was changed to "Moscow" in 1875.
The name Paradise persists with the chief waterway through town, Paradise Creek, which originates at the west end of the Palouse Range, flows south to the Troy Highway, and west to Pullman where it enters the South Fork of the Palouse River.
The precise origin of the name Moscow has been disputed.
There is no conclusive proof that it has any connection to the Russian city, though various accounts suggest it was purposely evocative of the Russian town/city or titled by Russian immigrants. Another account claims that the name derives from a Native American tribe titled "Masco". It was reported by early pioneer that five men in the region met to choose a proper name for the town, but could not come to agreement on a name.
The postmaster Samuel Neff then instead of the official papers for the town and chose the name Moscow.
Interestingly, Neff was born in Moscow, Pennsylvania and later moved to Moscow, Iowa. Copy of a letter from Northern Pacific Railway agent in Moscow, likely R.W.
Arney wrote all station agents in Idaho on May 12, 1922, requesting the origin of the names of their stations for the NP's travel printed announcement Wonderland, edited by Olin D.
Moscow's agent replied May 15, 1922, as follows: A Russian from Moscow, Russia, established a trading post here, where Moscow now stands, and they decided to name it Moscow after his native town/city in Russia.
"Previous to locating Moscow, there was a trading post about one mile southeast of here.
Because its commercial and transit interests looked west, clean water south, the people of the Idaho Panhandle passionately lobbied for their region to join Washington, or to form an entirely separate state, clean water remain connected with the less accessible southern Idaho.
To appease the inhabitants of the north, the territorial council of Idaho in Boise placed the new territory grant college in Moscow, which at the time was the biggest city other than Boise in the state.
The University of Idaho was chartered in January 1889, and first opened its doors to students in October 1892. In March 1890, Moscow's neighboring city, Pullman, was chose as the home of Washington's territory grant institution.
Washington entered the union as the 42nd state in November 1889 and Idaho entered next, eight months later, in July 1890.
Moscow City Hall and Old Post Office Moscow City Hall (Idaho) Moscow Public Library Members of the Pleiades Club and Ladies' Historical Club formed a cooperative titled the Women's Reading Room Society and established a small library in the Browne building at the corner of Main and Second Streets in 1902. Moscow voters allowed a permanent tax in 1905 and with prosperous fundraising by subscription of small-town inhabitants and businesses, coupled with the Carnegie library cash, the library assembly was begun in 1905.
Later that month, a fire at the university's Administration Building totally finished that structure, so the new library was used for college classes amid the day and inhabitants used the library in the evening.
It homes a children's room titled for Moscow native Carol Ryrie Brink, the author of 1936 Newbery Medal winner Caddie Woodlawn.
The current organizational structure of library service encompasses all enhance libraries in Latah County as the Latah County Library District.
The library appreciates broad support from the people of Moscow and the County and is also supported by the Idaho Commission for Libraries (formerly the Idaho State Library.) The Moscow Public Library presently homes about 60% of Latah County Library District's 100,000 volume collection.
The library serves as resource for all the inhabitants of Moscow, or as one essayist (Ellis Clark) in the 2006 contest states, "When time, cash, or circumstances bind you to one locale, the Library is your passport for travel." The opening of Moscow Mall (now Eastside Marketplace) and the Palouse Empire Mall (now Palouse Mall) in the late 1970s shifted many retail businesses away from the aging town/city center, with buildings dating to the 1890s. The town/city developed a revitalization universal for downtown in the early 1970s that encompassed a primary traffic revision, which was enacted in 1981. Traffic from US 95 on Main Street was diverted a block away to one-way corridors on Washington (northbound) and Jackson (southbound) streets, to alleviate congestion and advancement pedestrian safety and the overall town/city center experience.
Main Street was converted from four busy lanes with metered alongside parking to two lanes of small-town retail traffic with no-charge diagonal parking; its sidewalks were modified and trees were added. At the north end of Moscow, southbound highway traffic divided west at 'D' Street to Jackson and returned to Main at 8th; the northbound route divided east at 8th, but returned to Main four blocks earlier in the north end, at 1st Street. Downtown Moscow in 2007, The return couplet from Washington Street runs from 1st Street to beyond 'A' Street; it eliminated the initial front portion (white stucco chapel) of the Corner Club tavern at the northeast corner of 'A' and Main, which was completed in early 1991 after staving off its elimination for over a decade. The building on the southeast corner, the Idaho Hotel, assembled in 1890, was razed for the traffic universal in 1977 and was a vacant lot for over a decade. The first of the new couplets was instead of amid the summer of 1991. The new southbound couplet to Jackson Street was instead of the following year in 1992 and begins north of 'C' Street.
The critical couplet at the south end of the town/city was delayed a several times for various reasons. Completed in 2000, it is two blocks south and one block east of the 1981 divider at 8th Street.
After Sweet Avenue, northbound Main Street bends a block east to align with northbound one-way Washington Street, intersecting the two-way Troy Highway from the southeast.
Another momentous change to small-town commerce was the increase of the state's legal drinking age to 21 in April 1987, after nearly fifteen years at age 19. Many establishments that relied on revenues from 19- and 20-year-olds from the two college communities had to adjust or cease operations. Prior to the lowering to 19 in July 1972, the drinking age in Idaho was 20 for beer and 21 for liquor and wine. A fixture of the Moscow horizon for nearly a century, the concrete grain elevators on south Main Street were completed in March 2007. Located on the southwest corner of 8th & Main, the elevators were last directed by the Latah County Grain Growers. The other primary concrete elevator complex, on Jackson Street south of 6th, was also slated for the wrecking ball.
Amtrak passenger train service is available in Spokane, and there is a bus station in downtown Moscow.
These parks fall under the jurisdiction of the Moscow Parks and Recreation Department.
The Moscow Pathways Commission (formerly Paradise Path Task Force) is a citizen committee seeking to precarious a fitness of linearly connected parks throughout the area.
The Moscow community, including schools and the city, led by small-town youth, raised cash over a several years to fund, design, and build a skate park which was instead of in 2000.
The Latah Trail, instead of in October 2008, extends from the easterly edge of Moscow bike path fitness to Troy, alongside to the Troy Highway (SH-8) for most of its 12 miles (19 km).
On the west side of Moscow, the Bill Chipman Trail joins the two college communities of the Palouse.
Completed in April 1998, the trail honors a Pullman businessman (and UI alumnus) who died two years earlier, following a winter highway accident in Spokane County. The Paradise Path bridges the gap in Moscow between the endpoints of the Chipman and Latah trails, passing through the north and east edges of the UI campus.
From Pullman to the boundary of Moscow (the state line), it follows the right of way of a dismantled Union Pacific barns line, and east of US-95 it follows the right of way of a dismantled BNSF barns line that junctioned at Arrow on the Clearwater River by way of Troy, Kendrick, and Juliaetta.
A small park in Moscow, Idaho, near the University of Idaho, is titled for Admiral Ghormley. The town/city was highlighted in a comedy special at University of Idaho by actor-comedian Yakov Smirnoff, filmed in late 1990. Using Moscow as its setting pokes fun at Smirnoff emigrating from Moscow, Russia. Moscow Hemp Fest April, mid-month East City Park Rendezvous in the Park July, third week East City Park East entrance the University of Idaho, Moscow, ID The University of Idaho was established by the Idaho Territory in 1889, and opened its doors 125 years ago in 1892. On the southwest flank of the city, the land-grant institution was the state's only college until 1963.
The Moscow School District operates Moscow High School (9-12), an alternative high school, a middle school (7-8), and four elementary schools (K-6). There are two enhance charter schools Moscow Charter School (K-8) and Palouse Prairie School of Expeditionary Learning (K-8).
In addition there are three private schools, Logos School (K-12), St Mary's School (K-8), and Palouse Hills Christian School (K-8).
Moscow High School (9 12) Moscow Middle School (7 8) The median age in the town/city was 24.2 years.
In the city, the age distribution of the populace shows: Moscow has a Council-Mayor form of government consisting of six Council members (at large) and a Mayor.
Council is the legislative and judicial arm of Moscow's City government; enacting ordinances and resolutions.
Council approves the City's annual budget and serves as the convening body for enhance hearings and appeals of other City Boards and Commissions.
Moscow tends to be less politically conservative than the rest of the state.
Bush in Moscow 54%-46%.
Latah County was 49.5%-48.0% for the Bush/Cheney ticket; the entire state of Idaho went 68%-30% for George W.
In the 2008 Presidential Election, Democrat Barack Obama won Moscow and Latah County 52%-45% while losing statewide 61%-36%.
Bush 53% to Democrat Al Gore's 36% and Independent Ralph Nader's 6%, The state of Idaho went to Bush 67%, to Gore 27%, with Nader at 2%.
According to the Koppen climate classification system, Moscow has a dry-summer continental climate (Koppen Dsb).
Climate data for Moscow, Idaho Average snowy days 7.4 4.9 2.9 .7 .1 0 0 0 0 .3 3.9 7.4 27.6 Moscow has one sister city, as designated by Sister Cities International: Hec Edmundson (1886 1964), basketball and track coach at Idaho and Washington, state's first Olympian (1912: 800 m, 400 m) French (1875 1954), congressman from Idaho for 26 years Tom Mc - Call (1913 83), Governor of Oregon (1967 75), Moscow journal reporter (1937 42) Dan O'Brien (1966 ) Olympic and world champion decathlete; Moscow resident (1984 1997) "Geographic Names Information System".
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