Sandpoint, Idaho Sandpoint, Idaho Downtown Sandpoint, ID Downtown Sandpoint, ID Location in Bonner County, Idaho Location in Bonner County, Idaho State Idaho County Bonner Sandpoint is the biggest town in, and the governmental center of county of, Bonner County, Idaho, United States. Its populace was 7,365 at the 2010 census.
Sandpoint's primary economic contributors include forest products, light manufacturing, tourism, recreation and government services.
As the biggest service center in the two northern Idaho counties (Bonner and Boundary), as well as northwestern Montana, it has an active retail sector.
Sandpoint lies on the shores of Idaho's biggest lake, 43-mile-long Lake Pend Oreille, and is surrounded by three primary mountain peaks, the Selkirk, Cabinet and Bitterroot ranges.
It is home to Schweitzer Mountain Resort, Idaho's biggest ski resort, and is on the International Selkirk Loop and two National Scenic Byways (Wild Horse Trail and Pend Oreille Scenic Byway).
Among other distinct ions awarded by nationwide media in the past decade, in 2011 Sandpoint was titled the nation's "Most Beautiful Small Town" by Rand Mc - Nally and USA Today. The Salish Tribes, specifically the Kalispel and the Kootenai assembled encampments on the shore of Lake Pend Oreille every summer, fished, made baskets of cedar, and collected huckleberries before returning to either Montana or Washington in the fall.
In August 1888, twenty-nine-year-old author and civil servant Theodore Roosevelt visited Sandpoint on a caribou-hunting trip in the Selkirk Mountains. Roosevelt documented what a rough-and-tumble surrounding "Sand Point" was at that time (and for many decades following).
Sandpoint was officially incorporated in 1898.
The lumber companies bought territory from the Northern Pacific Railroad and assembled a primary mill at Sandpoint and adjoining Kootenai.
Farming and ranching became the third biggest company in the area, behind lumber and barns s, before to the "discovery" of Lake Pend Oreille as a sports fishery in the 1950s.
The economy was given a boost amid World War II from Farragut Naval Station, a training center for the US Navy positioned at the southwestern end of Lake Pend Oreille.
The beauty of the encircling Selkirk and Cabinet Mountains and Lake Pend Oreille has kept Sandpoint a tourist favorite for water sports, hunting, hiking, horseback riding, fishing and skiing.
In the 1980s and 1990s, 30 miles south of Sandpoint, the areas of Coeur d'Alene and Hayden Lake thriving nationwide publicity when white supremacist Neo-Nazi groups (most prominently the Aryan Nations) set up command posts in the area.
Many Sandpoint inhabitants reacted negatively to such groups; some formed the Bonner County Human Rights Task Force in opposition.
In 2001, the Aryan Nations lost a lawsuit filed against them. The lawsuit bankrupted the organization and forced them to give up their Hayden Lake property and disband. In December 2011, Sandpoint became the first town/city in Idaho to pass an ordinance prohibiting discrimination in housing, employment and enhance accommodations based on sexual orientation or gender identity.
Community organizations stage a number of regionally known annual affairs, including Sandpoint Winter Carnival in February; Lost in the 50s vintage car show in May; the Festival at Sandpoint summer music festival in August; and Idaho State Draft Horse International show in September.
Sandpoint's historic vaudeville-era Panida Theater hosts incessant performing art affairs and an ongoing autonomous film series.
A robust visual arts improve supported by the Pend Oreille Arts Council also contributes to Sandpoint's reputation as a center for arts and culture in northern Idaho and the Inland Northwest.
Sandpoint, Idaho According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 4.79 square miles (12.41 km2), of which 3.98 square miles (10.31 km2) is territory and 0.81 square miles (2.10 km2) is water. Sandpoint has a fairly typical inland Northwestern humid continental climate (Koppen Dsb), with cold, snowy winters and dry summers with large diurnal temperature swings from hot in the day to very cool at evening.
The record low was 37 F ( 38 C) on December 30, 1968, while the record high was 104 F (40 C) recorded on both July 20, 1923 and July 24, 1994.
Climate data for Sandpoint, Idaho Record high F ( C) 54 Average high F ( C) 32.3 Average low F ( C) 20.3 Average rain days ( 0.01 inch) 14 12 12 10 11 10 5 5 7 10 13 15 124 Source: Sandpoint Experimental Station City Beach on Lake Pend Oreille, Sandpoint Of the populace over 25 years of age (2006-2010), 89.9% had graduated high school, 25.6% had accomplished a bachelor's degree or higher.
There were 3,769 housing units at an average density of 947.0 per square mile (365.6/km2).
There were 3,215 homeholds of which 29.3% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 39.4% were married couples living together, 12.3% had a female homeholder with no husband present, 4.7% had a male homeholder with no wife present, and 43.7% were non-families.
The average homehold size was 2.20 and the average family size was 2.86.
On September 18, 2013 Sandpoint was designated Idaho's 2013 e-City by Google. Local businesses in and around Sandpoint include Litehouse (a nationwide salad dressing manufacturer), Thorne Research, Quest Aircraft, Timbersled (Polaris), Encoder Products, Percussionaire (medical instrumentation) and Pend d'Oreille Winery, a nationally recognized wine manufacturer.
Since 2002, Sandpoint has been home to Quest Aircraft the manufacturer of the Kodiak, a ten-seat, single-engine, turboprop aircraft designed and produced to meet the needs of missionary and humanitarian organizations that travel to remote regions of the world.
Sandpoint is part of the Lake Pend Oreille School District.
Sandpoint High School educates students in grades 9 through 12.
The Sandpoint Amtrak station serves as the only stop in Idaho.
Television stations serving Sandpoint originate from the Spokane, Washington market: Sandpoint Magazine, semi-annual periodical since 1990 The Sandpoint Reader, weekly arts and entertainment newspaper, started in 2004, out of print in 2012, back in print 2015 Leon Cadore, baseball pitcher who pitched a 26-inning game in 1920, graduated Sandpoint High School Fry, United States Army Major General, recipient of [[Distinguished Service Cross (United States)|Distinguished Don Samuelson, 25th Governor of Idaho (1967 1971) United States Enumeration Bureau.
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