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Idaho State Highway 34
State Highway 34 (SH-34) is a state highway serving Franklin and Caribou counties in southeastern Idaho. The highway runs northeasterly along the Bear River from Preston towards Soda Springs and the Wyoming state line, where it terminates and becomes Wyoming Highway 239. The entire highway is designated as the Pioneer Historic Byway, a National Scenic Byway following a historic pioneer route. The designation continues south on U.S. Route 91 through Preston and Franklin towards the Utah state line. Route description State Highway 34 begins north of downtown Preston at an intersection with U.S. Route 91. The highway, temporarily concurrent with State Highway 36, travels north from Preston through the communities of Thatcher and Grace, following the course of the Bear River. North of Grace, State Highway 34 intersects U.S. Route 30 and becomes concurrent with the highway while continuing east into Soda Springs. From Soda Spring, the highway continues north towards the Bla ...
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Idaho Transportation Department
The Idaho Transportation Department (ITD) is the state of Idaho governmental organization responsible for state transportation infrastructure. This includes ongoing operations and maintenance as well as planning for future needs of the state and its citizens. The agency is responsible for overseeing the disbursement of federal, state, and grant funding for transportation programs in the state. Overview Idaho's state transportation system consists of more than (lane miles) of roads, more than 1,800 bridges, approximately of rail lines, 126 public-use airports, and the Port of Lewiston. The agency is also responsible for 29 rest areas and 12 ports of entry. History The Idaho Legislature created the State Highway Commission in 1913. The group consisted of the Secretary of State, the State Engineer and three other members to be appointed by the governor. The Commission was empowered to: *plan, build and maintain new state highways *alter, improve or dis ...
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State Highways In Idaho
The Idaho Transportation Department (ITD) is responsible for the establishment and classification of a state highway network, including of roads that are classified as Interstate Highways, U.S. Highways, and state highways within the state of Idaho in the United States. The current state highway marker consists of a white background, black numbering, and a solid black geographic outline of the state of Idaho. History During the 1920s, in lieu of numbering its highways, Idaho had a system of lettered Sampson Trails.Rand McNally Auto Road Atlas, 1926, accessed via thBroer Map Library/ref> They were marked by businessman Charles B. Sampson of Boise at no expense to the state, using orange-colored shields.Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 8, "a concurrent resolution...to permit Charles B. Sampson to extend the marking system of the Sampson Trail..." passed February 16, 1933 By 1929, the trails system had included of marked highways that covered most of the state. By the mid-1930s, ...
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List Of Highways Numbered 34
The following highways are numbered 34: for a list of roads numbered N34 : see list of N34 roads. International * Asian Highway 34 * European route E34 Australia * Cox Peninsula Road (Northern Territory) * (Sydney) * Maroondah Highway (Victoria) Canada * Alberta Highway 34 (defunct) * Manitoba Highway 34 * Ontario Highway 34 * Saskatchewan Highway 34 Costa Rica * National Route 34 Czech Republic * part of I/34 Highway; Czech: Silnice I/34 India * National Highway 34 (India) Israel *Highway 34 (Israel) Italy * Autostrada A34 Japan * Japan National Route 34 * Nagasaki Expressway * Ōita Expressway Korea, South * National Route 34 New Zealand * New Zealand State Highway 34 Thailand * Highway 34 (Debaratana Road) United Kingdom * British A34 (Winchester-Salford) United States * U.S. Route 34 * Alabama State Route 34 * California State Route 34 ** County Route J34 (California) ** County Route S34 (California) * Connecticut Route 34 * Delaware Route 34 ...
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List Of State Highways In Idaho
The Idaho Transportation Department (ITD) is responsible for the establishment and classification of a state highway network, including of roads that are classified as Interstate Highways, U.S. Highways, and state highways within the state of Idaho in the United States. The current state highway marker consists of a white background, black numbering, and a solid black geographic outline of the state of Idaho. History During the 1920s, in lieu of numbering its highways, Idaho had a system of lettered Sampson Trails.Rand McNally Auto Road Atlas, 1926, accessed via thBroer Map Library/ref> They were marked by businessman Charles B. Sampson of Boise at no expense to the state, using orange-colored shields.Senate Concurrent Resolution No. 8, "a concurrent resolution...to permit Charles B. Sampson to extend the marking system of the Sampson Trail..." passed February 16, 1933 By 1929, the trails system had included of marked highways that covered most of the state. By the mid-1930s, ...
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Logan, Utah
Logan is a city in Cache County, Utah, United States. The 2020 census recorded the population was 52,778. Logan is the county seat of Cache County and the principal city of the Logan metropolitan area, which includes Cache County and Franklin County, Idaho. The Logan metropolitan area contained 125,442 people as of the 2010 census and was declared by Morgan Quitno in 2005 and 2007 to be the safest in the United States in those years. Logan also is the location of the main campus of Utah State University. History The town of Logan was founded in 1859 by settlers sent by Brigham Young to survey for the site of a fort near the banks of the Logan River. They named their new community "Logan" for Ephraim Logan, an early fur trapper in the area. Logan was incorporated on January 17, 1866. Brigham Young College was founded here on August 6, 1877 (and closed in 1926), and Utah State University – then called the Agricultural College of Utah – was founded in 1888. Logan's growth ...
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Caribou Mountains (Idaho)
Caribou Mountains are a mountain range in the Rocky Mountains in Idaho, United States. The mountains are in the Caribou National Forest in Bonneville and Caribou counties, near the Wyoming border. Named for Cariboo Fairchild, a prospector who had taken part in the gold rush in the Cariboo region of British Columbia in 1860. Fairchild discovered gold Gold is a chemical element with the symbol Au (from la, aurum) and atomic number 79. This makes it one of the higher atomic number elements that occur naturally. It is a bright, slightly orange-yellow, dense, soft, malleable, and ductile met ... in this area of present-day eastern Idaho two years later.Idaho.gov - Caribou County
accessed 2009-05-29 The highest point of the range is 9,803-foot
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Grays Lake National Wildlife Refuge
Grays Lake National Wildlife Refuge is a National Wildlife Refuge of the United States located in southeastern Idaho. It has the largest hardstem bulrush marsh in North America. Located in a high mountain valley near Soda Springs, the refuge and surrounding mountains offer scenic vistas, wildflowers, and fall foliage displays. Lands adjacent to the refuge are primarily wet meadows and grasslands. The refuge provides breeding habitat for species of mammals including moose, elk, mule deer, muskrat, badger, and weasel. Geography The refuge has a surface area of 20,125.08 acres (81.44 km2 or 8,144 ha). Bird habitat The refuge hosts a large nesting population of greater sandhill cranes; as many as 1200 individuals are counted in the valley during migration and staging times. The refuge is a birding destination, and a good area to view the rare trumpeter swans. This near-pristine montane wetland is being threatened by the same type of suburban/rural development that has so heavi ...
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Blackfoot Reservoir
Blackfoot Dam () is a dam in Caribou County, Idaho, in the eastern part of the state. The earthen dam was completed in 1911 by the United States Bureau of Indian Affairs, with a height of and long at its crest. It impounds the Blackfoot River of Idaho for flood control and irrigation water storage primarily for the Fort Hall Indian Reservation The Fort Hall Reservation is a Native American reservation of the federally recognized Shoshone- Bannock Tribes (Shoshoni language: Pohoko’ikkateeCrum, B., Crum, E., & Dayley, J. P. (2001). Newe Hupia: Shoshoni Poetry Songs. University Press .... The dam is owned and operated by the Bureau. Its construction came eight years before the 1919 formation of Caribou County. The reservoir it creates, Blackfoot Reservoir, has a water surface of , and a maximum capacity of . Blackfoot Dam impounds the river at the northwestern end of the reservoir; the China Hat Dam towards the southwest of the reservoir was constructed in 1923 to resolve se ...
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Grace, Idaho
Grace is a city in Caribou County, Idaho, Caribou County, Idaho, United States. The population was 915 at the 2010 United States Census, 2010 census. History The area of Grace was once inhabited by the Shoshone Indians. The Oregon Trail passed within of Grace and the town itself was established with a post office in 1894. Unlike other nearby historic towns such as Paris, Idaho, Paris and Franklin, Idaho, Franklin, Grace was not originally settled by Mormon pioneers, but has since become a predominantly The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Mormon-populated town. The economy in and around Grace has traditionally been driven by agriculture, with potatoes, alfalfa, grain, dairy and ranching being the main staples. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , all of it land. Grace is one of the northernmost cities along the Wasatch Range which extends approximately south, and is only west of the large fault (geology), fault l ...
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Thatcher, Idaho
Thatcher is an unincorporated community in Franklin County, Idaho, United States. Its elevation is 4,902 feet (1,494 m), and it is located at (42.4088106, -111.7268930). Although Thatcher is unincorporated, it has a post office A post office is a public facility and a retailer that provides mail services, such as accepting letters and parcels, providing post office boxes, and selling postage stamps, packaging, and stationery. Post offices may offer additional serv ..., with the ZIP code of 83283; the ZCTA for ZIP Code 83283 had a population of 123 at the 2000 census. References External links Unincorporated communities in Franklin County, Idaho Unincorporated communities in Idaho {{FranklinCountyID-geo-stub ...
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Idaho State Highway 36
State Highway 36 (SH-36) is a east-west state highway located in the southeast part of the U.S. state of Idaho. SH-36 runs from Interstate 15 (I-15) near Malad City to U.S. Route 89 (US-89) near Montpelier. The highway is maintained by the Idaho Transportation Department. Route description SH-36 begins at a diamond interchange with I-15. As Deep Creek Road, the highway travels east before turning southeast, passing through the forest and just west of Old Baldy Peak before entering the town of Weston. There, SH-36 turns north, entering Dayton before turning east. Crossing the Bear River, the highway continues into the city of Preston, running concurrently with US-91 due north along State Street before turning northeast along a roadway with SH-34. After crossing the Bear River again, SH-36 continues northeast, passing through the community of Mink Creek before passing through fields and forests. SH-36 passes through Liberty before ending in the town of Ovid just west of ...
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