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Minidoka County Schools
Minidoka is a name of Dakota Sioux origin meaning "a fountain or spring of water". It is a name shared by several geographic locations in the Magic Valley region of southern Idaho in the United States: * Minidoka, Idaho, a town in Minidoka County * Minidoka County, Idaho * Minidoka Dam, located north of Acequia, Idaho * Minico High School (also known as Minidoka County High School), near Rupert, Idaho * Minidoka National Forest, a former U.S. national forest * Minidoka National Historic Site, an American concentration camp where Japanese Americans were imprisoned during World War II * Minidoka Project, an irrigation project * Minidoka Ranger District, a district of Sawtooth National Forest Sawtooth National Forest is a United States National Forest, National Forest that covers 2,110,408 acres (854,052 ha) in the U.S. states of Idaho (~96 percent) and Utah (~4 percent). Managed by the U.S. Forest Service in the United States Depart ... * ''Minidoka: 937th Earl of One Mile Series M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Magic Valley
The Magic Valley is a region in south-central Idaho constituting Blaine, Camas, Cassia, Gooding, Jerome, Lincoln, Minidoka, and Twin Falls counties. It is particularly associated with the agricultural region in the Snake River Plain located in the area. The northern Magic Valley region — particularly Blaine and Camas Counties — is also known as the Wood River Valley after the Big Wood River. Demographics According to the 2010 Census the counties of the Magic Valley region had a combined population of 185,790, or nearly 12% of Idaho. Twin Falls is the region's largest city and metropolitan area. Burley is the principal city of the region's other micropolitan area. Other cities include Jerome, Rupert, Gooding, Wendell, Bliss, Hagerman and Hailey. History The name "Magic Valley" is a reference to the construction of Milner and Minidoka Dams and a series of irrigation canal systems (such as the Gooding Milner canal) on the Snake River during the first decade of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Minidoka, Idaho
Minidoka is a city in Minidoka County, Idaho, United States. The population was 112 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Burley, Idaho Micropolitan Statistical Area. Today Minidoka is one of Idaho's most strongly Hispanic communities, with over three quarters of the population identifying as Hispanic or Latino. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , all of it land. Demographics 2010 census As of the census of 2010, there were 112 people, 30 households, and 28 families residing in the city. The population density was . There were 43 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the city was 46.4% White, 42.0% from other races, and 11.6% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 76.8% of the population. There were 30 households, of which 50.0% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 83.3% were married couples living together, 3.3% had a female householder with no husband present, 6 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Minidoka County, Idaho
Minidoka County is a county located in the U.S. state of Idaho. As of the 2020 census, the population was 21,613. The county seat and largest city is Rupert. Minidoka County is part of the Burley, ID Micropolitan Statistical Area. The name Minidoka is of Dakota Sioux origin meaning "a fountain or spring of water." Minidoka was first used in 1883 as a name for the Union Pacific's Oregon Short Line, a railroad spur in the middle of the Snake River Plain. The spur later became the site of a watering station along the line. The village of Minidoka grew up next to the station. The Minidoka name was then given to a reclamation project under then President Theodore Roosevelt which included the construction of the Minidoka Dam, completed in 1904. Minidoka National Historic Site (in adjacent Jerome County) was part of the original reclamation project and hence shares the name. Minidoka County was created by the Idaho Legislature on January 28, 1913, by a partition of Lincoln Coun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Minidoka Dam
The Minidoka Dam is an earthfill dam in the western United States, on the Snake River in south central Idaho. Completed in 1906, the dam is east of Rupert on county highway 400; it is high and nearly a mile (1.6 km) in length, with a wide overflow spillway section. Minidoka Dam and power plant were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. Walcott Park, close to the dam, is a popular summertime picnic area. Lake Walcott State Park and the headquarters for the Minidoka National Wildlife Refuge are adjacent to the dam. History The Minidoka dam was the first Reclamation Service project in Idaho, part of the Minidoka Project of dams, reservoirs and canals. Construction began in 1904 and by 1906 most of the dam's canals and laterals were finished. By 1909, Minidoka Dam's power plant, the first federal power plant in the northwest, was completed. By its completion, the total cost of the dam was $5.8 million, which exceeded estimates. The Minidoka project b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Minico High School
Minico High School, also known as Minidoka County High School, is a four-year public secondary school in Minidoka County, Idaho, operated by the Minidoka County Joint School District #331. The school colors are red and gold and the mascot is a Spartan History Minico High School opened in 1955, consolidating four high schools: Rupert, Paul, Heyburn, and Acequia. Towns in the MHS jurisdiction include: Acequia, Burley (Minidoka Co. portion), Heyburn, Minidoka, Paul, and Rupert. The campus is located on State Highway 25 (West 100 South) between the cities of Rupert and Paul, just west of the Rupert Country Club. The name Minico is a contraction of "Minidoka County." The only traditional high school in the county, its jurisdiction includes the entire county, as well as the rural Yale area in the panhandle of southeastern Blaine County and the very northeastern part of Lincoln County, near Kimama. MHS is fed by two middle schools: East Minico in Rupert and West Minico in Pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Minidoka National Forest
Minidoka National Forest was established in Idaho and Utah on July 1, 1908 with from consolidation of Cassia National Forest and Raft River National Forest, primarily in Idaho. On July 1, 1953 Minidoka was absorbed by Sawtooth National Forest and is now the Sawtooth's Minidoka Ranger District. References External linksForest History Society (from the Forest History Society
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Minidoka National Historic Site
Minidoka National Historic Site is a National Historic Site (United States), National Historic Site in the western United States. It commemorates the more than 13,000 Japanese Americans who were imprisoned at the Minidoka War Relocation Center during the World War II, Second World War."Minidoka," Hanako Wakatsuki. ''Densho Encyclopedia'', 10 June 2013. Located in the Magic Valley of Southern Idaho, south central Idaho in Jerome County, Idaho, Jerome County, the site is in the Snake River Plain, a remote high desert area north of the Snake River. It is northeast of Twin Falls, Idaho, Twin Falls and just north of Eden, Idaho, Eden, in an area known as Hunt. The site is administered by the National Park Service of the U.S. Department of the Interior, and was originally established as the Minidoka Internment National Monument in 2001. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Minidoka Project
The Minidoka Project is a series of public works by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation to control the flow of the Snake River in Wyoming and Idaho, supplying irrigation water to farmlands in Idaho. One of the oldest Bureau of Reclamation projects in the United States, the project involves a series of dams and canals intended to store, regulate and distribute the waters of the Snake, with electric power generation as a byproduct. The water irrigates more than a million acres (4,000 km²) of otherwise arid land, producing much of Idaho's potato crop. Other crops include alfalfa, fruit and sugar beets. The primary irrigation district lies between Ashton, Idaho, Ashton in eastern Idaho and Bliss, Idaho, Bliss in the southwestern corner of the state. Five main reservoirs collect water, distributing it through of canals and of lateral distribution ditches. History Early studies for irrigation in southern Idaho began in 1889-90 by the U.S. Geological Survey. The data developed were mad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sawtooth National Forest
Sawtooth National Forest is a United States National Forest, National Forest that covers 2,110,408 acres (854,052 ha) in the U.S. states of Idaho (~96 percent) and Utah (~4 percent). Managed by the U.S. Forest Service in the United States Department of Agriculture, U.S. Department of Agriculture, it was originally named the Sawtooth Forest Reserve Act of 1891, Forest Reserve in a proclamation issued by President of the United States, President Theodore Roosevelt on May 29, 1905. On August 22, 1972 a portion of the forest was designated as the Sawtooth National Recreation Area (SNRA), which includes the Sawtooth Wilderness, Sawtooth, Cecil D. Andrus–White Clouds Wilderness, Cecil D. Andrus–White Clouds, and Hemingway–Boulders Wilderness, Hemingway–Boulders wilderness areas. The forest is managed as four units: the SNRA and the Fairfield, Idaho, Fairfield, Ketchum, Idaho, Ketchum, and Minidoka Ranger Districts. Sawtooth National Forest is named for the Sawtooth Range (Idaho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
