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ID: 2025740
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/2025740
Record Type:
administrative
Idaho Falls (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 43 28 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 43.4667
decimal degrees
Long: 112 02 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -112.0333
decimal degrees
Note:
Located on Snake river in SE Idaho; originated as railroad divisionary point; later noted for irrigated farming; named for a small waterfall that is now a source of hydropower.
Names:
Idaho Falls
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Eagle Rock
(
H
,
V
)
............
from 1863 to 1890
Hierarchical Position:
World
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North and Central America
(continent) (
P
)
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United States
(nation) (
P
)
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Idaho
(state) (
P
)
................
Bonneville
(county) (
P
)
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Idaho Falls
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
settled as Eagle Rock at Taylor's Ferry in 1863
city (
C
)
county seat (
C
)
agricultural center (
C
)
............
produces potatoes, livestock, wheat & sugar beets
scientific center (
C
)
............
for nuclear power testing
tourist center (
C
)
............
includes Idaho Falls Mormon Temple, a riverbank landmark
Sources and Contributors:
Eagle Rock..........
[
VP
]
.......................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VI, 239
Idaho Falls..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.......................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VI, 239
.......................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS16010958
.......................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
527
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
VI, 239
..................
USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994)
GNIS16010958
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988)
527
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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