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ID: 7007250
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Record Type: administrative |
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Idaho (state) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 45 00 00 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 45.0000 decimal degrees |
| Long: 115 00 00 W degrees minutes |
Long: -115.0000 decimal degrees |
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Note: Inhabited by 8000 BC; Kutenai, Coeur d'Alene, Nez Percé, Paiute, Shoshoni & others were here when influx of settlers from E destroyed buffalo herds in 19th cen.; conflict with Britain over N border 1840s; received Confederate refugees after Civil War. |
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| Idaho (preferred,C,V)
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............ | name is derived from an Amerindian term for the Comanche tribe, name was originally proposed for what is now Colorado |
| ID (C,V,USPS)
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Idaho (state) (P) |
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| state (preferred, B) |
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since July 3, 1890 |
| first level subdivision (C) |
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