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The Port of Lewiston is Idaho's only seaport, and is the farthest inland port linked to the Pacific Ocean. The Lewiston-Nez Perce County Airport serves the city by air. Lewiston was founded in 1861 in the wake of a gold rush which began the previous year near Pierce, northeast of Lewiston. The city was incorporated by the Washington Territorial ...
The United States Census Bureau estimates that the population of Idaho was 1,654,930 as of July 1, 2015, [1] up from 1,595,728 on July 1, 2012, a 1.8% increase since 2010. [2] The state's largest city and capital is Boise .
The Port of Lewiston was formed in 1958 by the voters of Nez Perce County. In accordance with Idaho Code 70–1101, the Port oversees harbor operations, terminal facilities, international trade, and industrial and economic development. [2] Idaho supports full-time offices in China, Taiwan and Mexico. Trade office representatives are citizens of ...
The Clearwater Timber Company was founded in December 1900 by Frederick Weyerhaeuser and John A. Humbird, who initially logged over 40,000 acres on the Clearwater River in Idaho. [3] Clearwater Timber land holdings grew to over 236,000 acres by 1927 when the company started up a sawmill on the Clearwater River in Lewiston, Idaho. [4]
CCI was founded by Dick Speer (brother of Vernon Speer, who founded Speer Bullets) in the early 1950s. Arvid Nelson was a partner in the business. The firm's first shipment was part of a defense contract to make primers using chlorate FA-70. CCI later moved on to much safer formulas for sporting ammunition.
In 2014, Idaho emerged as the second most small business friendly state, ranking behind Utah, based on a study drawing upon data from over 12,000 small business owners. [8] Idaho has a state gambling lottery which contributed $333.5 million in payments to all Idaho public schools and Idaho higher education from 1990 to 2006. [9] Total ...
Sep. 11—Multiple people are unaccounted for and could be dead after an explosion at a remote gas station 70 some miles east of Lewiston in the community of Cardiff. Two people were airlifted ...
The metro is anchored by the cities of Lewiston, Idaho, and Clarkston, Washington—named after Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, [A] respectively. As of the 2010 census , the MSA had a population of 60,888 (though a July 1, 2011 estimate placed the population at 61,476), [ 1 ] making it the 4th smallest metropolitan area in the United States.