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Location of Twin Falls County in Idaho. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Twin Falls County, Idaho. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Twin Falls County, Idaho, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided ...
Twin Falls is the county seat and largest city of Twin Falls County, Idaho, United States. [4] The city had a population of 51,807 as of the 2020 census . [ 5 ] In the Magic Valley region, Twin Falls is the largest city in a 100-mile (160 km) radius, and is the regional commercial center for south-central Idaho and northeastern Nevada . [ 6 ]
The falls are upstream (east) of Pillar Falls and Shoshone Falls and just downstream from Milner Dam. Water flows westward over Twin Falls and is controlled by the Twin Falls Dam, built in the 1930s and used for irrigation and hydroelectric power generation. There were originally two parallel falls, but the dam permanently diverted the flow ...
The Twin Falls Original Townsite Residential Historic District in Twin Falls, Idaho is a 264 acres (1.07 km 2) historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001. [1] The district is roughly triangular, and roughly bounded by Blue Lakes Ave., Addison Ave., 2nd Ave. E, and 2nd Ave. W.
The Twin Falls Downtown Historic District is a 20 acres (8.1 ha) historic district in Twin Falls, Idaho which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000. The 20 acres (8.1 ha) district spans 11 blocks of mostly commercial buildings, and included 42 contributing buildings and 33 non-contributing ones.
Now, the flows over the falls can be viewed seasonally based on snowfall, irrigation needs and hydroelectric demands. Irrigation and hydroelectric power stations built on the falls were major contributors to the early economic development of southern Idaho. The City of Twin Falls owns and operates a park overlooking the waterfall.
Snake River Canyon is a canyon formed by the Snake River in the Magic Valley region of southern Idaho, forming part of the boundary between Twin Falls County to the south and Jerome County to the north. The canyon ranges up to 500 feet (150 meters) deep and 0.25 miles (0.40 kilometers) wide, and runs for just over 50 miles. [1]
It is 20 miles (32 km) northeast of Twin Falls and just north west of 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. [2] Its elevation is just under 4,000 feet (1,220 m) above sea level.