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Caldwell (locally CALL-dwel) is a city in and the county seat of Canyon County, Idaho, United States. [4] The population was 59,996 at the time of the 2020 United States census, making it the 5th most populous city in Idaho. [5] Caldwell is considered part of the Boise metropolitan area. Caldwell is the location of the College of Idaho.
A Sanborn map of the Caldwell Historic District and vicinity in 1911. Caldwell street names evolved from the names assigned in the original plat of 1883, and Kimball Avenue, named for Union Pacific ticket agent Thomas L. Kimball, is the only street in the Caldwell Historic District to keep its original name.
Canyon County is located in the U.S. state of Idaho. As of the 2020 Census, the population was 231,105, [1] which by 2022 was estimated to have risen to 251,065. [2] making it the second-most populous county in Idaho. The county seat is Caldwell, [3] and its largest city is Nampa. Canyon County is part of the Boise metropolitan area.
By the time Idaho was admitted to the Union as the 43rd state in 1890, a further eight counties had been created, bringing the total to 18. After Canyon, Fremont and Bannock Counties had been created, Alturas and Logan Counties were merged to form Blaine County in March 1895; Lincoln County was formed out of Blaine County later the same month.
The historic district is named for Map Rock, [2] a massive basalt rock covered in petroglyphs, named by Robert Limbert in the early 1920s. Limbert believed that the rock depicts a map of the Snake River valley, and some authors have suggested that if it is a map then it may be the oldest map in the world.
Beginning at an elevation of 5,047 feet (1,538 m) [2] south of Arrowrock Reservoir in western Elmore County]], it flows west into Ada County and through the town of Kuna.It then flows northwest into Canyon County, through Nampa, and finally to its mouth in Caldwell, [5] at an elevation of 2,349 feet (716.0 m). [1]
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The North Caldwell Historic District is part of the original townsite. [1] [3] Strahorn's wife, Carrie Adell Strahorn, helped to establish the Presbyterian church in Caldwell in 1890 and the College of Idaho in 1891. Among the six properties in the district inventory are the church building (1890) and parsonage (1897).