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The closure of lumber mills in the area in the 1980s and 1990s eliminated many jobs and severely impacted its population. ... Idaho 1991–2020 normals, 1959-2020 ...
Lewiston is a city and the county seat of Nez Perce County, Idaho, United States, in the state's north central region. [3] It is the third-largest city in the northern Idaho region, behind Post Falls and Coeur d'Alene, and the twelfth-largest in the state.
Cobalt, Idaho, owned by the Howe Sound Mining Company (see Holden Village, Washington) Conda, Idaho (Anaconda Copper Mining Co.) Elk River, Idaho; Headquarters, Idaho (Potlatch Lumber Company) Leadore, Idaho; Potlatch, Idaho (Potlatch Lumber Company)
Palouse hills south of the UI Arboretum in Moscow, Idaho. The origin of the name "Palouse" is unclear. One theory is that the name of the Palus tribe (spelled in early accounts variously as Palus, Palloatpallah, Pelusha, etc.) was converted by French-Canadian fur traders to the more familiar French word pelouse, meaning "land with short and thick grass" or "lawn."
A specimen of stibnite. The Stibnite Mining District sits atop the Idaho Batholith, one of the signature features of Idaho’s unique geology.The Idaho Batholith is nearly 14,000 square miles (36,000 km 2) of granite, formed from the collision of the oceanic plate and the North American Plate around 100 million years ago during the Cretaceous period. [10]
Sandpoint, Idaho, on Lake Pend Oreille, with the August 2022 Elmo fire plume in the background According to the United States Census Bureau , the city has a total area of 4.79 square miles (12.41 km 2 ), of which 3.98 square miles (10.31 km 2 ) is land and 0.81 square miles (2.10 km 2 ) is water.
Boise Cascade Corporation was formed in 1957 through the merger of Cascade Lumber Company of Yakima, Washington, and Boise Payette Lumber Company of Boise. Robert Hansberger of Boise Payette became the CEO, and the new corporation focused on ownership and management of timberlands, the growing and harvesting of timber, and the manufacturing and distribution of lumber products and building ...
The Idaho Northern Railroad was built up the Weiser River with the intention of reaching Lewiston and river transportation to the ocean. The dream ended among the lumber mills of central Idaho almost at the community of Meadows... not needing to actually go past the stock loading and lumber ponds outside the village, the terminus station was ...