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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 ...
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]
According to the 2010 Census the counties of the Magic Valley region had a combined population of 185,790, or nearly 12% of Idaho. Twin Falls is the region's largest city and metropolitan area. Burley is the principal city of the region's other micropolitan area. Other cities include Jerome, Rupert, Gooding, Wendell, Bliss, Hagerman and Hailey.
Twin Falls County is a county in the south central part of the U.S. state of Idaho. As of the 2020 census, the population was 90,046, [1] making it the fifth-most populous county in Idaho. The county seat and largest city is Twin Falls. [2] Twin Falls County is part of the Twin Falls, ID Twin Falls Metropolitan Statistical Area.
KMVT is the area's only full-power television station, and the only one airing a full schedule of local news focused on the Magic Valley. Both of the market's low-power ABC and NBC affiliates serve as semi-satellites of Boise stations (KSAW-LD relays KIVI-TV while KTFT-LD repeats KTVB); although both outlets maintain local advertising sales offices next door to each other in Twin Falls, they ...
The two stations share studios on Blue Lakes Boulevard North/US 93 in Twin Falls; KSVT-LD's transmitter is located on Flat Top Butte in unincorporated Jerome County east of Jerome and US 93. In addition to its own digital signal, KSVT-LD is simulcast in standard definition on KMVT's third digital subchannel (11.3) from the same transmitter site.
The county was created by the Idaho Legislature on February 8, 1919, from a partition of Lincoln County. It was named after either Jerome Hill, a developer of the North Side Irrigation Project, his son-in-law Jerome Kuhn, or his grandson Jerome Kuhn, Jr. [3] Jerome County is part of the Twin Falls, ID Micropolitan Statistical Area.
The Twin Falls metropolitan statistical area (MSA), as defined by the United States Census Bureau, [1] is an area consisting of two counties in the Magic Valley region of Idaho, anchored by the city of Twin Falls. As of the 2010 census, the MSA had a population of 99,604. According to 2016 estimates, the population grew 6.93% to 106,508. [2]