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Idaho Counties
The State of Idaho (/ˈaɪdəhoʊ/) is a state in the Pacific Northwest region
of the United States of America. The state's largest city and capital is Boise. Residents are called "Idahoans."
Idaho was admitted to the Union on 3 July 1890 as the 43rd state.
Humans may have been present in the Idaho area as long as 14,500 years
ago. Excavations at Wilson Butte Cave near Twin Falls in 1959 revealed evidence of human activity, including
arrowheads, that rank among the oldest dated artifacts in North America. Native American tribes predominant in the
area included the Nez Perce in the north and the Northern and Western Shoshone in the south.
Idaho, as part of the Oregon Country, was claimed by both the United States and Great Britain until the United
States gained undisputed jurisdiction in 1846. Between then and the creation of the Idaho Territory in 1863, parts
of the present-day state were included in the Oregon, Washington, and Dakota Territories. The new territory included
most of present-day Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming. The first organized communities, within the present borders of
Idaho, were established in 1860.[5][6]
After some tribulation as a territory, including the chaotic transfer of the territorial capital from Lewiston to
Boise, disenfranchisement of the large Mormon minority and a federal attempt to split the territory between
Washington Territory and the state of Nevada, Idaho achieved statehood in 1890. The economy of the state, which had
been primarily supported by metal mining, shifted towards agriculture and tourism.
Defunct Idaho counties
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Alturas County: A huge south-central Idaho county formed in 1864.
Abolished in 1895.
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Lah-Toh County: North Idaho county formed in 1864. Abolished in 1867.
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Logan County: Formed by an 1889 partition of Alturas County. Abolished in
1895.
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The history of our nation can be seen as a prolonged struggle to define the relative roles and powers of our governments: federal, state, and local. And the names we've given our counties, our most locally based jurisdictions, reflects the "characteristic
features of our country!"
But age, size and colorful names of our counties isn't the only reason to explore counties' role in American history, or the history of county government itself. In fact, the story of county government reflects the larger meanings of American history.
Today's counties are the most flexible, locally responsive and creative governments in the US. They are the most diverse, varying in size, population, geography, and governmental structure. In their politics and policies, they express a 1990's political slogan "Think globally,
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