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Minidoka is a city in Minidoka County, Idaho, United States. The population was 86 at the 2020 census , [ 3 ] down from 112 in 2010 . It is part of the Burley, Idaho Micropolitan Statistical Area .
Japanese-American internees in Idaho at the Minidoka War Relocation Center. The internment camp site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on July 10, 1979. A national monument was established in 2001 at the site by President Bill Clinton on January 17, as he invoked his authority under the Antiquities Act. [2]
Minidoka National Historic Site (in adjacent Hunt of Jerome County) was part of the original reclamation project and hence shares the name. Minidoka County was created by the Idaho Legislature on January 28, 1913, by a partition of Lincoln County. [4] Camp Rupert, west of Paul, was a prisoner of war (POW) camp during World War II.
Location of Minidoka County in Idaho. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Minidoka County, Idaho. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Minidoka County, Idaho, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many ...
The Minidoka Dam is an earthfill dam in the western United States, on the Snake River in south central Idaho.Completed in 1906, the dam is east of Rupert on county highway 400; it is 86 feet (26 m) high and nearly a mile (1.6 km) in length, with a 2,400-foot (730 m) wide overflow spillway section.
Minidoka National Wildlife Refuge is located on the Snake River Plain in south-central Idaho, 12 miles (19 km) northeast of Rupert. It includes about 80 miles (130 km) of shoreline around Lake Walcott , from Minidoka Dam upstream about 25 miles (40 km).
The Minidoka Project is a series of public works by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation to control the flow of the Snake River in Wyoming and Idaho, supplying irrigation water to farmlands in Idaho. One of the oldest Bureau of Reclamation projects in the United States, the project involves a series of dams and canals intended to store, regulate and ...
Minidoka is a name of Dakota Sioux origin meaning "a fountain or spring of water". It is a name shared by several geographic locations in the Magic Valley region of southern Idaho in the United States: Minidoka, Idaho, a town in Minidoka County; Minidoka County, Idaho; Minidoka Dam, located north of Acequia, Idaho