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The Treasure Valley is a valley in the western United States, primarily in southwestern Idaho, where the Payette, Boise, Weiser, Malheur, and Owyhee rivers drain into the Snake River. It includes all the lowland areas from Vale in rural eastern Oregon to Boise , and is the most populated area in Idaho.
The Boise, Idaho Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) (commonly known as the Boise Metropolitan Area or the Treasure Valley) is an area that encompasses Ada, Boise, Canyon, Gem, and Owyhee counties in southwestern Idaho, anchored by the cities of Boise and Nampa. [3]
The Oregon Trail (Ada County, Idaho segment) near Boise, Idaho, includes approximately eight miles of the Oregon Trail as it entered the Boise Valley. The segment was added to the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in 1972. At the time of the NRHP nomination, wagon tracks from the Oregon Trail could be identified almost continuously ...
Southwestern Idaho is a geographical term for the area along the U.S. state of Idaho's borders with Oregon and Nevada. It includes the populous areas of the Boise metropolitan area and the Treasure Valley. [1] [2] The counties of Ada, Adams, Boise, Canyon, Elmore, Gem, Owyhee, Payette, Valley, and Washington are included in the region.
New land donation in Boise. This year, members of the five tribes formed a nonprofit, called the Original Boise Valley People LLC. The nonprofit was used on Friday to accept a 40-acre donation ...
US-95 continues into Idaho from southeastern Oregon as an undivided two-lane highway for the majority of its length. As it is the state's primary north–south highway, Idaho is in the process of widening US-95 to an Interstate-style divided four-lane highway, from the Oregon state line in the southwest to Eastport at the northern border with Canada at Kingsgate, British Columbia.
The 1870 Census for Ada County listed 76 residents of the Boise Valley, excluding Boise City and the 1880 Census listed 44 residents at Middleton. [7] [8] The arrival of the railroad at Caldwell led to the establishment of a town there as of August 1883. [9] Businessmen James A. McGee and Alexander Duffes filed the plat for nearby Nampa in 1886 ...
Originally charged with a litany of crimes by Boise and Ada County authorities, Matthew Lehigh, 32, of Oregon, pleaded guilty to two felony charges of violating the Hate Crimes Prevention Act for ...