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Capital City: Boise
Location: 43.606N & 116.22W
Admission to Statehood: July 3, 1890
Bird: Mountain Bluebird
Fish: Cutthroat Trout
Border States: Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Utah,
Washington & Wyoming
Highest Point: Borah Peak, 12,662 feet
Lowest Point: Snake River, 710 feet
State Horse: Appaloosa
Motto: Esto perpetua (Let it be perpetual)
Nickname: Gem State
Song: Here We Have Idaho
State Insect: The Monarch Butterfly
Tree: Western White Pine
Flower: The Syringa
Gem Stone: Idaho Star Garnet
Climate:
Maximum temperature 1961 to 1990: 110 F
Minimum temperature 1961 to 1990: -25 F
Mean Annual Precipitation: 12.1 inches
Mean Annual Snowfall: 21.3 inches
Annual average chance of precipitation: 24.6%
Annual average wind speed: 8.0 mph
Annual average percent of available sun: 63.7%
City
Designations:
Arco
- First City Lit by Atomic Energy, July, 1955
Ashton -
First Dog Sled Race in the Lower 48
Boise - Idaho's City of Trees
Blackfoot - Potato Capital of the World
Buhl - Trout Capital of the World
Bruneau - Tallest Free-Standing Sand Dunes in
America
Coeur d'Alene - Idaho's All-American City
Craters of the Moon - Lava Rock Capital
Elk River - Western White Pine Capital
Franklin - Oldest Settlement in Idaho
Hagerman - World's Oldest Horse Fossil
Hells Canyon - America's Deepest Gorge
Kooskia - Elk Capital of the World
Last Chance - Fly Fishing Capital
Lewiston - First
City incorporated in Idaho
Moscow - Pea & Lentil Capital of the World
Riggins & Salmon - Whitewater Capitals of the
World
Salmon River - River of No Return
Sun Valley - America's First Ski Resort
Twin Falls - Evel Kneivel Jump Site of 1974
Wallace &
Kellogg- Largest Silver Mines in the U.S
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