Geography of Idaho - Important Cities and Towns

Important Cities and Towns

Population > 100,000 (urbanized area)

  • Boise (state capital)

Population > 50,000 (urbanized area)

  • Idaho Falls – Location of the main offices of the Idaho National Laboratory
  • Nampa – Home of Northwest Nazarene University
  • Pocatello – Home of Idaho State University
  • Meridian – Suburb of Boise, Fastest growing city in Idaho

Population > 30,000 (urbanized area)

  • Caldwell – Home of the College of Idaho
  • Coeur d'Alene – Home of North Idaho College, major tourist hub
  • Lewiston – Home of Lewis-Clark State College, Seaport
  • Twin Falls – Home of College of Southern Idaho, BASE jumping

Population > 10,000 (urbanized area)

  • Ammon – Suburb of Idaho Falls
  • Blackfoot – Home of the Idaho Potato Museum
  • Burley
  • Chubbuck, Idaho-Suburb of Pocatello
  • Eagle – Suburb of Boise
  • Garden City – Suburb of Boise
  • Hayden
  • Jerome - Suburb of Twin Falls
  • Kuna – Suburb of Boise
  • Moscow – Home of the University of Idaho
  • Mountain Home – U.S. Air Force Base
  • Post Falls
  • Rexburg – Home of Brigham Young University-Idaho

Smaller Towns and Cities

  • American Falls – first town to be entirely relocated
  • Arco – first city to be lit by electricity generated from a nuclear power plant
  • Bonners Ferry – northernmost major town in Idaho
  • Buhl – "Trout capital of the world"
  • Bone- population 2, but still has gas station
  • Cascade - Lake Cascade and dam
  • Driggs – skiing (Grand Targhee)
  • Eden
  • Emmett
  • Greenleaf
  • Firth
  • Fruitland
  • Filer – suburb of Twin Falls
  • Hazelton
  • Homedale - "Gateway to the Owyhees"
  • Island Park – snowmobiling, world-class fishing
  • Kimberly – suburb of Twin Falls
  • Kellogg – skiing (Silver Mountain Ski Resort)
  • Malad City
  • Mackay
  • McCall – skiing (Brundage Mountain Resort) and Recreation Payette Lake
  • Melba, Idaho - south of Nampa, Idaho
  • Middleton - first city in Idaho
  • Montpelier - bank robbed by the wild bunch
  • Mullan – silver/lead/zinc mining
  • New Meadows - at the 45th parallel north
  • New Plymouth – first planned community in Idaho, third west of the Rocky Mountains
  • Notus
  • Oakley – famous pioneer town, home of many historic buildings
  • Orofino – site of Dworshak Dam, highest straight-axis dam in Western hemisphere
  • Paris – Bear Lake County seat
  • Parma - site of Old Fort Boise
  • Payette – Payette County seat
  • Plummer- CDA tribal headquarters
  • Preston- location of the 2004 film Napoleon Dynamite and the annual International Bed Races
  • Rupert- Minidoka County seat
  • Rigby – television birthplace
  • Salmon – gateway to "River of No Return" (Salmon River)
  • Sandpoint – skiing (Schweitzer Mountain Ski Resort) and recreation Lake Pend Oreille
  • Shelley – home of the Russet potato
  • Soda Springs – U.S.'s only captive geyser
  • St. Anthony – sand dunes and several lava tubes
  • St. Maries – Benewah County seat
  • Stanley, Idaho – heart of the Sawtooth mountains
  • Star, Idaho - suburb of Boise
  • Sun Valley – year-round resort with world-class skiing
  • Wallace – historic district and Shoshone County seat
  • Weiser – Washington County seat, home of the National Oldtime Fiddlers' Contest
  • Wilder - hometown of former governor Phil Batt
  • Worley – casino

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