Blaine County, Idaho

The Blaine County Courthouse in Hailey, listed on the NRHP
administration
US state :	Idaho
Administrative headquarters :	Hailey
Address of the administrative headquarters:	County Courthouse 206 1st Ave. South Hailey, ID 83333-8429
Foundation :	March 5, 1895
Made up from:	Alturas District
Area code :	001 208
Demographics
Residents :	21,376  (2010)
Population density :	3.1 inhabitants / km 2
geography
Total area :	6892 km²
Water surface :	42 km²
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Website : www.co.blaine.id.us

The Blaine County is a county in the state of Idaho of the United States . The administrative headquarters are in Hailey .

View of Bald Mountain near Ketchum

Gimlet Bridge

Pettit Lake in the Sawtooth National Recreation Area, in the far north of Blaire County

The center of Bellevue

Meadow landscape near Picabo

geography

Blaine County is just south of the geographic center of Idaho and covers an area of ​​6,892 square kilometers, of which 42 square kilometers are water. It is bordered in a clockwise direction by the following counties: Butte County , Bingham County , Power County , Cassia County , Minidoka County , Lincoln County , Camas County , Elmore County, and Custer County .

Most of the county is in the Basin and Range region, and in the south and east it juts out into the Snake River Plain .

Partly in the field of Blaine County are the National Monument Craters of the Moon , the National Wildlife Refuge Minidoka and the national forests Salmon-Challis and Sawtooth, the latter at the same time as a National Recreation Area is classified.

history

The area of ​​Blaine County was inhabited at the beginning of the 19th century by the later "sheep-eaters" called Tukudeka Indians, who belong to the Shoshone . The first whites whose presence in the remote region is documented were a beaver catching expedition led by Alexander Ross in 1824.

After gold was found in central Idaho in 1860, thousands of gold prospectors came to the Idaho mountains in the winter of 1861/62. In 1870 the first claims for silver and lead ores were staked about 25 miles north of today's Ketchum. The tent city of Galena with up to 800 inhabitants was built there by 1879.

Conflicts arose with the Indians who were eventually accused of killing five Chinese miners in Loon Creek in 1879. Although no evidence could be presented, the result was the "Sheep-eater War", which ended with the forced relocation of 51 Indians to the Fort Hall Reservation . This broke the resistance of the Indians.

In 1879 the town of Bellevue was founded at the entrance to the valley. At the same time, the local trapper David Ketchum staked a claim further north, about halfway between Bellevue and Galena, and founded a settlement there that initially consisted of tents, which were soon replaced by permanent buildings. The nascent city was to be named Leadville in 1880 , because of its central importance for local mining, which was certainly only hoped for at the time. Since this name was not accepted by the postal administration, it was soon renamed Ketchum after its founder.

In the meantime, the Oregon Short Line Railroad had completed its railroad line from Wyoming to Oregon across Idaho. The rapidly increasing volume of goods in the Big Wood River valley moved the company to build a branch line north from its station in Shoshone (now the administrative center of Lincoln County ), which reached Hailey in 1883 and Ketchum in 1884. Since the route ended there, Ketchum actually became the main handling center for the mining industry.

Today's Blaine County was formed on March 5, 1895 from the now defunct Alturas County . It was named after James G. Blaine , a US politician, speaker of the House of Representatives and two-time foreign secretary .

After the boom in mining had already subsided in the 1890s, sheep were now loaded in Ketchum, which grazed in the area in the summer. In the late 1920s, the Ketchum train station was America's largest transhipment point for sheep.

The Sun Valley holiday resort was created in 1936 as a winter sports resort on Bald Mountain and has since been a town in its own right, directly adjacent to Ketchum. Since then, many celebrities have also frequented this place.

21 structures and sites in the county are on the National Register of Historic Places .

politics

Blaine County is considered the stronghold of the Democratic Party in the otherwise heavily republican Idaho. In the 2008 presidential election, for example, two thirds of voters voted for Obama, who only achieved values ​​of 30% in the surrounding counties.

Parish parts

Cities

The four larger cities of Blaine County are connected over a length of approximately 30 kilometers by the Big Wood River and the parallel Idaho State Highway 75. From south to north these are (all population figures according to the 2010 census )

• Bellevue, at the entrance of the valley, with 2,287 inhabitants
• Hailey, named after John Hailey , the administrative seat of Blaine County, with 7,960 residents
• the city of Ketchum , the end of the former railway line, with 6,620 inhabitants
• the neighboring resort of Sun Valley with 1,406 residents

Carey, the smallest of the county's five towns, is located away from the rest of the settlements at the junction of US Highway 93 from Highway 20. It was founded in 1883 by Mormons , who still make up the majority of the approximately 500 inhabitants. To the east of Carey is the Craters of the Moon National Monument .

Unregulated areas

In the unincorporated areas are

• Triumph, southeast of Ketchum, on the site of a silver mine that was closed in 1957,
• Picabo, west of Carey, means "shining water",
• Galena: near the silver mine discovered in 1870, where a town with up to 800 inhabitants stood after 1879, only the Galena Lodge, which is used all year round as a leisure center for many summer and winter sports, is now located.
• Gimlet, between Hailey and Ketchum
• Sawtooth City in the far northwest of Blaine County near Galena
• as well as the two ghost towns of Boulder City and Vienna.

Statistical subdivision

For statistical purposes, the county is divided into three Census County Divisions (CCD) . The approximately 6,500 inhabitants who live outside the city limits are assigned to the closest urban area. This results in a breakdown of the population in

• CCD Hailey / Bellevue: 13,714
• CCD ketchum: 6,620
• CCD Carey: 1,042

Personalities

growth of population
Census	Residents		± in%
1900	4900		-
1910	8387		71.2%
1920	4473		-46.7%
1930	3768		-15.8%
1940	5295		40.5%
1950	5384		1.7%
1960	4598		-14.6%
1970	5749		25%
1980	9841		71.2%
1990	13,552		37.7%
2000	18,991		40.1%
2010	21,376		12.6%
1900–1990 2000 + 2010 Blaine County's age pyramid (as of 2000)

• The American writer Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) died in his home in Ketchum in 1961 and was buried in the local cemetery.
• Steve Miller (* 1943), founder of the Steve Miller Band , lives in Ketchum.
• Ezra Pound (1885–1972), American poet, was born in Hailey.
• the ski racer Picabo Street (* 1971) comes from Triumph. She got her first name after the Picabo settlement in the county.
• Mats Wilander (* 1964), former Swedish tennis player, lives in Hailey.

Demographic data

The census of 2000 years , according lived here 18,991 people in 7,780 households and 4,839 families. The population density was 3 people per square kilometer. The racial the population was composed of 90.73 percent white, 0.13 percent African American, 0.33 percent Native American, 0.73 percent Asian, 0.07 percent of residents from the Pacific island area and 6.43 percent from other ethnic groups Groups; 1.57 percent were descended from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 10.69 percent of the population.

Of the 7,780 households, 31.9 percent had children under the age of 18 in the same household. 51.2 percent of them were married couples living together. 7.2 percent were single mothers and 37.8 percent were non-families. 27.3 percent were single households and 5.5 percent had people 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.40 and the average family size was 2.96 people.

24.0 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 7.7 percent between 18 and 24 years, 32.6 percent between 25 and 44 years, 27.9 percent between 45 and 64 years. 7.8 percent were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 37 years. For every 100 females there were 107.9 males. For every 100 women aged 18 and over there were 106.8 men.

The median household income was 50,496 USD , and the median income for a family 60,037 USD. Males had a median income of $ 35,949 versus $ 27,487 for females. The per capita income was $ 31,346. 4.9 percent of families and 7.8 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.

See also

• List of cities in Idaho

Individual evidence

1. ↑ GNIS-ID: 395696. Retrieved on February 22, 2011 (English). 
2. ↑ ^{a b c d} Ketchum: History www.tripadvisor.com (English)
3. ↑ ^{a b} History of Ketchum ( Memento of the original from February 12, 2013 on WebCite ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Ketchum Sun Valley Historical Society 
4. ↑ Search mask database in the National Register Information System. National Park Service , accessed August 25, 2017.
5. ↑ Extract from Census.gov . Retrieved February 14, 2011
6. ↑ Extract from census.gov (2000 + 2010). Accessed April 2, 2012
7. ↑ Blaine County, Idaho , 2000 census data sheet at factfinder.census.gov .

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Coordinates: 43 ° 23 ′  N , 113 ° 58 ′  W