Buhl (Idaho)

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Buhl
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Location in Idaho
Basic data
Foundation : 1906
State : United States
State : Idaho
County : Twin Falls County
Coordinates : 42 ° 36 ′  N , 114 ° 46 ′  W Coordinates: 42 ° 36 ′  N , 114 ° 46 ′  W
Time zone : Mountain ( UTC − 7 / −6 )
Residents : 3,985 (as of: 2000)
Postal code : 83316
Area code : +1 208
FIPS : 16-10810
GNIS ID : 0396190

Buhl is a town on the Oregon Trail in western Twin Falls County , Idaho . The 2000 census determined 3985 inhabitants.

history

The oldest traces of human settlement in the region around Buhl were found in the Wilson Butte Cave . With well over 10,000 and up to 15,000 years old, they are among the oldest in North America. The cave was still in use around 1500. The older traces may belong to the Fremont culture , the focus of which was further south, in the states of Utah , Idaho , Colorado and Nevada , and which existed around 700-1300. The residents farmed (corn, beans, squash, nuts, berries, onions), were semi-nomads, and made pottery and baskets. They also left behind small sculptures, petroglyphs and pictographs. It is possible that the finds came from the barter with the southern neighbors.

The oldest human remains come from the Buhl woman named after the place , who lived around 10,700 years ago.

Before the arrival of the white settlers, the region was inhabited by the Northern Shoshone , Northern Paiute and Bannock tribes , the latter possibly representing the northernmost group of the Paiute.

Before 1853, an epidemic of smallpox decimated the Bannock. They were defeated by the US Army. Other Indian groups also had to submit to the resettlement policy and were forced into the Fort Hall reservation .

The place Buhl was founded on April 17, 1906 and named after Frank H. Buhl from Sharon in Pennsylvania . He was the main investor in the Twin Falls South Side project , an irrigation project for the Magic Valley. From 1906 and again from 1947, the state invested in 14 fish farms that made southern Idaho the largest trout producer.

economy

Buhl is known as the “Trout Capital of the World” because most of the fish farms for rainbow trout are located there . Clear Springs Foods , just north of Buhl, and its competitors process more than 76% of America's trout supply. This production started in the late 1940s.

Web links

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Rick Parker: Aquaculture science , 2nd edition, o. O., 2000, p. 14f.