Hagerman, Idaho
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Location in Idaho
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| State : | United States | ||
| State : | Idaho | ||
| County : | Gooding County | ||
| Coordinates : | 42 ° 49 ′ N , 114 ° 54 ′ W | ||
| Time zone : | Mountain ( UTC − 7 / −6 ) | ||
| Residents : | 656 (status: 2000) | ||
| Population density : | 728.9 inhabitants per km 2 | ||
| Area : | 0.9 km 2 (approx. 0 mi 2 ) of which 0.9 km 2 (approx. 0 mi 2 ) is land |
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| Height : | 900 m | ||
| Postal code : | 83332 | ||
| Area code : | +1 208 | ||
| FIPS : | 13-34300 | ||
| GNIS ID : | 0372957 | ||
Hagerman is a village in Gooding County in the southwest of the US state Idaho between Twin Falls and Boise . The village has about 570 inhabitants (as of 2000). The Snake River flows through the village .
Hagerman emerged in the 19th century from a stagecoach stop the Overland Trail route of the Oregon Trail . Stanley Hageman and Jack Hess opened a business with an attached post office in 1892 as the founding date . Hagerman is named after one of its founders Stanley Hageman, but due to a typo in the central postal administration with an additional r .
Near the village is the Hagerman Valley of the Snake River, with numerous hot springs and a group of small waterfalls called Thousand Springs . Hagerman and Hagerman Valley are a significant source of fresh trout , which are grown there in aquaculture .
Hagerman is home to the visitor and information center of the Hagerman Fossil Beds National Monument , a site about four million years old fossils . This site became famous above all as the place where the "Hagerman horse" ( Plesippus shoshonensis ) was found, an extinct species of horse , from which around 200 skeletons were recovered. This primeval horse is Idaho's heraldic fossil.
