Blackfoot, Idaho
| Blackfoot, Idaho | |
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Business District of Blackfoot
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 Blackfoot, Idaho
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| Coordinates: 43°11′24″N 112°20′46″W / 43.19000°N 112.34611°WCoordinates: 43°11′24″N 112°20′46″W / 43.19000°N 112.34611°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Idaho |
| County | Bingham |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Paul Loomis |
| Area | |
| • Total | 6.07 sq mi (15.72 km2) |
| • Land | 5.83 sq mi (15.10 km2) |
| • Water | 0.24 sq mi (0.62 km2) |
| Elevation | 4,498 ft (1,371 m) |
| Population (2010) | |
| • Total | 11,899 |
| • Estimate (2012) | 11,852 |
| • Density | 2,041.0/sq mi (788.0/km2) |
| Time zone | Mountain (MST) (UTC-7) |
| • Summer (DST) | MDT (UTC-6) |
| ZIP code | 83221 |
| Area code(s) | 208 |
| FIPS code | 16-07840 |
| GNIS feature ID | 0396141 |
| Website | cityofblackfoot.org |
Blackfoot is a city in Bingham County, Idaho, United States. The population was 11,899 at the 2010 census. The city is the county seat of Bingham County. Blackfoot boasts the largest potato industry in any one area, and is known as the "Potato Capital of the World." It is the site of the Idaho Potato Museum (a museum and gift shop that displays and explains the history of Idaho's potato industry), and the home of the world's largest baked potato and potato chip. Blackfoot is also the location of the Eastern Idaho State Fair, which operates between Labor Day weekend and the following weekend.
Blackfoot is the principal city of the Blackfoot, Idaho, Micropolitan Statistical Area, which includes Bingham County.
The city of Blackfoot is located near the center of Bingham County, on the south side of the Snake River. It was designated the county seat by the Thirteenth Territorial Legislature on January 13, 1885. Originally, the county seat was to be Eagle Rock (the original name for Idaho Falls). However, supposedly, on the night before the legislation was to be signed, men from Blackfoot bribed a clerk to erase Eagle Rock and write in Blackfoot. The measure went through without opposition and was signed by the governor. The origin of this accusation, written many years after the event, was a Blackfoot newspaper editor named Byrd Trego. The battle for county seat between Eagle Rock and Blackfoot was a political tug-of-war involving sectional and anti-Mormon factions in the Idaho Legislature. The leader of the southeastern Idaho anti-Mormons was a Yale graduate named Fred T. Dubois, who settled in Blackfoot in 1880. The legislative maneuvering to overturn Eagle Rock as the county seat naturally left “disparaging rumors intimating some skullduggery on Blackfoot’s part.”
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