territory with the signing of the Oregon Treaty of 1846, but a separate Idaho Territory was not organized until 1863, instead being included for periods in Oregon Territory and Washington Territory.
In the early 1860s, when the U.S.
The county was named after a steamship named Idaho, which was launched on the Columbia River in 1860.
Congress ultimately decided to name the area Colorado Territory instead when it was created in February 1861, but by the time this decision was made, the town of Idaho Springs, Colorado had already been named after Willing's proposal. The same year Congress created Colorado Territory, a county called Idaho County was created in eastern Washington Territory.
territory with the signing of the Oregon Treaty of 1846, but a separate Idaho Territory was not organized until 1863, instead being included for periods in Oregon Territory and Washington Territory.
Regardless, part of Washington Territory, including Idaho County, was used to create Idaho Territory in 1863.
Idaho was eventually admitted to the Union on July 3, 1890, becoming the 43rd state. Forming part of the Pacific Northwest (and the associated Cascadia bioregion), Idaho is divided into several distinct geographic and climatic regions.
A 1956 Idaho history textbook says: "Idaho" is a Shoshoni Indian exclamation.
A legislative error ( ยง264) theoretically placed this region in the Central Time Zone, but this was corrected with a 2007 amendment.
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