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Welcome to Minidoka County Idaho
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updated with new data November 10, 2007
Established January 28, 1913 with its county seat
at Rupert. Named directly for the first settlement, Minidoka, a
railroad siding. The name is Indian, but the exact meaning is in
dispute. Some believe that Minidoka means "well, spring" but there
was not a source of water such as a well or spring until 1946.
Others say the word is Shoshoni and means "broad expanse," because
the broadest portion of the Snake River Plain lies here. idaho.gov