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The Idaho Falls Idaho Temple, a white multi-tiered Mormon temple with a spire, stands behind trees along the Snake River and a small waterfall in Idaho Falls.
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Idaho Falls

Idaho, United States
Also known as: Eagle Rock
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Idaho Falls, city, seat (1911) of Bonneville county, southeastern Idaho, U.S., on the upper Snake River. Originally the territory of the Shoshone-Bannock and Northern Paiute Indians, it began as the Eagle Rock settlement at Taylor’s Ferry (1863), later Taylor’s Bridge. The town was renamed in 1890 for the low but wide (1,500 feet [460 metres]) cataract in the river (now a source of hydropower), and it developed first as a railroad division point and later...

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