Blowout, Idaho
Students in front of the log school house in Blowout, 1920s. Blowout was named after an earthquake that destroyed the side of a local mountain. The town had its own post office, which Ralph and Lorene Janes ran out of their home, and was also a ranching area.
About this community
- River
- Snake River
- Established
- 1881
- Inundated
- 1957
Sources
- Lynn H. Wiese, Our Turn in Paradise on the South Fork of the Snake River: An Early History of the Area (2019).