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Blowout, Idaho

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

Dam
Palisades Dam
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).