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Gem County, Idaho : ウィキペディア英語版 | Gem County, Idaho
Gem County is a county in the U.S. state of Idaho. As of the 2010 census, the population was 16,719.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/16/16045.html )〕 The county seat and largest city is Emmett.〔(【引用サイトリンク】accessdate=2011-06-07 )〕 Gem County is part of the Boise, ID Metropolitan Statistical Area. Gem County is home to the Idaho ground squirrel. == History == Named for the state nickname, "Gem State," the county was established on March 15, 1915, partitioned from Canyon County and Boise County. Fur trappers were in the area as early as 1818, and Alexander Ross explored Squaw Creek in 1824. Prospectors and miners moved through the county in 1862 en route to the gold rush in the Boise Basin around Idaho City, and by the next year irrigation began along the Payette River.〔(Idaho.gov - Gem County ) - accessed 2011-12-10〕 The Black Canyon diversion dam on the river was built in the early 1920s, east of Emmett.〔(USBR - Black Canyon div. dam )〕
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