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49-552: Pocatello ( / ˈ p oʊ k ə ˈ t ɛ l oʊ / ) is the county seat and largest city of Bannock County , with a small portion on the Fort Hall Indian Reservation in neighboring Power County , containing the city's airport. It is the principal city of the Pocatello metropolitan area , which encompasses all of Bannock County in the southeastern part of the U.S. state of Idaho . As of

98-505: A KALW radio show and podcast , and a founder of the podcast collective Radiotopia , which he describes as efforts "to broaden the radio landscape [and] make shows that aren't bound by conventions" of public radio in the United States. He has also contributed to radio programs Radiolab and Planet Money . Fast Company identified him as one of the hundred most creative people of 2013. Mars, with Elizabeth Joh, also hosts

147-531: A Superior Court and Sheriff (as an officer of the court ), both located in a designated "shire town". Bennington County, Vermont has two shire towns; the court for "North Shire" is in the shire town Manchester , and the Sheriff for the county and court for "South Shire" are in the shire town Bennington. In 2024, Connecticut , which had not defined their counties for anything but statistical, historical and weather warning purposes since 1960, along with ending

196-528: A junior college football Bowl game . Holt Arena also plays host to the Simplot Games, the nation's largest indoor high school track-and-field meet. The Pocatello Marathon and Half Marathon are held annually. Times from the course may be used to qualify for the Boston and New York marathons. Outdoor sports, both winter and summer, play an important role in the culture of Pocatello. Pebble Creek, Idaho

245-410: A county seat may be an independent city surrounded by, but not part of, the county of which it is the administrative center; for example, Fairfax City is both the county seat of Fairfax County, Virginia and completely surrounded by Fairfax County, but the city is politically independent of the county. When the county seat is in the independent city, government offices such as the courthouse may be in

294-667: A county was the magistrate , who oversaw both the day-to-day operations of the county as well as civil and criminal cases. The current number of counties mostly resembled that of the later years of the Qing dynasty . Changes of location and names of counties in Chinese history have been a major field of research in Chinese historical geography, especially from the 1960s to the 1980s. There are 1,355 counties in Mainland China out of

343-508: A method where each person recorded their portions separately and later combined them to create a podcast episode. This new technique was used to create the first episode of Smart Stuff , which started with My Brother, My Brother and Me episode 316 and was completed in 99% Invisible episode 225. 99% Invisible Inc., the company that produces 99% Invisible , was sold to Sirius XM 's Stitcher Radio in April 2021. Mars donated $ 1 million from

392-465: A professor of the subject at University of California, Davis , School of Law . The show later left Radiotopia and is now distributed independently as What Roman Mars Can Learn About Con Law . Mars notably used the Kickstarter crowdfunding platform to support 99% Invisible, raising over $ 170,000, making it the highest-funded journalism project ever, and the second highest-funded project across

441-611: A separate municipality. In the 1960 census, Alameda had a population of 10,660 and Pocatello was at 28,534; the consolidation made Pocatello the state's largest city based on those numbers, passing Boise and Idaho Falls . The Pocatello flag used from 2001 to 2017 was considered by the North American Vexillological Association to be the worst city flag in North America. In April 2016, the city's newly created flag design committee met for

490-581: A total of 2,851 county-level divisions. In Taiwan , the first counties were first established in 1661 by the Kingdom of Tungning . The later ruler Qing empire inherited this type of administrative divisions. With the increase of Han Chinese population in Taiwan, the number of counties also grew by time. By the end of Qing era, there were 11 counties in Taiwan. Protestant missionaries in China first romanized

539-598: Is a section of Middle Township , an incorporated municipality. In some states, often those that were among the original Thirteen Colonies , county seats include or formerly included "Court House" as part of their name, such as Spotsylvania Courthouse, Virginia . Most counties have only one county seat. However, some counties in Alabama , Arkansas , Georgia , Iowa , Kentucky , Massachusetts , Mississippi , Missouri , New Hampshire , New York , and Vermont have two or more county seats, usually located on opposite sides of

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588-790: Is a ski resort located just south of Pocatello and offers skiing and snowboarding. Pocatello is also home to a semi-pro baseball team, the Gate City Grays, who are a member of the Northern Utah League. The Grays play in Halliwell Park located at 1100 W. Alameda. They were NUL champions in both 2015 and 2016. All of the Bannock County portion of Pocatello is served by the Pocatello/Chubbuck School District #25 . The district

637-602: Is home to three public high schools, four public middle schools and thirteen public elementary schools. Additionally, there are two public charter schools, and various alternative and church-based private schools and academies. The portion of Pocatello in Power County is within American Falls Joint School District 381 . Idaho State University (ISU) is a public university operated by the state of Idaho. Originally an auxiliary campus of

686-606: Is land and 0.16 square miles (0.41 km) is water. A main water feature of Pocatello is the Portneuf River, which runs southeast to northwest on the western side of the city. Since 1992, the city and the Portneuf Greenway Foundation have worked to create a system of trails that follow the river and connect to other trails in the greater Portneuf Valley. Currently, 15+ miles of trails have been constructed with 27 planned total miles. According to

735-525: Is named after Chief Pocatello , a 19th-century Northern Shoshone leader. Nathaniel Wyeth of Massachusetts established one of the first permanent settlements at Fort Hall in 1834, which is only a few miles northeast of Pocatello. When over-trapping and a shift in fashion to silk hats put an end to the fur trade, Fort Hall became a supply point for immigrants traveling the Oregon Trail . Although thousands of immigrants passed through Idaho , it

784-552: The 2020 census , the population of Pocatello was 56,320. Pocatello is the 6th most populous city in the state, just behind Caldwell . The city is at an elevation of 4,462 feet (1,360 m) above sea level and it sits on the Portneuf River in the Snake River Plain ecoregion . Pocatello covers a land area of 33.36 square miles (86.4 square kilometers). Pocatello is the home of Idaho State University and

833-641: The Köppen Climate Classification system, Pocatello has a warm-summer humid continental climate , abbreviated "Dfb" on climate maps. The hottest temperature recorded in Pocatello was 104 °F (40 °C) on August 2, 1969, August 8, 1990, July 22, 2000, and July 31, 2020, while the coldest temperature recorded was −33 °F (−36 °C) on February 1, 1985. As of the 2022 American Community Survey estimates, there were 56,582 people and 21,657 households. The population density

882-752: The People's Republic of China . Xian have existed since the Warring States period and were set up nationwide by the Qin dynasty . The number of counties in China proper gradually increased from dynasty to dynasty. As Qin Shi Huang reorganized the counties after his unification, there were about 1,000. Under the Eastern Han dynasty , the number of counties increased to above 1,000. About 1400 existed when

931-542: The Sui dynasty abolished the commandery level (郡 jùn), which was the level just above counties, and demoted some commanderies to counties. In Imperial China, the county was a significant administrative unit because it marked the lowest level of the imperial bureaucratic structure; in other words, it was the lowest level that the government reached. Government below the county level was often undertaken through informal non-bureaucratic means, varying between dynasties. The head of

980-635: The Union Pacific Railroad expanded its service. After its founding in 1889, Pocatello became known as the "Gate City" for being a gateway to Idaho and the Pacific Northwest. As pioneers, gold miners and settlers traveled the Oregon Trail , they passed through the Portneuf Gap south of town. Stage and freight lines and the railroad soon followed, turning the community into a trade center and transportation junction. After

1029-522: The United States , a county is an administrative or political subdivision of a state that consists of a geographic area with specific boundaries and usually some level of governmental authority. The city, town, or populated place that houses county government is known as the seat of its county. Generally, the county legislature, county courthouse, sheriff's department headquarters, hall of records, jail and correctional facility are located in

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1078-632: The University of Idaho and then a state college, it became the second university in the state in 1963. The ISU campus is in Pocatello, with outreach programs in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho Falls, Boise, and Twin Falls. The university's 123,000-square-foot (11,400 m) L.E. and Thelma E. Stephens Performing Arts Center occupies a prominent location overlooking Pocatello and the lower Portneuf River Valley. The center's three venues provide performance space, including

1127-412: The gold rush played out, the settlers who remained turned to agriculture. With the help of irrigation from the nearby Snake River , the region became a large supplier of potatoes, grain and other crops. Residential and commercial development gradually appeared by 1882. The adjacent city of Alameda was consolidated into Pocatello in 1962, Chubbuck , further north, opposed a similar merger and remained

1176-411: The provinces of Ontario , Quebec , New Brunswick , Prince Edward Island , and Nova Scotia have counties as an administrative division of government below the provincial level, and thus county seats. In the provinces of Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia the term "shire town" is used in place of county seat. County seats in China are the administrative centers of the counties in

1225-573: The Assumption , Bethel Baptist Church, A.F.R. Building , Standrod House , John Hood House , Idaho State University Administration Building , Pocatello Carnegie Library , and multiple historic districts . Pocatello is home to Holt Arena , a multipurpose indoor stadium that opened in 1970 on the ISU campus. Known as the "Minidome" until 1988, Holt Arena was the home of the Real Dairy Bowl,

1274-687: The Fort Hall Replica and Museum. Idaho State University's L.E. and Thelma E. Stephens Performing Arts Center is the largest such complex in Pocatello and hosts dance, theater, music, and other entertainment events. The grand concert hall seats up to 1,200 people. The Westside Players is a non-profit community theatre company that hosts shows at The Warehouse in the Warehouse District of Pocatello. There are over twenty National Historic Places in Pocatello including St. Joseph's Catholic Church , Trinity Episcopal Church , Church of

1323-612: The Joseph C. and Cheryl H. Jensen Grand Concert Hall. Idaho State's athletics teams compete in the Big Sky Conference , the football and basketball teams play in Holt Arena . Commercial air service is available via Pocatello Regional Airport . Pocatello Regional Transit provides bus service on five hourly routes, Monday through Saturday. There is currently no evening or Sunday service. County seat In Canada ,

1372-443: The Pocatello, Bannock, and Gateway Station post offices. The Federal Bureau of Investigation is building a data center in Pocatello as part of an initiative to consolidate operations into three enterprise data centers. According to Pocatello's 2021 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report, the top employers in the city are: Pocatello is home to Idaho Museum of Natural History , Museum of Clean , Bannock County Historical Complex, and

1421-432: The county seat is the entire county. Ellicott City , the county seat of Howard County, Maryland , is the largest unincorporated county seat in the United States, followed by Towson , the county seat of Baltimore County, Maryland . Likewise, some county seats may not be incorporated in their own right, but are located within incorporated municipalities. For example, Cape May Court House, New Jersey , though unincorporated,

1470-491: The county seat, though some functions (such as highway maintenance, which usually requires a large garage for vehicles, along with asphalt and salt storage facilities) may also be located or conducted in other parts of the county, especially if it is geographically large. A county seat is usually an incorporated municipality . The exceptions include the county seats of counties that have no incorporated municipalities within their borders, such as Arlington County, Virginia , where

1519-420: The county. Examples include Harrison County, Mississippi , which has both Biloxi and Gulfport as county seats, and Hinds County, Mississippi , which has both Raymond and the state capital of Jackson . The practice of multiple county seat towns dates from the days when travel was difficult. There have been few efforts to eliminate the two-seat arrangement, since a county seat is a source of civic pride for

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1568-634: The first time. Attending the meeting was Roman Mars – whose 2015 TED Talk made Pocatello's flag infamous. On July 20, 2017, after a year and a half of work by the flag committee, the Pocatello City Council approved the adoption of a new flag with the informal name of "Mountains Left" out of a total of 709 designs. According to the United States Census Bureau , the city has a total area of 33.36 square miles (86.40 km), of which 32.22 square miles (83.45 km)

1617-625: The independent city under an agreement, such as in Albemarle , or may in be enclaves of the county surrounded by the independent city, such as in Fairfax . Others, such as Prince William , have the courthouse in an enclave surrounded by the independent city and have the county government, the Board of Supervisors, in a different part of the county, far from the county seat. The following counties have their county seat in an independent city: Bedford

1666-549: The manufacturing facilities of Amy's Kitchen and ON Semiconductor Corporation ; it's served by the Pocatello Regional Airport . Shoshone and Bannock Indigenous tribes inhabited southeastern Idaho for hundreds of years before the Lewis and Clark Expedition across Idaho in 1805. The expedition's reports of the many riches of the region attracted fur trappers and traders to southeastern Idaho. The city

1715-511: The platform's entire publishing category. In November 2013, 99% Invisible ' s season four Kickstarter campaign received 11,693 backers raising over $ 375,000. The original goal of $ 150,000 was raised in 92 hours. Following this success, Mars introduced another campaign to build season two of Radiotopia, a collection of seven storytelling podcasts: 99% Invisible , Fugitive Waves , Love and Radio , Radio Diaries , Strangers , Theory of Everything , and The Truth . Its original goal of $ 250,000

1764-628: The podcast What Roman Mars Can Learn About Con Law . Mars left a PhD program in genetics to undertake an unpaid internship at public radio station KALW in San Francisco. In 2004, he produced a program called Invisible Ink on KALW. Mars and his radio show, 99% Invisible , have been credited in the mainstream press as an innovative form of radio production, defining a new movement of independent radio and podcast creators. In 2016, Mars and Justin McElroy used asynchronous podcasting,

1813-525: The population of the town, followed by German at 14.2%, Irish at 9.8%, American at 6.0%, Scottish at 4.0%, Italian at 3.0%, Danish at 3.0%, Swedish at 2.7%, Norwegian at 2.6%, French at 2.0%, Welsh at 2.0%, Polish at 1.4%, Swiss at 1.3%, Scotch-Irish at 1.2%, and Dutch at 1.0%. Idaho Department of Correction operates the Pocatello Women's Correctional Center (PWCC) in Pocatello. The United States Postal Service operates

1862-400: The population. Of the 21,657 households, 29.3% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 25.1% had seniors 65 years or older living with them, 44.3% were married couples living together, 7.3% were couples cohabitating, 22.7% had a male householder with no partner present, and 25.8% had a female householder with no partner present. The median household size

1911-639: The sale to Radiotopia. In partnership with the Knight Foundation and the Public Radio Exchange (PRX), Mars also created the podcast collective Radiotopia. The Public Radio Exchange has hired Mars to curate a radio program called Remix , which is syndicated by at least 14 public radio stations across the US. In June 2017, Roman Mars began cohosting the constitutional law podcast What Trump Can Teach Us About Con Law with Elizabeth Joh,

1960-777: The state's area, has no borough government or borough seat. One borough, the Lake and Peninsula Borough , has its borough seat located in another borough, namely King Salmon in Bristol Bay Borough . In Louisiana , which is divided into parishes rather than counties, county seats are referred to as "parish seats". In New England , counties have served mainly as dividing lines for the states' judicial systems. Rhode Island has no county level of government and thus no county seats, and Massachusetts has dissolved many but not all of its county governments. In Vermont , Massachusetts , and Maine county government consists only of

2009-580: The term as hien . When Taiwan became a Japanese colony in 1895, the hierarchy of divisions also incorporated into the Japanese system in the period when Taiwan was under Japanese rule. By September 1945, Taiwan was divided into 8 prefectures ( 州 and 廳 ), which remained after the Republic of China took over. There are 13 county seats in Taiwan, which function as county-administered cities , urban townships , or rural townships . In most of

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2058-416: The towns involved, along with providing employment opportunities. There are 33 counties with multiple county seats in 11 states: Alaska is divided into boroughs rather than counties; the county seat in these case is referred to as the "borough seat"; this includes six consolidated city-borough governments (one of which is styled as a "municipality"). The Unorganized Borough, Alaska , which covers 49% of

2107-544: The use of county seats in particular, will fully transition with the permission of the United States Census Bureau to a system of councils of government for the purposes of boundary definition and as county equivalents. Two counties in South Dakota , Oglala Lakota and Todd , have their county seat and government services centered in a neighboring county. Their county-level services are provided by Fall River County and Tripp County , respectively. In Virginia ,

2156-418: Was $ 28,922. Males working full-time jobs had median earnings of $ 52,873 compared to $ 42,456 for females. Out of the 53,680 people with a determined poverty status, 14.4% were below the poverty line . Further, 17.0% of minors and 12.3% of seniors were below the poverty line. In the survey, residents self-identified with various ethnic ancestries. People of English descent made up 20.5% of

2205-469: Was 1,685.4 inhabitants per square mile (650.7/km). There were 23,357 housing units at an average density of 695.7 per square mile (268.6/km). The racial makeup of the city was 86.2% White, 2.4% Asian, 2.3% some other race, 1.5% Native American or Alaskan Native, 1.4% Black or African American, and 0.1% Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander, with 6.0% from two or more races. Hispanics or Latinos of any race were 9.6% of

2254-450: Was 2.48 and the median family size was 3.30. The age distribution was 24.8% under 18, 12.5% from 18 to 24, 29.2% from 25 to 44, 19.9% from 45 to 64, and 13.6% who were 65 or older. The median age was 32.9 years. For every 100 females, there were 102.7 males. The median income for a household was $ 56,115, with family households having a median income of $ 76,299 and non-family households $ 35,964. The per capita income

2303-435: Was an independent city from 1968 to 2013, while also being the county seat of Bedford County . Bedford reverted to an incorporated town, and remains the county seat, though is now part of the county. The state with the most counties is Texas, with 254, and the state with the fewest counties is Delaware, with 3. Roman Mars Roman Mars is an American radio producer. He is the host and producer of 99% Invisible ,

2352-406: Was funded within six days. By the time the campaign closed on November 15, 2014, it had more than doubled its original target, achieving $ 620,412 from 21,808 backers, making it the most-funded Kickstarter project in the publishing and radio and podcast categories. Meeting its 'stretch goals' allowed Radiotopia to add three podcasts hosted by women ( Criminal , The Heart , and The Allusionist ), host

2401-487: Was not until the discovery of gold in 1860 that Idaho attracted settlers in large numbers. The gold rush brought a need for goods and services to many towns, and the Portneuf Valley , home of Pocatello, was the corridor initially used by stage and freight lines. The coming of the railroad provided further development of Idaho's mineral resources and "Pocatello junction" became an important transportation crossroads as

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