The name Minidoka is of Dakota Sioux origin meaning " a fountain or spring of water.

" Minidoka was first used in 1883 as a name for the Union Pacific's Oregon Short Line, a railroad spur in the middle of the Snake River Plain.

Minidoka National Historic Site ( in Jerome County ) was part of the original reclamation project and hence shares the name.

The town received its name from Charles H. Paul, an engineer on the Minidoka Reclamation Project.

Minidoka is a name of Dakota Sioux origin meaning " a fountain or spring of water ".

The name " Magic Valley " is a reference to the construction of Milner and Minidoka Dams and a series of irrigation canal systems ( such as the Gooding Milner canal ) on the Snake River during the first decade of the 20th century.

The Minidoka irrigation project shares its name with Minidoka County.

The Minidoka name was applied to the Idaho relocation center in Jerome County to avoid confusion with the Jerome War Relocation Center in Jerome, Arkansas.

The dam was further enlarged in 1916, raising lake waters as part of the Minidoka Project, designed to provide irrigation for agriculture in the state of Idaho.

Minidoka County was created by the Idaho Legislature on January 28, 1913, by a partition of Lincoln County.

Lincoln County itself was partitioned on January 28, 1913, with a western portion becoming Gooding County and an eastern portion becoming Minidoka County.

The Minidoka Relocation Camp, one of ten Japanese American internment camps set up during World War II, was located in Jerome County, six miles north of Eden.

Less than two weeks later, Lincoln County was carved from it and later partitioned into Gooding ( 1913 ), Minidoka ( 1913 ), and Jerome ( 1919 ) counties.

* USS Minidoka ( AK-196 ) was a U. S. Navy Alamosa-class cargo ship during World War II

During World War II, Kubota Garden was abandoned for four years as Kubota and his family were interned at Camp Minidoka in Idaho.

The Minidoka War Relocation Center was in operation from 1942 – 45 and one of ten camps at which Japanese Americans, both citizens and resident aliens, were interned during World War II. Under provisions of President Roosevelt's Executive Order 9066, all persons of Japanese ancestry were excluded from the West Coast of the United States.

Tanaka was born during World War II in the Minidoka concentration camp in Idaho.

* Minidoka Project, an irrigation project

Burley is the principal city of the Burley, ID Micropolitan Statistical Area, which includes Cassia and Minidoka Counties.

Rupert, founded in 1906, sprung up after the announcement of the Minidoka Reclamation Project, which provided irrigation and electricity following the completion of the Minidoka Dam in 1906.

* Minidoka Dam, located north of Acequia, Idaho

Minidoka County is a county located in the U. S. state of Idaho.

The village of Minidoka grew up next to the station.

Minidoka County is part of the Burley Micropolitan Statistical Area.

The rural Yale area in the county's southeastern panhandle is served by schools in neighboring Minidoka County.

Burley is a city in Cassia and Minidoka counties in the southern portion of the U. S. state of Idaho.

Most of the city lies in Cassia County, with only a small portion extending into Minidoka County.

Acequia ( pronounced ah-SEE-kwa ) is a city in Minidoka County, Idaho, United States.

Acequia is served by the Minidoka County Schools system.

Heyburn is a city in Minidoka County, Idaho, United States.

Heyburn is served by the Minidoka County Schools system.

That girl last night, what was her name??

For a blood-chilling ring of terror to the very sound of his name was the tool he needed for the job he'd promised to do.

No man's name brought more cheers when it was announced in a rodeo.

My lovely caller -- Joyce Holland was her name -- had previously done three filmed commercials for zing, and this evening, the fourth, a super production, had been filmed at the home of Louis Thor.

Her name was L'Turu and she told me many things.

Bill Doolin's ambition, it appeared, was to carve out his name with bullets alongside those of Jesse James and Billy the Kid, and Bill Tilghman had sworn he would stop him.

Miss Langford ( her first name was Evelyn ) was an attractive girl.

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But neither was Lilian her baptismal name.

Though she did not then know its name, this strange new fruit was a banana.

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An accompanying sympathetic letter explained that inside the envelope was a name for Mrs. Coolidge's first granddaughter.

The name inside the envelope was `` Cynthia ''.

Her name was Esther Peter.

Pike was stunned by the first blast against his character, which was published in the March 4th issue of The Gazette under the name `` Vale ''.

Under Fosdick the first executive officer of the CTCA was Richard Byrd, whose name in later years was to become synonymous with activities at the polar antipodes.

I had had my name taken out of the telephone book, and this was partly because of a convict who had been discharged from Sing Sing and who called me night after night.