Arco, Idaho
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Former name[edit | edit source]
Geographic location[edit | edit source]
City Hall[edit | edit source]
Arco City
190 East Grand Avenue
Arco, ID 83213
(208) 527-8975
Resources[edit | edit source]
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Church History and Records[edit | edit source]
Baptist
Baptist Community Church
402 West Grand Avenue
Arco, ID 83213
(208) 527-8533
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints[edit | edit source]
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
2438 3000 West
Arco, ID 83213
(208) 527-8900
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
209 South Water
Arco, ID 83213
(208) 527-8589
Episcopal[edit | edit source]
Epiphany Episcopal
448 Yvonne Street (PO Box 672)
Arco, ID 83213-0672
(208) 527-3579
Presbyterian[edit | edit source]
Arco Orthodox Presbyterian Church
320 North Water Street
Arco ID 83213
(208) 527-3527
Roman Catholic[edit | edit source]
St Ann's Catholic Church
342 Lost River Avenue
Arco, ID 83213
(208) 527-3035
Bible Church[edit | edit source]
Valley Bible Church
320 North Water
Arco, ID 83213
(208) 527-3527
Christian Church[edit | edit source]
Arco Christian Church
143 West Era
Arco, ID 83213
(208) 527-8520
Directories[edit | edit source]
The Idaho State Archives in Boise has a collection of city, county, regional and state directories.
Funeral Homes[edit | edit source]
Anderson Family Funeral Home
2555 North US Hiways 93
Arco, ID 83213
(208) 527-7000
341 Sunset Drive
Arco, ID 83213
(208) 527-7777
Marvel Memorial Chapel
317 Sunset Drive
Arco, ID 83213
(208) 527-8528
History[edit | edit source]
When the town of Arco was formed in 1901 it was known first as Root Hog. Root Hog moved its borders to place the town at the intersection of two stagecoach routes that crossed Idaho. The town leaders applied to the U.S. Post Office for the town name of "Junction" for obvious reasons.(Junction of 26/20/93)
With a name that common and widely used the postmaster suggested that the place be named Arco for Georg von Arco (1869-1940) of Germany who was visiting Washington, D.C. at the time. (This is not a set in stone fact and can be disputed) Georg von Arco was an inventor and a pioneer in the field of radio transmission and would become the lead engineer of Telefunken, a German company founded in 1903 that produced radio vacuum tubes.
Arco was the first community in the world ever to be lit by electricity generated by nuclear power. This occurred on July 17, 1955. On that date electricity generated by EBR-1 was fed over the lines serving Arco, producing approximately 2,000 kilowatts of electrical power for about 1 hour. This was done at the nearby "National Reactor Testing Station" (NRTS), which is now the Idaho National Laboratory. NRTS made further history on January 3, 1961, when the SL-1 reactor melted down, causing three deaths. It was the world's first (and the U.S.' only) fatal reactor accident. 52 nuclear reactors were built in the years following. Several thousand people are employed and this helps support the surounding cities.
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Minorities[edit | edit source]
Newspapers[edit | edit source]
Current[edit | edit source]
Arco Advertiser
1463 Front St.
Arco, ID 83213
Mailing address:
P.O. Box 803
Arco, ID 83213
Ph. 208-527-3038
email - arcoadv@aol.com
Weekly
Historical[edit | edit source]
Copies of issues of newspapers are in the collections of the Idaho State Archives in Boise.
Obituaries[edit | edit source]
School Records[edit | edit source]
Websites[edit | edit source]
USGenWeb, IDGenWeb, ButteIDGenWeb