RUOCCO a Orofino (Id)

RUOCCO presenti ad Orofino:

Aidee , Alphonse, Raphael J

Orofino ("fine gold" [ore] in Spanish) is a city in Clearwater County, Idaho, along Orofino Creek and the north bank of the Clearwater River. The population was 3,142 at the 2010 census, and the city is the county seat of Clearwater County^[4]. Nearby is the historical "Canoe Camp," where the Lewis and Clark expedition built five new dugout canoes and embarked on October 7, 1805, downstream to the Pacific Ocean. Just 4 miles (6.4 km) north of town is theDworshak National Fish Hatchery and the Dworshak Dam, third highest dam in the United States, completed in the early 1970s.

Originally the name was two words, Oro Fino, applied to a gold mining camp established in 1861 two miles (3 km) south of Pierce, that is now a ghost town. When the Nez Perce reservation opened to settlers in 1895,^[5][6][7][8] Clifford Fuller set up a trading post on his new homestead and the town (Orofino-on-the-Clearwater) was established the next year. The railroad, later part of the Camas Prairie Railroad, arrived from Lewiston in 1899.

Orofino is home to both the Idaho Correctional Institution - Orofino and Idaho State Hospital North. These two facilities are located adjacent to Orofino High School, which now includes the junior high grades. The school mascot is a "Maniac," one of only two high schools in the country with that nickname. Orofino hosts the annual Orofino 4 July Celebration, as well as the Clearwater County Fair and Lumberjack Days in late summer. Each spring, the annualBoomershoot is held nearby.

Geography

Orofino is located at 46°29′8″N 116°15′32″W (46.485485, -116.258847).

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 2.47 square miles (6.40 km²), of which, 2.33 square miles (6.03 km²) is land and 0.14 square miles (0.36 km²) is water.

The climate in the area counts among the hottest in the summer and the mildest in the winter throughout the entire state due to its relatively low elevation and - this is primarily true for the moderate winters - its northwestern location, which places it closer to the Pacific Ocean (more exactly, the Puget Sound) than many other parts of Idaho. Accordingly, Idaho's all time highest temperature of 118 °F (48 °C) was recorded at Orofino on July 28, 1934.

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