As you drive north on State Highway 95, about 20 miles from Weiser, you will come to the top of Midvale Hill. Stop your car, get out, and look at the magnificent, fertile valley spread before you. In any season, the view is fantastic. Gaze upon this gorgeous, open country with its towering views of the Cuddy and Hitt Mountains. This is a friendly village, where the service at the local market, post office, café, tavern, and library includes warmth and welcome.
Midvale village, whose name describes its location as the middle valley of the Weiser River, holds around 115 people within its city limits. The local volunteer fire department proudly hosts the annual Fourth of July Barbecue and Tractor Pull.
At an altitude of about 2500 feet, it enjoys all four seasons. Spring and fall temperatures are generally moderate: lows in the 30s-40s, highs in the 60s-70s. Temperature extremes range from summer highs of over 100 degrees to winter lows in the sub-zero. Annual precipitation is about 20 inches, and snowfall is usually between 6 and 36 inches.
Gardeners enjoy the growing season, which begins with the last spring frost around May 10th, to the first fall frost around September 15th. The Midvale area supports a number of ranches and small farms, whose primary products are cattle, hay, corn, and silage.
Archaeological evidence shows that people have inhabited the area around present-day Midvale for thousands of years. In the early 1960s, a complex of sites thousands of years old was discovered on Midvale Hill, roughly a few miles southwest of Midvale.
The name “Midvale” is a shortened version of its former name, “Middle Valley,” located as it is between the Salubria and Weiser Valleys. The first white settlers, John Reed and his family, arrived in 1868 and built a one-room log cabin on the Weiser River, established a sawmill on Pine Creek, and there raised a family of eight children. Others began to arrive in the 1870s, but in 1881 the town jumped in population when forty travelers from an Oregon-bound wagon train decided to remain in this “middle valley.”
A wooden bridge was built across the Weiser River in 1883, which was used for decades (until a steel bridge was finally erected in 1911)—but spring’s run-off often washed out the land on either side. One story from the mid-1890s tells of a young couple from the east side of the Weiser River who had set a spring wedding date; however, because of the usual high water the bridge was impassable, so the minister simply stood on the opposite shore and conducted the ceremony from there. The Pacific & Idaho Northern railroad tracks reached Midvale in 1899, and during the early decades of the 20th century, sheep ranching was Midvale’s chief business.
Midvale School District currently educates over 100 students in grades K-12 from around the area.
887 people live in Midvale, where the median age is 48.4 and the average individual income is $31,687. Data provided by the U.S. Census Bureau.
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There's plenty to do around Midvale, including shopping, dining, nightlife, parks, and more. Data provided by Walk Score and Yelp.
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Midvale has 330 households, with an average household size of 2.68. Data provided by the U.S. Census Bureau. Here’s what the people living in Midvale do for work — and how long it takes them to get there. Data provided by the U.S. Census Bureau. 887 people call Midvale home. The population density is 2 and the largest age group is Data provided by the U.S. Census Bureau.
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