Place:Mountain Home, Elmore, Idaho, United States

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NameMountain Home
Alt namesTuttvillesource: USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS16015216
TypeCity
Coordinates43.137°N 115.694°W
Located inElmore, Idaho, United States
Contained Places
Cemetery
Mountain View Cemetery
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source: Family History Library Catalog


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Mountain Home is the largest city and county seat of Elmore County, Idaho, United States. The population was 15,979 in the 2020 census. Mountain Home is the principal city of the Mountain Home, Idaho Micropolitan Statistical Area, which includes Elmore County.

Mountain Home was originally a post office at Rattlesnake Station, a stagecoach stop on the Overland Stage Line, about seven miles (11 km) east of the city, on present-day US-20 towards Fairfield. With the addition of the Oregon Short Line Railroad in 1883, the post office was moved downhill and west to the city's present site.

Mountain Home Air Force Base, an Air Combat Command installation, is located southwest of the city. Opened in 1943 during World War II, the base was originally a bomber training base and later an operational Strategic Air Command bomber and missile base (1953–65). It switched to Tactical Air Command and fighters in January 1966, which was succeeded by Air Combat Command in 1992.

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