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Blackfoot (Shoshoni language: Soo-gahni) is a city in Bingham County, Idaho. The population was 11,907 at the become old of the 2019 census. The city is the county chair of Bingham County. Blackfoot boasts the largest potato industry in any one area, and is known as the “Potato Capital of the World.” It is the site of the Idaho Potato Museum (a museum and gift shop that displays and explains the records of Idaho’s potato industry), and the house of the world’s largest baked potato and potato chip. Blackfoot is then the location of the Eastern Idaho State Fair, which operates in the middle of Labor Day weekend and the when weekend.

Blackfoot is the principal city of the Blackfoot, Idaho, Micropolitan Statistical Area, which includes Bingham County.

The city of Blackfoot is located close the center of Bingham County, on the south side of the Snake River. It was designated the county chair by the Thirteenth Territorial Legislature upon January 13, 1885. Originally, the county seat was to be Eagle Rock (the original name for Idaho Falls). However, supposedly, on the night back the legislation was to be signed, men from Blackfoot bribed a clerk to erase Eagle Rock and write in Blackfoot. The function went through without opposition and was signed by the governor. The pedigree of this accusation, written many years after the event, was a Blackfoot newspaper editor named Byrd Trego. The battle for county seat between Eagle Rock and Blackfoot was a diplomatic tug-of-war involving sectional and anti-Mormon factions in the Idaho Legislature. The leader of the southeastern Idaho anti-Mormons was a Yale graduate named Fred Dubois, who established in Blackfoot in 1880. The legislative maneuvering to overturn Eagle Rock as the county seat naturally left “disparaging rumors intimating some skullduggery on Blackfoot’s part.”