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Twin Falls is the county seat and largest city of Twin Falls County, Idaho, United States. The city had a population of 51,807 as of the 2020 census. In the Magic Valley region, Twin Falls is the largest city in a 100-mile (160 km) radius, and is the regional commercial center for south-central Idaho and northeastern Nevada. It is the principal city of the Twin Falls metropolitan statistical area, which officially includes the entirety of Twin Falls and Jerome Counties. The connect town resort community of Jackpot, Nevada, 50 mi (80 km) south at the own up line, is unofficially considered allowance of the greater Twin Falls area. Located on a spacious plain at the south rim of the Snake River Canyon, Twin Falls, is where daredevil Evel Knievel attempted to jump across the canyon in 1974 on a steam-powered rocket. The hop site is northeast of central Twin Falls, midway amongst Shoshone Falls and the Perrine Bridge.

Excavations at Wilson Butte Cave close Twin Falls in 1959 revealed evidence of human activity, including arrowheads, that rank along with the oldest old artifacts in North America. Later Native American tribes predominant in the area included the Northern Shoshone and Bannock.

The first people of European ancestry to visit the Twin Falls Place are believed to be members of a help led by American Wilson Price Hunt, who attempted to flare an all-water trail westward from St. Louis, Missouri, to Astoria, Oregon, in 1811 and 1812. Hunt’s expedition met once disaster; much of his expedition was destroyed and one man was killed in rapids upon the Snake River known as Caldron Linn near present-day Murtaugh. Hunt and the long-lasting members of his expedition completed the journey to Astoria by land.