Biohazard Cleanup Near North Cascade Cascade, ID

Cascade is a rural city in and the county seat of Valley County, Idaho, in the Long Valley of the North Fork Payette River about 75 miles north of Boise.

The city's population was 1,005 at the 2020 census.

Cascade was founded in 1912, consolidating the communities of Van Wyck, Thunder City, and Crawford, and the town was named for nearby Cascade Falls.

Van Wyck, one of the consolidated communities, was discovered by Levi Kimball in 1888 and was home to the first post office in Valley County, which opened that same year.

Cascade Dam was completed by the Bureau of Reclamation in 1948 on the North Fork Payette River, creating Cascade Reservoir for irrigation and flood control and effectively drowning the falls the reservoir was named for.

The reservoir's backwaters covered some of the best farming and ranch land in the valley and forced the rerouting of Highway 55 over Little Donner.

In 1999 the name Cascade Reservoir was officially changed to Lake Cascade, because local tourism promoters thought it sounded better.

Lake Cascade, at 47 square miles, is the fourth largest lake or reservoir in Idaho, and Lake Cascade State Park has several units around the lake for boaters, anglers, and campers.

Lake Cascade is also where the world record for the largest perch ever caught on a tip-up was set.

Cascade's ZIP code is 83611.