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Eagle is a city in Ada County, ten miles northwest of downtown Boise, with 30,346 people in the 2020 census.

The 2020 census counted 11,096 households and 11,964 housing units in the city, and its median age was 45.8 years.

Eagle Island was settled in 1863 by Truman Coe Catlin, who started the island's dairy tradition and pioneered local irrigation by building a wide irrigation ditch.

Canadian surveyor Thomas Hugh Aiken helped establish the Eagle community in the 1870s, and the city was officially incorporated in 1971.

The city's population grew from 2,620 in 1980 to 11,085 in 2000, 19,908 in 2010, and 30,346 in 2020.

Eagle's motto is Life, Done Right, and the city is known for attracting retired civil servants, especially police officers and firefighters, from California.

The Eagle Fish Hatchery, established in the late 1940s, was restructured in 1991 to support conservation of the endangered Snake River sockeye salmon, and it also houses the Idaho Fish and Game Fish Health Laboratory.

The city's parks include Arboretum Park, Heritage Park, Reid W. Merrill Sr. Community Park, and Stephen C. Guerber Park, and nearby Eagle Island State Park offers a swimming beach, trails, disc golf, and winter sports.

Most of Eagle is in the West Ada School District, with a small portion in the Boise School District.

The 1980 film Bronco Billy was filmed in Eagle, as was the 2008 television show The Baby Borrowers.