Emergency Crime Scene and Biohazard Cleanup in Nampa, ID

Nampa is the most populous city in Canyon County and Idaho's third-most populous city, with 100,200 people in the 2020 census, up from 81,557 in 2010.

It lies about 20 miles west of Boise along Interstate 84 and 6 miles west of Meridian, as the second principal city of the Boise metropolitan area.

The name Nampa likely comes from the Shoshoni word nampai, meaning foot, and the city is nicknamed The Heart of the Treasure Valley.

Nampa began in the early 1880s when the Oregon Short Line Railroad built a line from Granger, Wyoming, to Huntington, Oregon, through the site.

Alexander and Hannah Duffes homesteaded 160 acres in 1885 and, with James McGee and James M. Stewart, formed the Nampa Land and Improvement Company on September 8, 1886.

The town was incorporated on April 17, 1891, and its downtown street grid was deliberately angled to the northwest-southeast railroad tracks to prevent crossing accidents.

Nampa gained brief national attention in 1889 over the purported archaeological find known as the Nampa figurine.

Lake Lowell, the Deer Flat Reservoir built by the Bureau of Reclamation between 1906 and 1911, is surrounded by the Deer Flat National Wildlife Refuge, established in 1909 by President Theodore Roosevelt.

Lakeview Park, Nampa's largest park, was created in 1924 from the former Lake Ethel property, and its municipal swimming pool opened in 1934.

The Snake River Stampede Rodeo grew out of the city's annual harvest festival and has been held since 1937, ranking among the top 12 rodeos in the professional circuits.