Butte City

Built around a railroad stop, Butte City developed into a small unincorporated community on Idaho’s high Snake River Plain. It stands just southeast of Arco, near the Big Lost River valley, with the Lost River Range to the northwest and Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve in the wider volcanic country to the northeast. Nearby Experimental Breeder Reactor I, now a National Historic Landmark, generated the first usable electricity from nuclear power in 1951; in 1955, Arco became the first community powered by nuclear energy. Continue with other webcams from the area to see how this part of central Idaho connects regionally.

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