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Welcome to the Arco Home page. The Arco Home page provides as much information as possible on Arco. Knowing Arco’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Arco’s Home page, you will also find Arco’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.

Arco has a population of 758. 40.6% of Arco’s inhabitants are Male, and 59.4 are female. 54.1% of Arco is married and 67.4% own their own home. The Average Home price is $85,120, and the average rent is $567. Household median income in Arco is $21,667, and the individual median income is $16,926. Arco’s Ethnic is the following: White(100%), Hispanic(2.8%).


Originally known as Root Hog, the original town site was five miles (8 km) south at the junction of two stagecoach lines (Blackfoot-Wood River and Blackfoot-Salmon). A suspension bridge that crossed the Big Lost River funneled traffic through the settlement. The town leaders applied to the U.S. Post Office for the town name of "Junction". The Postmaster General thought the name too common and suggested that the place be named Arco for Georg von Arco (1869–1940) of Germany who was visiting Washington, D.C., at the time.


Georg von Arco was an inventor and a pioneer in the field of radio transmission and would become the lead engineer of Telefunken, a German company founded in 1903 that produced radio vacuum tubes. The town later moved four miles southeast when the stage station was moved to Webb Springs at Big Southern Butte.


When the Oregon Short Line Railroad arrived from Blackfoot in 1901 the stage lines became obsolete and the town of Arco moved northwest to its present site.Arco was the first community in the world ever to be lit by electricity generated solely by nuclear power. This occurred for about an hour on July 17, 1955, powered by Argonne National Laboratory’s BORAX-III reactor at the nearby National Reactor Testing Station (NRTS), now the Idaho National Laboratory.


NRTS made further history on January 3, 1961, when the SL-1 reactor was destroyed through an operator maintenance error, with the ensuing steam explosion causing the deaths of all three personnel present. It was the world's first and the United States' only fatal reactor accident.


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