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

Orofino has a population of 3109. 48.2% of Orofino’s inhabitants are Male, and 51.8 are female. 45% of Orofino is married and 65.3% own their own home. The Average Home price is $164,459, and the average rent is $810. Household median income in Orofino is $39,493, and the individual median income is $27,179. Orofino’s Ethnic is the following: White(94.6%), Hispanic(4.6%), Multiple(2.2%), Native(1.1%), Other(1%), Asian(0.9%), Black(0.2%).


Orofino ("fine gold" [ore] in Spanish) is a city in and the county seat of Clearwater County, Idaho, along Orofino Creek and the north bank of the Clearwater River. It is the major city within the Nez Perce Indian Reservation. The population was 3,142 at the time of the 2010 census. Nearby is the historical "Canoe Camp," where the Lewis and Clark expedition built five new dugout canoes and embarked on October 7, 1805, downstream to the Pacific Ocean.


Some four miles (6 km) north is the Dworshak Dam, third-highest dam in the United States, completed in the early 1970s. Nearby is the Dworshak National Fish Hatchery, started to try to compensate for the loss of migratory fish upstream after the dam was constructed. Originally the name was two words, Oro Fino, applied to a gold mining camp established in 1861 two miles (3 km) south of Pierce; it is now a ghost town.


When the United States government opened up the Nez Percé reservation to non-tribal settlers in 1895, thousands of European Americans rushed to lay claims to land. Clifford Fuller set up a trading post on his new homestead. The town (Orofino-on-the-Clearwater) was established the next year. The railroad, later part of the Camas Prairie Railroad, was constructed from Lewiston in 1899.Orofino is home to state institutions: Idaho State Hospital North and the Idaho Correctional Institution–Orofino.


These two facilities are located adjacent to Orofino High School, which includes the junior high or middle school grades, and whose mascot is the maniac. Orofino hosts an annual July 4 celebration, as well as the Clearwater County Fair and Lumberjack Days in late summer. Each spring, Boomershoot, an annual precision rifle event, is held nearby.


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