for governor in Idaho City in 1940. Chinese Four thousand Chinese people lived in the Idaho Territory from 1869 to 1875. Like many Chinese immigrants, they came to “Gold Mountain” to work as miners, or found work as laundrymen and cooks. The store of Pon Yam, a prominent Chinese businessman Pon Yam House from 1867 is one of the only remaining buildings from Idaho City's Chinese. Although today Chinese are rarely seen except as tourists, the 1870 census reported at 1,751 Chinese who were nearly half of city residents. Annie Lee was one legendary Idaho city woman who like Polly Bemis, escaped from sexual slavery. She escaped from a member of the Yeong Wo Company in the 1870s to Boise to marry her lover, another Chinese man. Charged by her owner with grand larceny, she told a judge that she wanted to stay in Boise City. The judge subsequently granted her freedom. Geography and climate Idaho City is located at (43.828513, -115.832175), at an elevation of above sea level. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , all of it land. Idaho City experiences a fairly typical Inland Northwest continental Mediterranean climate (Köppen Dsb) with cold, snowy winters and warm, dry summers, typified throughout by large diurnal temperature variations. The town averages 217 nights below per year – as many as Fairbanks, Alaska and 100 more than nearby Boise – 24 days which fail to top freezing, and 14 nights that fall below . Owing to its more exposed location and slightly higher altitude, it is not only noticeably cooler but also much wetter than Boise, receiving twice as much precipitation and almost four times as much snowfall, which averages with a maximum daily snow cover of in January 1982. Demographics 2010 census As of the census of 2010, there were 485 people, 216 households, and 124 families residing in the city. The population density was . There were 294 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the city was 94.2% White, 1.6% Native American, 0.8% Asian, 0.6% from other races, and 2.7% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 4.9% of the population. There were 216 households, of which 28.2% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 43.5% were married couples living together, 9.7% had a female householder with