Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 566
Land area (2000): 0.689578 sq. miles (1.785998 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.689578 sq. miles (1.785998 sq. km)
FIPS code: 56980
Located within: Idaho (ID), FIPS 16
Location: 43.970689 N, 116.820449 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 83655
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
New Plymouth
Wikipedia
New Plymouth is the major city of the Taranaki Region on the west coast of the North Island of New Zealand. It is named after Plymouth, Devon, England, from where the first English settlers migrated. The New Plymouth District includes New Plymouth City and several smaller towns. The New Plymouth District is the 10th largest district (out of 67) in New Zealand, and has 1.7 percent of New Zealand's population. The district has a population of 74,184 – about two-thirds of the total population of the Taranaki Region. This includes New Plymouth City , Waitara (6,483), Inglewood (3,380), Oakura (1,359), Okato (561) and Urenui (429).
The city itself is a service centre for the region's principal economic activities including intensive pastoral activities (mainly dairy farming) as well as oil, natural gas and petrochemical exploration and production. It is also the region's financial centre as the home of the TSB Bank (formerly the Taranaki Savings Bank), the largest of the remaining non-government New Zealand-owned banks.
Notable features are the botanic gardens (i.e. Pukekura Park), the critically acclaimed Len Lye Centre and Art Gallery, the Coastal Walkway alongside the Tasman Sea, the Len Lye-designed artwork known as the Wind Wand, Paritutu Rock, and views of Mount Taranaki/Egmont.
As described under awards, New Plymouth won multiple awards in 2008. The city was in 2010 chosen as one of two walking & cycling "Model Communities" by the government. Based on New Plymouth's already positive attitude towards cyclists and pedestrians, the city received $3.71m to invest into infrastructure and community programs to boost walking and cycling.
It is also noted for being a coastal city with a mountain within 30 minutes drive, where residents and visitors to New Plymouth can snowboard, ski, water ski and surf all in the same day.
New Plymouth is a New Zealand parliamentary electorate. It was first created for the 1st New Zealand Parliament in 1853 and has existed since, with one 32-year interruption. The electorate was initially called Town of New Plymouth.
The electorate is currently held by Jonathan Young for National, as he defeated Labour's Harry Duynhoven in the 2008 general election.
New Plymouth is a bay bordered by an extensive line of beaches, lying south of Start Point and between Rugged Island and the west end of Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica.
This descriptive name, used by early sealers, dates back to at least 1822 and is now established in international usage.
New Plymouth may refer to the following:
- New Plymouth, a city in New Zealand, named after Plymouth, England
- New Plymouth (New Zealand electorate)
- New Plymouth, Idaho, in the United States
- New Plymouth, Ohio, in the United States
- New Plymouth, Livingston Island, Antarctica
- Plymouth Colony, in New England, the United States
Usage examples of "new plymouth".
They keep further north for Auckland, further south for New Plymouth, and the ship had struck just between these two points, on the desert region of the shores of Ika-na-Mani, a dangerous, difficult coast, and infested by desperate characters.
They changed over to Coffin Ed's new Plymouth and went down the East Side Drive.
When the oil bugs had set to work New Plymouth had been abandoned by all but a few hardy souls.