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Acequia, Idaho

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Rupert census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83350. The Survey maps it on the Acequia quadrangle. 131 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,167 feet above sea level.

Acequia within Minidoka County

Population over time

2 figures

Acequia grew from 124 to 131 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010124
2020131+7 (+6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

15 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Acequia between 1996 and 2020, burning about 1,315 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 1 was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Debris and open burning3
Natural3
Other causes2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Arson/incendiarism1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
5 September 2004Arson/incendiarism462 acresIdaho Falls DistrictJACKSON
29 September 2009Debris and open burning23 acresIdaho Falls DistrictISOLATED TRACT
18 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined334 acresIdaho Falls DistrictJACKSON
10 September 1997Natural10 acresTwin Falls DistrictJACKSON
29 August 2009Other causesunder an acreIdaho Falls DistrictSTRAW FIRE
26 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined388 acresIdaho Falls DistrictJACKSON
22 August 1998Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTwin Falls District750EBASELN
17 August 2020Other causes7.5 acresMinidoka National Wildlife RefugeMINIDOKA DAM

Every fire recorded in Minidoka County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Acequia: 5 past producers, 3 unknowns, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Snake River PlacersGoldPast ProducerPlacer
Snake River PlacersGoldPast ProducerPlacer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Jackson PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Minidoka County

Storms near this place

8 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Acequia in 8 storm reports between 2019 and 2025: 8 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
December 2025Thunderstorm WindAcequia$1,000Tree downed in Acequia.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindAcequia$1,000Pine tree uprooted north of Acequia.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindAcequia-Idaho Power reported 1,100 customers without power across Minidoka, Hawley, Acequia, and Rupert.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindAcequia-A private weather station recorded a 67 mph wind gust near intersection of 300 N and N 100 E.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindAcequia-Idaho Power reported over 700 customers without power due to thunderstorm winds near Acequia.
October 2019Thunderstorm WindAcequia-The top half of a large pine tree snapped off just west of highway 24 near Acequia. Numerous other branches broken off nearby trees.
October 2019Thunderstorm WindAcequia-Tree reported by broadcast media in Jackson area. Near Cassia/Minidoka County border.
October 2019Thunderstorm WindAcequia-A private weather station measured a 58 mph wind gust near the intersection of N 100 |E and E 300 N.

Every storm recorded in Minidoka County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Rupert5.4 miles10
Minidoka8.2 miles8
Schow8.3 miles10
Travers8.5 miles10
Amalga9.2 miles10
Myers9.3 miles9
Norland9.6 miles8
Paul10.7 miles9

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on AcequiaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1516981The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 399762. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.