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Ashton, Idaho

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1989. It stands in the Ashton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83420. The Survey maps it on the Ashton quadrangle. 949 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,259 feet above sea level.

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Ashton within Fremont County

On record in Ashton

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Ashton fell from 1,127 to 949 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
20101,127
2020949-178 (-16%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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

3 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Ashton between 2004 and 2017, burning about 15 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None 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/undetermined2
Natural1

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
26 September 2005Naturalunder an acreIdaho Falls DistrictSTRONG
1 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresCaribou-Targhee National ForestJUMP
6 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined13 acresIdaho Falls DistrictFREMONT COUNTY ASSIST 1

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fremont County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Ashton: 8 producers, 1 occurrence. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Geothermal. 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
Ashton Warm SpringsGeothermalOccurrence
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
State Pit Fr 51 SSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Fremont County

Storms near this place

23 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ashton in 23 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 13 thunderstorm wind, 7 hail, 2 flood, 1 lightning. 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
August 2024Thunderstorm WindAshton$5,000Several trees and large tree limbs reported downed in Ashton.
September 2023Thunderstorm WindAshton$2,500Thunderstorm winds knocked over a large tree in Ashton onto a pickup truck.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindAshton$2,000Large tree limbs downed at Ashton Elementary School. Also portions of a wood and sheet metal roof blown off a building in the area.
April 2014Thunderstorm WindAshton$2,000Multiple downed and damaged power lines were reported from thunderstorm winds 1 mile south of Ashton.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindAshton$1,500A greenhouse was demolished in Ashton.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindAshton$1,000Fremont County Dispatch reported a tree down on wires along N 3400 E south of E 1000 N.
August 2017Thunderstorm WindAshton$200Tin siding was torn off an outbuilding by thunderstorm winds in Ashton.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindAshton-A 58 mph wind gust was recorded 2 miles west of Ashton.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindAshton-A 62 mph wind gust measured near Ashton.
July 2021HailAshton-One inch hail in Ashton.
July 2021HailAshton-One and a half inch hail measured in Ashton.
July 2021HailAshton-One inch hail recorded in Ashton.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindAshton-A tree was downed on Highland St near S 3rd St. Highland St was partially blocked.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindAshton-Numerous trees were reported down mainly in and around Ashton.
May 2016Thunderstorm WindAshton-Power outage occurred from a thunderstorm extending from Chester north to Ashton.
May 2016HailAshton-Hail of 1.25 inches reported by Emergency Manager in Ashton.
January 2009FloodAshton-The Arcadia canal overflowed 6 miles west of Ashton and flooded Sadorus Hill Road with 3 feet of water in spots covering 100 yards of the road.
August 2007HailAshton-Large hail and winds caused damage to grain fields in Ashton.
August 1997FloodAshton-Very heavy rain and pea-size hail caused some minor stream flooding.
June 1997HailAshton-Hail sizes ranged from one to 1.5 inches.
August 2004Thunderstorm WindAshton-no account filed
June 1996LightningAshton-no account filed
June 1996HailAshton-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Fremont 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
Lodi (historical)1.4 miles11
Marysville1.5 miles11
Ora4.6 miles10
Grainville5.2 miles11
Farnum5.4 miles9
Sarilda7.2 miles10
Warm River7.4 miles11
Drummond7.4 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 AshtonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1517041The 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 376747. 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.