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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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
Independent Order of Odd Fellows Halllisted 1997- Rankin Auto Courtlisted 2022
Population over time
2 figuresAshton 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,127 | |
| 2020 | 949 | -178 (-16%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 11 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1955 USGS Ashton quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Ashton quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Ashton quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Ashton quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1989 USGS Ashton quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
3 since 2004Regional 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/undetermined | 2 |
| Natural | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 September 2005 | Natural | under an acre | Idaho Falls District | STRONG |
| 1 September 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Caribou-Targhee National Forest | JUMP |
| 6 August 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 13 acres | Idaho Falls District | FREMONT COUNTY ASSIST 1 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
9 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ashton Warm Springs | Geothermal | Occurrence | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| State Pit Fr 51 S | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
23 since 1996Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ashton | $5,000 | Several trees and large tree limbs reported downed in Ashton. |
| September 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ashton | $2,500 | Thunderstorm winds knocked over a large tree in Ashton onto a pickup truck. |
| August 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ashton | $2,000 | Large tree limbs downed at Ashton Elementary School. Also portions of a wood and sheet metal roof blown off a building in the area. |
| April 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ashton | $2,000 | Multiple downed and damaged power lines were reported from thunderstorm winds 1 mile south of Ashton. |
| July 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ashton | $1,500 | A greenhouse was demolished in Ashton. |
| August 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ashton | $1,000 | Fremont County Dispatch reported a tree down on wires along N 3400 E south of E 1000 N. |
| August 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ashton | $200 | Tin siding was torn off an outbuilding by thunderstorm winds in Ashton. |
| May 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ashton | - | A 58 mph wind gust was recorded 2 miles west of Ashton. |
| June 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ashton | - | A 62 mph wind gust measured near Ashton. |
| July 2021 | Hail | Ashton | - | One inch hail in Ashton. |
| July 2021 | Hail | Ashton | - | One and a half inch hail measured in Ashton. |
| July 2021 | Hail | Ashton | - | One inch hail recorded in Ashton. |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ashton | - | A tree was downed on Highland St near S 3rd St. Highland St was partially blocked. |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ashton | - | Numerous trees were reported down mainly in and around Ashton. |
| May 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ashton | - | Power outage occurred from a thunderstorm extending from Chester north to Ashton. |
| May 2016 | Hail | Ashton | - | Hail of 1.25 inches reported by Emergency Manager in Ashton. |
| January 2009 | Flood | Ashton | - | 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 2007 | Hail | Ashton | - | Large hail and winds caused damage to grain fields in Ashton. |
| August 1997 | Flood | Ashton | - | Very heavy rain and pea-size hail caused some minor stream flooding. |
| June 1997 | Hail | Ashton | - | Hail sizes ranged from one to 1.5 inches. |
| August 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ashton | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Lightning | Ashton | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Hail | Ashton | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lodi (historical) | 1.4 miles | 11 | |
| Marysville | 1.5 miles | 11 | |
| Ora | 4.6 miles | 10 | |
| Grainville | 5.2 miles | 11 | |
| Farnum | 5.4 miles | 9 | |
| Sarilda | 7.2 miles | 10 | |
| Warm River | 7.4 miles | 11 | |
| Drummond | 7.4 miles | 9 |
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 Ashton | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1517041 | The 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.




