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Bloomington, Idaho

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 2005. It stands in the Paris census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83223. It stands on Dry Creek. The Survey maps it on the Paris quadrangle. 199 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,968 feet above sea level.

Bloomington within Bear Lake County

Population over time

2 figures

Bloomington fell from 206 to 199 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
2010206
2020199-7 (-3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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

7 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Bloomington between 2003 and 2019, burning about 359 acres in total. 2 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/undetermined4
Natural2
Debris and open burning1

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
22 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresIdaho Falls DistrictLITTLEVALL
4 August 2014Naturalunder an acreIdaho Falls DistrictGRANDY HOLLOW
24 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined94 acresIdaho Falls DistrictDINGLE
2 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined211 acresIdaho Falls DistrictWORM CREEK
17 August 2015Natural27 acresBear Lake National Wildlife RefugeREFUGE
26 July 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreBear Lake National Wildlife RefugeTOUR ROUTE
4 October 2019Debris and open burning12 acresBear Lake National Wildlife RefugeCARP

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bear Lake County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Bloomington: 6 occurrences, 4 past producers, 2 unknowns, 1 prospect. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Manganese, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Vanadium, Lead. 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
Clark MineSilver, Lead, Gold, Copper, ZincPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Paris PeakLimestone, GeneralProducer
Paris-BloomingtonPhosphorus-Phosphates, Vanadium, Uranium, Zinc, Thallium, Silver, Selenium, REE, Cadmium, Fluorine-FluoritePast Producer1917
Spence GroupLeadOccurrenceReplacement
Worm Creek ProspectManganese, Lead, SilverUnknown
Bear Lake MinePhosphorus-Phosphates, VanadiumPast Producer
Manganese DepositManganeseOccurrence
McIlwee MinePhosphorus-PhosphatesUnknown
Phosphate DepositPhosphorus-PhosphatesOccurrence

Every working recorded in Bear Lake County

Storms near this place

4 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bloomington in 4 storm reports between 2017 and 2025: 2 hail, 2 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 WindBloomington-A 58 mph wind gust measured at the Paris Peak mesonet site.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindBloomington-Rocky Mountain Power reported over 200 customers without power due to thunderstorm winds.
July 2017HailBloomington-Hail fell in Bear Lake county. One inch hail was measured 1 mile south of Bloomington with Highway 89 covered with hail.
July 2017HailBloomington-One inch hail fell 1 mile south of Bloomington on Highway 89 in Bear Lake County.

Every storm recorded in Bear Lake 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
Paris2.4 miles15
Saint Charles5.4 miles14
Lanark6.4 miles13
Lifton6.6 miles13
Ovid6.7 miles13
Dingle7.3 miles13
Wardboro7.9 miles13
Liberty9.1 miles13

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 BloomingtonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1513388The 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 377877. 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.