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Carey, Idaho

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Carey census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83320. It stands on Dry Creek. The Survey maps it on the Carey quadrangle. 685 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,783 feet above sea level.

Carey within Blaine County

On record in Carey

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 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Carey grew from 604 to 685 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
2010604
2020685+81 (+13%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 9 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

14 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Carey between 1992 and 2017, burning about 4,560 acres in total. 7 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
Natural7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Debris and open burning2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
7 September 1994Equipment and vehicle use20 acresTwin Falls DistrictCAREY 1N
5 September 2003Naturalunder an acreTwin Falls DistrictROADCANYON
8 August 2017Natural1.0 acresTwin Falls DistrictQUEENS CROWN
2 August 1999Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTwin Falls DistrictHWY20MP191
16 August 2007Natural1,849 acresTwin Falls DistrictPHILLIPS
10 August 2003Power generation/transmission/distribution1,500 acresTwin Falls DistrictFOOTHILLS
7 July 2002Naturalunder an acreTwin Falls DistrictQUEENCROWN
6 July 2002Natural5.0 acresTwin Falls DistrictLAKE HILLS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Blaine County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Carey: 5 occurrences, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Pumice, Volcanic Materials, Perlite, Pumice, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Blaine CountySand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Condie Hot SpringsGeothermalOccurrence
Pumice Deposit ProspectPerlite, PumiceOccurrence
Pumicite Deposit ProspectVolcanic MaterialsOccurrence
Pumice DepositPumiceOccurrence
Pumicite ProspectPumiceOccurrence

Every working recorded in Blaine County

Storms near this place

11 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Carey in 11 storm reports between 1996 and 2020: 7 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 1 lightning, 1 hail. 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
May 2005Tornado (F0)Carey$110,000M & J Auto Body Repair shop had roof lifted off building. Top two rows of cinder blocks blew down and some away from structure. Adamson's Shell Service Station sustained minor roof damage. One trailer at MK Trailers was lifted by tornado and flew through the air across the road some 100 yards. Many homes lost roof shingles. Several metal road signs bent in half. Many large tree limbs twisted off and/or broken. Empty gas tank at the airport blown off stand. Power poles and lines downed.
February 2000Thunderstorm WindCarey$10,000Wheel line irrigations systems damaged.
May 2005Tornado (F0)Carey$9,000Did damage to two wheel-line irrigation systems and two center pivot irrigation systems.
August 2016LightningCarey$1,000A lightning strike on August 18th caused damage at the Carey School in Blaine County. Problems occurred with the operations of the fire systems, the water irrigation system pump and the school district's connection to the heating and cooling systems.|No events found.
May 2020Thunderstorm WindCarey-Portions of a 2 by 4 storage shed had sheet metal and wood blown across a yard 1 mile east of Carey.
May 2020Thunderstorm WindCarey-Three trees along with power lines were downed across Little Wood Reservoir Road just north of Carey. It was very near N Main St or US Highway 20. 700 customers were without power in the towns of Carey, Picabo, and Gannett.
April 2020Thunderstorm WindCarey-A 58 mph gust measured at Potter Butte.
June 2017HailCarey-One inch hail occurred near Carey.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindCarey-A 65 mph wind gust measured 13 miles south of Craters of the Moon.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindCarey-The Cox's Well ARL site measured a thunderstorm wind gust of 67 mph.
August 1996Thunderstorm WindCarey-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Blaine 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
Picabo6.5 miles7
Leduc (historical)6.6 miles7
Tikura7.4 miles9
Gannett12.8 miles8
Stanton Crossing19.5 miles10
Bellevue19.9 miles12
Broadford21.0 miles12
Magic City22.3 miles10

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 CareyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1522624The 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 396234. 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.