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.
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
- Fish Creek Damlisted 1978
Population over time
2 figuresCarey 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 604 | |
| 2020 | 685 | +81 (+13%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 9 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 Idaho Falls quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1958 USGS Idaho Falls quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1978 USGS Craters Of The Moon quadrangle1:100000
- 1979 USGS Carey quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
14 since 1992Regional 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 7 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 1994 | Equipment and vehicle use | 20 acres | Twin Falls District | CAREY 1N |
| 5 September 2003 | Natural | under an acre | Twin Falls District | ROADCANYON |
| 8 August 2017 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Twin Falls District | QUEENS CROWN |
| 2 August 1999 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Twin Falls District | HWY20MP191 |
| 16 August 2007 | Natural | 1,849 acres | Twin Falls District | PHILLIPS |
| 10 August 2003 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1,500 acres | Twin Falls District | FOOTHILLS |
| 7 July 2002 | Natural | under an acre | Twin Falls District | QUEENCROWN |
| 6 July 2002 | Natural | 5.0 acres | Twin Falls District | LAKE HILLS |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
6 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blaine County | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Condie Hot Springs | Geothermal | Occurrence | ||
| Pumice Deposit Prospect | Perlite, Pumice | Occurrence | ||
| Pumicite Deposit Prospect | Volcanic Materials | Occurrence | ||
| Pumice Deposit | Pumice | Occurrence | ||
| Pumicite Prospect | Pumice | Occurrence |
Storms near this place
11 since 1996Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2005 | Tornado (F0) | Carey | $110,000 | M & 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 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Carey | $10,000 | Wheel line irrigations systems damaged. |
| May 2005 | Tornado (F0) | Carey | $9,000 | Did damage to two wheel-line irrigation systems and two center pivot irrigation systems. |
| August 2016 | Lightning | Carey | $1,000 | A 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 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Carey | - | Portions of a 2 by 4 storage shed had sheet metal and wood blown across a yard 1 mile east of Carey. |
| May 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Carey | - | 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 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Carey | - | A 58 mph gust measured at Potter Butte. |
| June 2017 | Hail | Carey | - | One inch hail occurred near Carey. |
| July 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Carey | - | A 65 mph wind gust measured 13 miles south of Craters of the Moon. |
| July 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Carey | - | The Cox's Well ARL site measured a thunderstorm wind gust of 67 mph. |
| August 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Carey | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Picabo | 6.5 miles | 7 | |
| Leduc (historical) | 6.6 miles | 7 | |
| Tikura | 7.4 miles | 9 | |
| Gannett | 12.8 miles | 8 | |
| Stanton Crossing | 19.5 miles | 10 | |
| Bellevue | 19.9 miles | 12 | |
| Broadford | 21.0 miles | 12 | |
| Magic City | 22.3 miles | 10 |
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 Carey | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1522624 | 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 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.



