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Castleford, Idaho

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1959. It stands in the Buhl census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83316. The Survey maps it on the Buhl quadrangle. 215 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,871 feet above sea level.

Castleford within Twin Falls County

On record in Castleford

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

Castleford fell from 226 to 215 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
2010226
2020215-11 (-5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 10 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

12 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Castleford between 1995 and 2020, burning about 764 acres in total. 3 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
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Natural3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Fireworks1

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
1 September 2004Equipment and vehicle use6.0 acresTwin Falls DistrictSOSALMON
5 August 2006Natural87 acresTwin Falls DistrictBALANCED
8 July 1995Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTwin Falls DistrictBALANCEDRK
3 July 2012Fireworks91 acresTwin Falls DistrictBALANCED ROCK
25 July 2002Natural68 acresTwin Falls DistrictB ROCK
22 July 2012Natural9.5 acresIdaho Falls District800 EAST
2 July 2007Power generation/transmission/distribution325 acresTwin Falls DistrictROCK
29 June 2000Power generation/transmission/distribution101 acresBoise DistrictBALANCEDRK

Every fire recorded in Twin Falls County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Castleford: 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: 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
Blue Gulch PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Twin Falls County

Storms near this place

4 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Castleford in 4 storm reports between 1996 and 2014: 2 heavy rain, 1 wildfire, 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
August 2014HailCastleford-Large hail up to 1.75 inches was reported near Twin Falls, Castleford and Buhl.
August 2000WildfireCastleford-A lightning ignited fire, named The Grass Fire, began on the afternoon of the 4th. This fire burned 42,880 acres before it was contained on the 9th. One outbuilding was destroyed and several others were threatened. Damage estimates were not available for this fire.
May 1996Heavy RainCastleford-no account filed
June 1996Heavy RainCastleford-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Twin Falls 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
Fairview4.3 miles10
Deep Creek5.2 miles10
Buhl7.9 miles10
Austin (historical)9.4 miles16
Clover9.6 miles9
Abbey (historical)9.7 miles16
Cedar10.0 miles9
Roseworth11.0 miles8

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 CastlefordAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1511122The 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 371910. 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.