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Council, Idaho

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 2004. It stands in the Council census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83612. It lies near Grossen Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Council quadrangle. 867 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,927 feet above sea level.

Council within Adams County

On record in Council

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 3 records

Population over time

2 figures

Council grew from 839 to 867 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
2010839
2020867+28 (+3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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

36 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 36 fires within 5 miles of Council between 1994 and 2020, burning about 35,653 acres in total. 21 started naturally. 1 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
Natural21
Equipment and vehicle use5
Recreation and ceremony5
Debris and open burning3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
5 September 2007Naturalunder an acrePayette National Forest2 SNAG
12 September 1998Naturalunder an acrePayette National ForestGROSSEN CANYON
7 August 2010Natural1.7 acresPayette National ForestCOOK HOUSE
4 August 2002Naturalunder an acrePayette National ForestORCHID
3 August 2009Natural26 acresPayette National ForestMILL CREEK 2
22 August 2013Equipment and vehicle use107 acresPayette National ForestMINK
2 August 2014Naturalunder an acrePayette National ForestBALDFACE FIRE
13 August 2001Recreation and ceremonyunder an acrePayette National ForestSHINGLE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Adams County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Council: 3 past producers. None of them 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
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Adams County

Storms near this place

6 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Council in 6 storm reports between 1997 and 2012: 3 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood. 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
June 2010Thunderstorm WindCouncil$50,000Adams County Emergency Manager reported the roof was blown off of a church in Council including roof damage to other homes in the area. Also, many large trees were down along a path into the northeast part of the county.
June 2012HailCouncil-Local media reported 1.00 inch hail in and around Council.
June 2010FloodCouncil-Flooding occurred across portions of Highway 95 and a trained spotter near Glendale reported over 1.30 inches of rain during an 11 hour period and flooding into fields along the Weiser River.
May 1998HailCouncil-A severe thunderstorm produced 3/4 inch hail at Council.
May 1997HailCouncil-A severe thunderstorm formed over the Central Mountains and produced 3/4 inch hail .
September 1998Thunderstorm WindCouncil-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Adams 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
Hoover1.6 miles14
Fruitvale5.9 miles14
Mesa7.0 miles14
Glendale7.4 miles14
Goodrich8.2 miles11
Starkey8.3 miles14
Bacon8.7 miles11
Stevens8.8 miles14

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 CouncilAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1515281The 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 396336. 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.