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Crouch, Idaho

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1989. It stands in the Garden Valley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83622. It stands on Anderson Creek. The Survey maps it on the Garden Valley quadrangle. 154 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,048 feet above sea level.

Crouch within Boise County

Population over time

2 figures

Crouch fell from 162 to 154 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
2010162
2020154-8 (-5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

131 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 131 fires within 5 miles of Crouch between 1992 and 2020, burning about 15,661 acres in total. 72 started naturally. 2 were 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
Natural72
Debris and open burning13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Recreation and ceremony12
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Smoking5
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Fireworks2
Arson/incendiarism2

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
9 September 2012Naturalunder an acreBoise National ForestSTATION CREEK
9 September 2012Naturalunder an acreBoise National ForestHOMER
9 September 2002Arson/incendiarismunder an acreBoise National ForestTERRACE
8 September 2006Naturalunder an acreBoise National ForestASPEN
7 September 2006Naturalunder an acreBoise National ForestGARDEN MOUNTAIN
6 September 2019Natural4.7 acresBoise National ForestEDDY
6 September 2013Naturalunder an acreBoise National ForestJUG HEAD
6 September 2001Naturalunder an acreBoise National ForestGOOSEBERRY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Boise County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Crouch: 3 occurrences, 1 prospect, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Geothermal, Mercury, REE, Zirconium. 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
Garden Valley Placer AreaREE, ZirconiumProspect
H.G. ClaimsMercuryOccurrenceVein
Rathhoff PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Geothermal LocationGeothermalOccurrence
Geothermal LocationGeothermalOccurrence

Every working recorded in Boise County

Storms near this place

3 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Crouch in 3 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 2 hail, 1 heavy rain. 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 2024HailCrouch-A member of the public reported hail that was 1.25 inches in diameter.
August 2006HailCrouch-Reported at Terrace Lakes Golf Course
May 1996Heavy RainCrouch-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Boise 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
Garden Valley2.0 miles14
Grimes Pass7.7 miles13
Banks8.5 miles16
Big Eddy10.0 miles16
Quartzburg10.7 miles20
Placerville11.9 miles20
Granite12.0 miles20
Pioneerville12.1 miles19

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 CrouchAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1511151The 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 396348. 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.