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Dayton, Idaho

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Dayton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83232. The Survey maps it on the Weston quadrangle. 510 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,823 feet above sea level.

Dayton within Franklin County

Population over time

2 figures

Dayton grew from 463 to 510 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
2010463
2020510+47 (+10%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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

8 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Dayton between 1994 and 2016, burning about 4,229 acres in total. 6 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
Natural6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
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
5 September 2002Natural9.0 acresIdaho Falls DistrictRATTLESNAK
23 August 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined2,413 acresCaribou-Targhee National ForestCLIFTON
23 August 2000Naturalunder an acreCaribou-Targhee National ForestWESTON #2
20 August 2011Naturalunder an acreCaribou-Targhee National ForestSTANDING ROCK
17 July 2000Natural406 acresIdaho Falls DistrictDAYTON II
17 July 2000Natural501 acresIdaho Falls DistrictDAYTON
16 July 1994Equipment and vehicle use900 acresIdaho Falls DistrictTWIN LAKES
10 July 2012Naturalunder an acreCaribou-Targhee National ForestCLIFTON

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Franklin 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 Dayton: 3 past producers, 3 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Geothermal. 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
Battle Creek Hot SpringGeothermalOccurrence
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Vincent Hot SpringGeothermalOccurrence
Wayland Hot SpringGeothermalOccurrence

Every working recorded in Franklin County

Storms near this place

1 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dayton in 1 storm report in 2009: 1 flash 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 2009Flash FloodDayton-Flooding reported near Weston with roads flooded.

Every storm recorded in Franklin 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
Thorenson2.1 miles13
Silver Star3.0 miles13
Weston5.3 miles13
Clifton5.4 miles11
Winder6.0 miles12
Preston6.3 miles13
Anderson6.7 miles13
Coulam7.9 miles12

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 DaytonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1518104The 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 399846. 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.