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Dietrich, Idaho

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1971. It stands in the Shoshone census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83324. The Survey maps it on the Dietrich quadrangle. 284 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,088 feet above sea level.

Dietrich within Lincoln County

On record in Dietrich

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 4 records

Population over time

2 figures

Dietrich fell from 332 to 284 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
2010332
2020284-48 (-14%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

3 surveys from 7 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

44 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 44 fires within 5 miles of Dietrich between 1992 and 2020, burning about 11,488 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 6 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
Equipment and vehicle use14
Railroad operations and maintenance9
Natural7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Arson/incendiarism6
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
3 September 1995Natural519 acresTwin Falls DistrictDIETRICHBT
29 September 1999Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresTwin Falls DistrictBESSLEN1
29 September 1999Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresTwin Falls DistrictBESSLEN2
25 September 1999Railroad operations and maintenance610 acresTwin Falls DistrictUPRRMP318
17 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use145 acresTwin Falls DistrictCRATER
14 September 1998Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresTwin Falls DistrictUPRRMP313S
1 September 2008Equipment and vehicle use104 acresTwin Falls DistrictCRATER BUTTE
3 August 2011Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTwin Falls DistrictCRATER BUTTE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lincoln County

Storms near this place

10 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dietrich in 10 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 3 wildfire, 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 heavy rain, 2 funnel cloud. 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 2000WildfireDietrich$750,000Lightning triggered the High Point fire, which quickly burned 20,300 total acres. Several silos and nearly 2000 acres of wheat, barley and pasture were destroyed. Caught and killed in the fast moving conflagration on the pasture were some 200 cattle.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindDietrich$1,000Numerous downed trees in DIetrich area. One tree limb fell onto RV in Dietrich causing 1 thousand dollars worth of damage.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindDietrich-Power outages reported from thunderstorm winds in the Dietrich area.
October 2019Thunderstorm WindDietrich-Media reports power outages in Shoshone and Dietrich.
August 2014Funnel CloudDietrich-The Lincoln County sheriff reported a funnel cloud near Kinzie Butte.
August 2014Funnel CloudDietrich-The Lincoln County sheriff reported a funnel cloud at mile marker 42 on Highway 24.
September 2003WildfireDietrich-no account filed
June 1996Heavy RainDietrich-no account filed
June 1996Heavy RainDietrich-no account filed
July 1996WildfireDietrich-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lincoln 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
Besslen4.9 miles7
Marley7.5 miles8
Shoshone7.7 miles8
Owinza11.1 miles7
Richfield11.2 miles8
Burmah15.2 miles9
Tunupa16.9 miles7
Pagari17.6 miles9

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 DietrichAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1511351The 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 396403. 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.

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.