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.
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
Daniel A. Hunt Houselisted 1983
Denton J. Paul Water Tanklisted 1983- S. A. Bate Barn and Chicken Houselisted 1983
- Ignacio Berriochoa Farmlisted 1983
Population over time
2 figuresDietrich 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 332 | |
| 2020 | 284 | -48 (-14%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
3 surveys from 7 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1955 USGS Twin Falls quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Twin Falls quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1971 USGS Dietrich quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
44 since 1992Regional 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 use | 14 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 9 |
| Natural | 7 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 6 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 September 1995 | Natural | 519 acres | Twin Falls District | DIETRICHBT |
| 29 September 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.0 acres | Twin Falls District | BESSLEN1 |
| 29 September 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | 4.0 acres | Twin Falls District | BESSLEN2 |
| 25 September 1999 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 610 acres | Twin Falls District | UPRRMP318 |
| 17 September 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 145 acres | Twin Falls District | CRATER |
| 14 September 1998 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 1.0 acres | Twin Falls District | UPRRMP313S |
| 1 September 2008 | Equipment and vehicle use | 104 acres | Twin Falls District | CRATER BUTTE |
| 3 August 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Twin Falls District | CRATER BUTTE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
10 since 1996Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2000 | Wildfire | Dietrich | $750,000 | Lightning 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 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dietrich | $1,000 | Numerous downed trees in DIetrich area. One tree limb fell onto RV in Dietrich causing 1 thousand dollars worth of damage. |
| May 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dietrich | - | Power outages reported from thunderstorm winds in the Dietrich area. |
| October 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dietrich | - | Media reports power outages in Shoshone and Dietrich. |
| August 2014 | Funnel Cloud | Dietrich | - | The Lincoln County sheriff reported a funnel cloud near Kinzie Butte. |
| August 2014 | Funnel Cloud | Dietrich | - | The Lincoln County sheriff reported a funnel cloud at mile marker 42 on Highway 24. |
| September 2003 | Wildfire | Dietrich | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Heavy Rain | Dietrich | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Heavy Rain | Dietrich | - | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Wildfire | Dietrich | - | no account filed |
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.
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 Dietrich | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1511351 | The 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.


