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Donnelly, Idaho

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the McCall census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83615. It stands on Lake Fork. The Survey maps it on the Donnelly quadrangle. 249 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,865 feet above sea level.

Donnelly within Valley County

On record in Donnelly

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

Donnelly grew from 152 to 249 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
2010152
2020249+97 (+64%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

88 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 88 fires within 5 miles of Donnelly between 1992 and 2019, burning about 78 acres in total. 30 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
Natural30
Debris and open burning27
Recreation and ceremony7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Smoking6
Equipment and vehicle use5
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Arson/incendiarism2
Other causes1
Fireworks1

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 2014Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsFIRECRACKER
9 September 2012Other causesunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsWAGON WHEEL MCLEOD
7 September 1998Naturalunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsBARKER
6 September 2001Naturalunder an acreBoise National ForestJAVELIN
5 September 2001Naturalunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsBARKER
5 September 2001Naturalunder an acreBoise National ForestRAINBOW
5 September 2001Naturalunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsJAVELIN
4 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsSOUTH NORWOOD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Valley 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 Donnelly: 3 past producers, 1 unknown, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, REE, Zirconium, REE, Titanium, Gold, Garnet, Iron. 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
Gold Fork-Little Valley PlacersZirconium, REE, Titanium, Gold, Garnet, IronProspect1880
West Mountain PlacersREEUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Valley RockSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Valley County

Storms near this place

3 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Donnelly in 3 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 2 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
December 2025Thunderstorm WindDonnelly-A member of the public posted a picture of a 6 inch diameter branch broken, as well as a large 1.5 foot diameter section of the tree snapped. Winds estimated to have been 60 miles per hour based on state and type of tree, at least severe given the size of the large branch that snapped off.
September 1995HailDonnelly-A severe thunderstorm in Donnelly produced large hail and brief heavy rain.
June 2006HailDonnelly-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Valley 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
Roseberry1.5 miles13
MacGregor (historical)2.7 miles13
Spink4.4 miles13
Norwood5.5 miles13
Old Fort7.0 miles13
Lake Fork7.0 miles13
Arling7.5 miles13
Archabal8.3 miles13

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 DonnellyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1512142The 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 396410. 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.