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Driggs, Idaho

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Driggs census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83422. It stands on Spring Creek. The Survey maps it on the Driggs quadrangle. 1,984 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 6,109 feet above sea level.

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Driggs within Teton County

On record in Driggs

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

Driggs grew from 1,660 to 1,984 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
20101,660
20201,984+324 (+20%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

2 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Driggs in 2003, burning about 1 acre in total. None 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
Smoking1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
10 July 2003Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreCaribou-Targhee National ForestRAPID
14 October 2003Smoking1.0 acresCaribou-Targhee National ForestRAPID 2

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Teton 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 Driggs: 5 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Teton County

Storms near this place

21 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Driggs in 21 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 14 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 2 funnel cloud, 1 lightning. 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
July 1999LightningDriggs$21,000Lightning struck a lone tree, killing all 15 head of cattle which had gathered about it.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindDriggs$6,000Idaho Highway 33 was blocked in both directions at milepost 141 due to multiple power lines downed.
August 2022Thunderstorm WindDriggs$6,000Several trees were downed at the Teton County Courthouse in Driggs. One tree took down a light pole.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindDriggs$5,000Numerous large trees snapped off at various heights along Willowbrook Dr.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindDriggs$3,500Seven trees were downed in Valley Centre Dr neighborhood. All were snapped off at roots at or just below ground level. One was 2 feet in diameter and others 1 foot in diameter. One tree blocked Valley Centre Dr at Idaho Highway 33.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindDriggs$3,000Large pine tree estimated at 2 feet in diameter snapped off less than half way up from the ground near the intersection of Ski Hill Rd and Mountain Vista Dr.
May 2016Thunderstorm WindDriggs$3,000A 61 mph wind gust was measured at 4:05 PM 2 miles north of Driggs with 4 power poles downed along 2500 N. Power was out for 6 hours north of the airport.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindDriggs$2,000Small portion of roof peeled off the Wardrobe business along Idaho Highway 33.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindDriggs$2,000Small tree downed on a pickup tree off of Clubmoss Ln.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindDriggs$1,000A large aspen tree was downed near Horseshoe Canyon.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindDriggs$1,000Pine tree uprooted and down on a trailer home.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindDriggs$1,000A large tree 2 feet in diameter down along Ashley Avenue between N 1st St and Idaho Highway 33.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindDriggs$500Tree 1.5 feet in diameter snapped off at base on Goldshire Drive.
September 2024Flash FloodDriggs$200A NWS employee reported significant water running along the shoulders of Idaho 33 in Driggs due to heavy rainfall from thunderstorms. Street flooding in the area of 3rd St and Little Ave.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindDriggs-Fall River Rural Electric reported 26 customers without power in downtown Driggs.
July 2008HailDriggs-Nickel sized hail at Driggs.
September 2000Funnel CloudDriggs-Two funnel clouds spotted.
May 1997Funnel CloudDriggs-Teton County Sheriff reported a funnel cloud about 4 miles southwest of Driggs which extended only a few hundred feet from base of cloud and did not touch the ground. The thunderstorm associated with this funnel also produced pea-size hail.
June 2006HailDriggs-no account filed
August 2003Thunderstorm WindDriggs-no account filed
July 2002HailDriggs-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Teton 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
Darby3.1 miles13
Two Forks3.6 miles13
Twin Forks4.4 miles13
Fox Creek5.0 miles13
Clawson5.2 miles10
Bates5.2 miles13
Cache5.2 miles10
Chapin5.5 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 DriggsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1516586The 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 380758. 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.