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.
Research this city
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
Pierre's Hole 1832 Battle Area Sitelisted 1984
Spud Drive-In Theaterlisted 2003
Teton County Courthouselisted 1987
Population over time
2 figuresDriggs 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,660 | |
| 2020 | 1,984 | +324 (+20%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 13 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.
- 1943 USGS Driggs quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1946 USGS Driggs quadrangle1:62500
- 1955 USGS Driggs quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Driggs quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Driggs quadrangle1:250000
- 1978 USGS Driggs quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1988 USGS Rexburg quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
2 since 2003Regional 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 |
|---|---|
| Smoking | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 July 2003 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Caribou-Targhee National Forest | RAPID |
| 14 October 2003 | Smoking | 1.0 acres | Caribou-Targhee National Forest | RAPID 2 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
5 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
21 since 1997Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 1999 | Lightning | Driggs | $21,000 | Lightning struck a lone tree, killing all 15 head of cattle which had gathered about it. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Driggs | $6,000 | Idaho Highway 33 was blocked in both directions at milepost 141 due to multiple power lines downed. |
| August 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Driggs | $6,000 | Several trees were downed at the Teton County Courthouse in Driggs. One tree took down a light pole. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Driggs | $5,000 | Numerous large trees snapped off at various heights along Willowbrook Dr. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Driggs | $3,500 | Seven 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 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Driggs | $3,000 | Large 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 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Driggs | $3,000 | A 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 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Driggs | $2,000 | Small portion of roof peeled off the Wardrobe business along Idaho Highway 33. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Driggs | $2,000 | Small tree downed on a pickup tree off of Clubmoss Ln. |
| August 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Driggs | $1,000 | A large aspen tree was downed near Horseshoe Canyon. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Driggs | $1,000 | Pine tree uprooted and down on a trailer home. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Driggs | $1,000 | A large tree 2 feet in diameter down along Ashley Avenue between N 1st St and Idaho Highway 33. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Driggs | $500 | Tree 1.5 feet in diameter snapped off at base on Goldshire Drive. |
| September 2024 | Flash Flood | Driggs | $200 | A 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 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Driggs | - | Fall River Rural Electric reported 26 customers without power in downtown Driggs. |
| July 2008 | Hail | Driggs | - | Nickel sized hail at Driggs. |
| September 2000 | Funnel Cloud | Driggs | - | Two funnel clouds spotted. |
| May 1997 | Funnel Cloud | Driggs | - | 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 2006 | Hail | Driggs | - | no account filed |
| August 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Driggs | - | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Hail | Driggs | - | 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 Driggs | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1516586 | 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 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.






