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Eden, Idaho

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1964. It stands in the Eden-Hazelton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83325. The Survey maps it on the Eden quadrangle. 393 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,963 feet above sea level.

Eden within Jerome County

On record in Eden

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 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Eden fell from 405 to 393 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
2010405
2020393-12 (-3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

3 surveys from 8 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

28 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Eden between 1992 and 2020, burning about 7,216 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Equipment and vehicle use7
Natural5
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Debris and open burning2
Arson/incendiarism1

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 2019Debris and open burning332 acresTwin Falls DistrictNORTH WILSON
25 September 2003Arson/incendiarism872 acresTwin Falls DistrictHWY25MM17
14 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTwin Falls DistrictOASIS
14 September 2005Equipment and vehicle use5,176 acresTwin Falls DistrictWILSON
13 September 2009Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTwin Falls DistrictEDEN
24 August 1999Natural1.5 acresTwin Falls DistrictGOOSELAKE
22 August 2005Natural12 acresTwin Falls DistrictHWY25 MM16
20 August 1996Railroad operations and maintenance10 acresTwin Falls DistrictGOOSE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jerome County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Eden: 4 occurrences, 3 past producers, 3 unknowns, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Pumice, Volcanic Materials, Iron, Chromium. 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
Clay CavesClayUnknown
Eden Butte Cinder DepositPumice, Volcanic MaterialsProducerCinders
Snake River Placer DepositsGold, Iron, ChromiumPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Snake River PlacersGoldPast Producer1862
Snake River PlacersGoldPast Producer1862
Unnamed LocationGoldOccurrence
Unnamed LocationGoldOccurrence
Unnamed LocationGoldOccurrence

Every working recorded in Jerome County

Storms near this place

2 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Eden in 2 storm reports between 2019 and 2025: 1 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
May 2025Thunderstorm WindEden-Mesonet station 3251 D4 - Hansen Bridge recorded a wind gust of 79 MPH as a thunderstorm passed over.
September 2019HailEden-A trained spotter reported one inch hail near Eden.

Every storm recorded in Jerome 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
Hillsdale (historical)2.1 miles8
Hazelton4.0 miles8
Tipperary Corner4.9 miles8
Hunt5.4 miles8
Perrine6.5 miles8
McHenry8.4 miles7
Greenwood8.8 miles7
Sugar Loaf10.3 miles8

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 EdenAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1516385The 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 396443. 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.