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Firth, Idaho

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Firth census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83236. The Survey maps it on the Firth quadrangle. 517 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,570 feet above sea level.

Firth within Bingham County

On record in Firth

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

Firth grew from 477 to 517 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
2010477
2020517+40 (+8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 10 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

20 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Firth between 1994 and 2020, burning about 98 acres in total. 6 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Natural6
Equipment and vehicle use4
Arson/incendiarism2
Debris and open burning1
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
4 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined17 acresIdaho Falls DistrictHELLS HALF ACRE S
2 September 2006Equipment and vehicle use14 acresIdaho Falls DistrictMILE 100
1 September 2000Naturalunder an acreIdaho Falls DistrictWEST PERGA
1 September 2000Naturalunder an acreIdaho Falls DistrictEAST PURGA
1 September 2000Naturalunder an acreIdaho Falls DistrictHADES
5 August 2009Naturalunder an acreIdaho Falls DistrictHELLS HALF ACRE
20 August 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreIdaho Falls DistrictHAY BALE
12 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIdaho Falls District105 MILE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bingham County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Firth: 9 past producers, 1 producer. 1 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, ConstructionProducer
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
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 Bingham County

Storms near this place

3 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Firth in 3 storm reports between 2000 and 2015: 1 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. The reports record 1 injury. 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
February 2000Tornado (F1)Firth1 hurt, $275,000Near Taylorsville a mobile home and garage were destroyed, 3 houses sustained minor roof damage and a cinder block building collapsed. Along the tornado's track, 4 center pivot and 5 wheel irrigation lines were damaged.
April 2015HailFirth$2,000As much as 1 to 4 inches of small hail accumulated on interstate 15 between Firth and Shelley and several slide offs and accidents were reported by area law enforcement. No injuries occurred in the accidents.
August 2004Thunderstorm WindFirth-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Bingham 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
Goshen Junction0.3 miles10
Basalt1.2 miles10
Kimball2.9 miles10
Goshen5.3 miles11
Wapello5.6 miles13
Shelley6.1 miles13
Mitchell7.4 miles13
Rising River8.0 miles10

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 FirthAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q931132The 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 396489. 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.