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Fort Hall, Idaho

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1940 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Fort Hall census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83202. The Survey maps it on the Fort Hall quadrangle. 3,195 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,442 feet above sea level.

Fort Hall within Bingham County

On record in Fort Hall

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 4 records

Population over time

2 figures

Fort Hall fell from 3,201 to 3,195 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
20103,201
20203,195-6 (-0%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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

42 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 42 fires within 5 miles of Fort Hall between 1994 and 2020, burning about 4,738 acres in total. 12 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/undetermined13
Natural12
Fireworks5
Equipment and vehicle use4
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Smoking1
Arson/incendiarism1
Firearms and explosives use1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
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
9 September 2005Natural63 acresFort Hall AgencyTRADING POST
4 September 2008Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFort Hall AgencyFT HALL ASST 9
4 September 2008Railroad operations and maintenance5.0 acresFort Hall AgencyFT HALL ASST 8
4 September 2008Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFort Hall AgencyFT. HALL ASST 4
11 September 2003Equipment and vehicle use13 acresIdaho Falls DistrictMORNING
1 September 1996Smoking51 acresIdaho Falls DistrictNORTHPOCA.
3 August 1999Natural1.0 acresIdaho Falls DistrictHYRAM 3
28 August 2012Natural60 acresFort Hall AgencyFORT HALL ASSIST 2

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bingham County

Storms near this place

2 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fort Hall in 2 storm reports in 1995: 1 tornado, 1 hail. 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
April 1995Tornado (F0)Fort Hall$50,000A series of tornados touch down in Bingham County causing damage to mobile homes, highway signs, and recreational equipment.
September 1995HailFort Hall-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
Gibson4.8 miles12
Pingree10.3 miles12
Thomas10.9 miles10
Liberty11.2 miles10
Riverside11.3 miles12
Blackfoot11.9 miles13
Rockford11.9 miles10
Collins12.1 miles12

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 Fort HallAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2460990The 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 396503. 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.

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.