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.
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
Lincoln Creek Day Schoollisted 2010
Ross Fork Episcopal Churchlisted 1983
Ross Fork Oregon Short Lines Railroad Depotlisted 1984- Fort Hall Sitelisted 1974
Population over time
2 figuresFort 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 3,201 | |
| 2020 | 3,195 | -6 (-0%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 12 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.
- 1940 USGS Blackfoot quadrangle1:62500
- 1943 USGS Blackfoot quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Idaho Falls quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1958 USGS Idaho Falls quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1971 USGS Fort Hall quadrangle1:24000
- 1978 USGS Blackfoot quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
42 since 1994Regional 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/undetermined | 13 |
| Natural | 12 |
| Fireworks | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 3 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Firearms and explosives use | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2005 | Natural | 63 acres | Fort Hall Agency | TRADING POST |
| 4 September 2008 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Fort Hall Agency | FT HALL ASST 9 |
| 4 September 2008 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 5.0 acres | Fort Hall Agency | FT HALL ASST 8 |
| 4 September 2008 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Fort Hall Agency | FT. HALL ASST 4 |
| 11 September 2003 | Equipment and vehicle use | 13 acres | Idaho Falls District | MORNING |
| 1 September 1996 | Smoking | 51 acres | Idaho Falls District | NORTHPOCA. |
| 3 August 1999 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Idaho Falls District | HYRAM 3 |
| 28 August 2012 | Natural | 60 acres | Fort Hall Agency | FORT HALL ASSIST 2 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
2 since 1995Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 1995 | Tornado (F0) | Fort Hall | $50,000 | A series of tornados touch down in Bingham County causing damage to mobile homes, highway signs, and recreational equipment. |
| September 1995 | Hail | Fort Hall | - | 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 Fort Hall | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2460990 | 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 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.





