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Garden City, Idaho

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Boise City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83714. It lies near Boise Valley. The Survey maps it on the Boise South quadrangle. 12,316 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,674 feet above sea level.

Garden City within Ada County

On record in Garden City

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

Garden City grew from 10,972 to 12,316 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
201010,972
202012,316+1,344 (+12%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 19 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

24 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Garden City between 1992 and 2018, burning about 16,185 acres in total. 2 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 use6
Fireworks3
Natural2
Arson/incendiarism1
Recreation and ceremony1
Smoking1
Other causes1

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
30 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined70 acresBoise DistrictRA 11 ADA CO
27 September 1999Fireworks2.0 acresBoise DistrictOVERLOOK
21 September 2014Smoking3.0 acresBoise DistrictSUNNY
13 September 1995Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresBoise DistrictSEAMAN GLC
1 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined200 acresBoise DistrictRA6 ADA CO
9 August 2001Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresBoise DistrictBLUE CAR
28 August 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreBoise DistrictRA11 BFD
26 August 1996Equipment and vehicle use15,263 acresBoise National ForestEIGHTH STREET

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ada County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 52 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 52 workings within 5 miles of Garden City: 33 past producers, 10 producers, 5 unknowns, 4 occurrences. 10 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Diatomite, Perlite, Geothermal. 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
Geothermal LocationGeothermalOccurrence
Morning Star MineGold, SilverPast ProducerVein
Rip Rap Pit-Gowen FieldStone, DimensionUnknown
Diatomite OccurrenceDiatomiteOccurrenceSedimentary
Perlite DepositPerliteOccurrence
Rocky CanyonDiatomiteOccurrence
Unnamed LocationPerlitePast Producer
Beacon Street PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Boise Monroc Pit and PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Boise Rip Pit and PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Ada 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
Boise Junction1.5 miles16
Boise1.9 miles19
Perkins2.2 miles16
Collister2.5 miles18
Boise Hills Village2.7 miles18
Highlands2.9 miles18
Ustick4.5 miles17
Vernon4.7 miles19

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 Garden CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1516892The 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 396529. 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.