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.
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
Pierce-Borah Houselisted 1983
Population over time
2 figuresGarden 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 10,972 | |
| 2020 | 12,316 | +1,344 (+12%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 19 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.
- 1892 USGS Boise quadrangle1:125000
- 1897 USGS Boise quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1954 USGS Boise quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Boise South quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Boise quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Boise quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Boise quadrangle1:250000
- 1972 USGS Boise South quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1981 USGS Boise quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
24 since 1992Regional 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/undetermined | 9 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 6 |
| Fireworks | 3 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Other causes | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 September 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 70 acres | Boise District | RA 11 ADA CO |
| 27 September 1999 | Fireworks | 2.0 acres | Boise District | OVERLOOK |
| 21 September 2014 | Smoking | 3.0 acres | Boise District | SUNNY |
| 13 September 1995 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Boise District | SEAMAN GLC |
| 1 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 200 acres | Boise District | RA6 ADA CO |
| 9 August 2001 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Boise District | BLUE CAR |
| 28 August 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Boise District | RA11 BFD |
| 26 August 1996 | Equipment and vehicle use | 15,263 acres | Boise National Forest | EIGHTH STREET |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 52 shownRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Geothermal Location | Geothermal | Occurrence | ||
| Morning Star Mine | Gold, Silver | Past Producer | Vein | |
| Rip Rap Pit-Gowen Field | Stone, Dimension | Unknown | ||
| Diatomite Occurrence | Diatomite | Occurrence | Sedimentary | |
| Perlite Deposit | Perlite | Occurrence | ||
| Rocky Canyon | Diatomite | Occurrence | ||
| Unnamed Location | Perlite | Past Producer | ||
| Beacon Street Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Boise Monroc Pit and Plant | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Boise Rip Pit and Plant | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Boise Junction | 1.5 miles | 16 | |
| Boise | 1.9 miles | 19 | |
| Perkins | 2.2 miles | 16 | |
| Collister | 2.5 miles | 18 | |
| Boise Hills Village | 2.7 miles | 18 | |
| Highlands | 2.9 miles | 18 | |
| Ustick | 4.5 miles | 17 | |
| Vernon | 4.7 miles | 19 |
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 City | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1516892 | 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 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.








