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Garden Valley, Idaho

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1989. It stands in the Garden Valley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83622. It lies near Schoolhouse Gulch. The Survey maps it on the Garden Valley quadrangle. 377 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,146 feet above sea level.

Garden Valley within Boise County

Population over time

2 figures

Garden Valley fell from 394 to 377 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
2010394
2020377-17 (-4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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

132 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 132 fires within 5 miles of Garden Valley between 1992 and 2020, burning about 16,536 acres in total. 69 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
Natural69
Recreation and ceremony17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Debris and open burning10
Power generation/transmission/distribution7
Smoking5
Equipment and vehicle use3
Arson/incendiarism2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Fireworks2

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 2012Naturalunder an acreBoise National ForestSTATION CREEK
9 September 2012Naturalunder an acreBoise National ForestHOMER
7 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreBoise National Forestnot named
6 September 2014Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreBoise National ForestHORN
6 September 2013Naturalunder an acreBoise National ForestJUG HEAD
6 September 2001Naturalunder an acreBoise National ForestGOOSEBERRY
6 September 1998Naturalunder an acreBoise National ForestHALL
6 September 1998Naturalunder an acreBoise National ForestMOONRISE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Boise County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Garden Valley: 7 occurrences, 3 unknowns, 3 prospects, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: REE, Geothermal, Gold, Mercury. 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
Bowman ProspectNiobium (Columbium), Mica, REEOccurrenceColumbite, Euxenite, Muscovite
Bowman ProspectNiobium (Columbium), REE, MicaUnknown
Garden Valley Placer AreaREE, ZirconiumProspect
H.G. ClaimsMercuryOccurrenceVein
Mica Dome ProspectREE, Mica, FeldsparOccurrencePlagioclase
Mirandeborde ProspectsMica, REE, Niobium (Columbium)OccurrenceColumbite
Mirandeborde ProspectsREE, Niobium (Columbium), MicaUnknown
Nevada #1,2,3,4Uranium, REEProspect
Rathhoff PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Horse Shoe PlacerGoldPast ProducerPlacer

Every working recorded in Boise 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
Crouch2.0 miles14
Grimes Pass5.9 miles13
Quartzburg9.1 miles20
Banks9.1 miles16
Pioneerville10.0 miles19
Placerville10.1 miles20
Granite10.3 miles20
Big Eddy12.0 miles16

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 ValleyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2917621The 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 396530. 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.