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.
Population over time
2 figuresGarden 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 394 | |
| 2020 | 377 | -17 (-4%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 14 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.
- 1909 USGS Garden Valley quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Challis quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1959 USGS Garden Valley quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1960 USGS Challis quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Challis quadrangle1:250000
- 1982 USGS Deadwood River quadrangle1:100000
- 1988 USGS Garden Valley quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1989 USGS Challis quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
132 since 1992Regional 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 69 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 17 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 15 |
| Debris and open burning | 10 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 7 |
| Smoking | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
| Fireworks | 2 |
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 2012 | Natural | under an acre | Boise National Forest | STATION CREEK |
| 9 September 2012 | Natural | under an acre | Boise National Forest | HOMER |
| 7 September 1993 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Boise National Forest | not named |
| 6 September 2014 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Boise National Forest | HORN |
| 6 September 2013 | Natural | under an acre | Boise National Forest | JUG HEAD |
| 6 September 2001 | Natural | under an acre | Boise National Forest | GOOSEBERRY |
| 6 September 1998 | Natural | under an acre | Boise National Forest | HALL |
| 6 September 1998 | Natural | under an acre | Boise National Forest | MOONRISE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 15 shownRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bowman Prospect | Niobium (Columbium), Mica, REE | Occurrence | Columbite, Euxenite, Muscovite | |
| Bowman Prospect | Niobium (Columbium), REE, Mica | Unknown | ||
| Garden Valley Placer Area | REE, Zirconium | Prospect | ||
| H.G. Claims | Mercury | Occurrence | Vein | |
| Mica Dome Prospect | REE, Mica, Feldspar | Occurrence | Plagioclase | |
| Mirandeborde Prospects | Mica, REE, Niobium (Columbium) | Occurrence | Columbite | |
| Mirandeborde Prospects | REE, Niobium (Columbium), Mica | Unknown | ||
| Nevada #1,2,3,4 | Uranium, REE | Prospect | ||
| Rathhoff Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Horse Shoe Placer | Gold | Past Producer | Placer |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Crouch | 2.0 miles | 14 | |
| Grimes Pass | 5.9 miles | 13 | |
| Quartzburg | 9.1 miles | 20 | |
| Banks | 9.1 miles | 16 | |
| Pioneerville | 10.0 miles | 19 | |
| Placerville | 10.1 miles | 20 | |
| Granite | 10.3 miles | 20 | |
| Big Eddy | 12.0 miles | 16 |
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 Valley | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2917621 | 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 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.







