Georgetown, Idaho
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Georgetown census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83239. It stands on Georgetown Creek. The Survey maps it on the Georgetown quadrangle. 503 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 6,043 feet above sea level.
On record in Georgetown
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
Georgetown Relief Society Halllisted 1998
Population over time
2 figuresGeorgetown grew from 476 to 503 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 | 476 | |
| 2020 | 503 | +27 (+6%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 13 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 Montpelier quadrangle1:125000
- 1911 USGS Montpelier quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1955 USGS Preston quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Preston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Preston quadrangle1:250000
- 1970 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1983 USGS Preston quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
5 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Georgetown between 1992 and 2020, burning about 49 acres in total. 4 started naturally. None 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 4 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 August 2020 | Natural | 38 acres | Bear Lake County | GEORGETOWN |
| 1 August 2019 | Natural | 10 acres | Caribou-Targhee National Forest | NORTH HILL |
| 28 July 1992 | Natural | under an acre | Caribou-Targhee National Forest | not named |
| 2 July 2000 | Natural | under an acre | Caribou-Targhee National Forest | BIG CANYON |
| 7 June 1994 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Caribou-Targhee National Forest | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
6 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Georgetown: 2 occurrences, 2 unknowns, 1 prospect, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Phosphorus-Phosphates, Copper, Limestone, General. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Georgetown Area Limestone | Limestone, General | Unknown | ||
| Nounan Group | Copper | Occurrence | Replacement | |
| Unnamed Location | Copper | Prospect | ||
| Bear River Area | Phosphorus-Phosphates | Unknown | ||
| Merriman Potash Company | Phosphorus-Phosphates | Past Producer | ||
| Phosphate Deposit | Phosphorus-Phosphates | Occurrence |
Storms near this place
2 since 2007Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Georgetown in 2 storm reports between 2007 and 2010: 2 thunderstorm wind. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Georgetown | - | A spotter reported a 60 mph wind gust near Georgetown. |
| September 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Georgetown | - | Spotter reported a measured wind gust of 68 mph from a thunderstorm in Georgetown. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wooleys | 2.3 miles | 14 | |
| Novene | 2.5 miles | 14 | |
| Nounan | 4.3 miles | 14 | |
| Lindsayville | 4.5 miles | 14 | |
| Bennington | 6.8 miles | 13 | |
| Manson | 9.1 miles | 10 | |
| Bern | 9.9 miles | 13 | |
| Sharon | 10.7 miles | 13 |
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 Georgetown | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1517864 | 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 397735. 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.
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.






