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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.

Georgetown within Bear Lake County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Georgetown 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.

YearPeople Change
2010476
2020503+27 (+6%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

5 since 1992

Regional 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
Natural4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
27 August 2020Natural38 acresBear Lake CountyGEORGETOWN
1 August 2019Natural10 acresCaribou-Targhee National ForestNORTH HILL
28 July 1992Naturalunder an acreCaribou-Targhee National Forestnot named
2 July 2000Naturalunder an acreCaribou-Targhee National ForestBIG CANYON
7 June 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCaribou-Targhee National Forestnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bear Lake County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Georgetown Area LimestoneLimestone, GeneralUnknown
Nounan GroupCopperOccurrenceReplacement
Unnamed LocationCopperProspect
Bear River AreaPhosphorus-PhosphatesUnknown
Merriman Potash CompanyPhosphorus-PhosphatesPast Producer
Phosphate DepositPhosphorus-PhosphatesOccurrence

Every working recorded in Bear Lake County

Storms near this place

2 since 2007

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2010Thunderstorm WindGeorgetown-A spotter reported a 60 mph wind gust near Georgetown.
September 2007Thunderstorm WindGeorgetown-Spotter reported a measured wind gust of 68 mph from a thunderstorm in Georgetown.

Every storm recorded in Bear Lake 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
Wooleys2.3 miles14
Novene2.5 miles14
Nounan4.3 miles14
Lindsayville4.5 miles14
Bennington6.8 miles13
Manson9.1 miles10
Bern9.9 miles13
Sharon10.7 miles13

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 GeorgetownAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1517864The 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.