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Gooding, Idaho

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1971. It stands in the Gooding census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83330. The Survey maps it on the Gooding quadrangle. 3,707 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,573 feet above sea level.

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Gooding within Gooding County

On record in Gooding

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 6 records

Population over time

3 figures

Gooding grew from 1,444 to 3,707 between 1910 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
19101,444
20103,567
20203,707+140 (+4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

3 surveys from 7 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

28 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Gooding between 1996 and 2020, burning about 5,878 acres in total. 5 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
Equipment and vehicle use8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Natural5
Debris and open burning3
Fireworks2
Smoking1
Firearms and explosives use1

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
7 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined75 acresGooding CountyRURAL ASSIST 3
27 September 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreTwin Falls DistrictSHOESTNG
2 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use190 acresTwin Falls DistrictSHOESTRING EAST
19 September 1996Debris and open burning186 acresTwin Falls DistrictGOODING
10 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTwin Falls DistrictMALAD RIVER
3 August 1999Naturalunder an acreTwin Falls DistrictPOWERLINE
3 August 1999Natural1.0 acresTwin Falls District4SGOODING
28 August 2008Equipment and vehicle use13 acresTwin Falls DistrictSHOESTRING II

Every fire recorded in Gooding County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Gooding: 1 occurrence, 1 past producer, 1 unknown, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Volcanic Materials. 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
Cinder DepositVolcanic MaterialsOccurrenceCinders
Cinder PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Gooding County

Storms near this place

15 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gooding in 15 storm reports between 1996 and 2020: 6 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 2 heavy rain, 2 flood. 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
April 2017FloodGooding$250,000The combination of rain and melting of near record snowpack in the Big Wood Basin led to significant flooding along the Big Wood River. Magic Reservoir filled to capacity sending large flows over the spillway and downriver through Gooding County. Extensive flooding of agricultural land occurred and several county roads were inundated with water. Just north of Gooding, portions of County Road 1700 South, 1800 East, and 1950 East were inundated with water and damaged. A few homes and businesses near the river were surrounded by water. Lowland flooding and damage to county roads occurred in the county well downstream from Gooding.
May 2017FloodGooding$100,000Rapid snowmelt in the high elevations of the Big Wood Basin sent high flows over the spillway of Magic Reservoir causing flooding downstream in Gooding County. Agricultural land and low lying roads were impacted by the high water around the town of Gooding.
June 1998HailGooding$2,000no account filed
April 2020Thunderstorm WindGooding-The ITD mesonet site north of Gooding recorded a wind gust of 64 MPH with reports of wind damage around the area.
May 2020Thunderstorm WindGooding-A 12 foot diameter Poplar tree was uprooted in Gooding.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindGooding-The local newspaper reported several trees and power lines down around Gooding.
August 2014HailGooding-A trained spotter reported quarter sized hail, water running through his shop and downed branches in his yard measuring around 2,5 inches.
August 2009HailGooding-A trained spotter near Gooding, Idaho reported golf ball sized hail.
April 2002Thunderstorm WindGooding-A trained storm spotter reported that severe thunderstorm winds destroyed a 20-foot tall by 15-foot wide granary in Gooding.
April 2006HailGooding-no account filed
June 2002Thunderstorm WindGooding-no account filed
May 1998HailGooding-no account filed
May 1996Heavy RainGooding-no account filed
May 1996Heavy RainGooding-no account filed
June 1996Thunderstorm WindGooding-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Gooding 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
Fuller5.9 miles8
Tuttle8.7 miles9
Wendell11.3 miles7
Bliss12.6 miles10
Hagerman13.2 miles10
Appleton13.8 miles11

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 GoodingAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1516672The 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 399894. 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.