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Iona, Idaho

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1948 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Idaho Falls census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83401. The Survey maps it on the Ucon quadrangle. 2,717 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,783 feet above sea level.

Iona within Bonneville County

On record in Iona

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

Iona grew from 1,803 to 2,717 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
20101,803
20202,717+914 (+51%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

13 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Iona between 1992 and 2018, burning about 1,119 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/undetermined4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Debris and open burning1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
3 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.5 acresIdaho Falls DistrictBONNEVILLE COUNTY ASSIST 2
1 September 2005Equipment and vehicle use93 acresIdaho Falls DistrictPANORAMA
30 August 1994Equipment and vehicle use595 acresIdaho Falls DistrictRIMROCK
29 August 1997Naturalunder an acreIdaho Falls DistrictDENSMORE C
27 August 1996Natural170 acresIdaho Falls DistrictPANORAMA
18 August 2010Power generation/transmission/distribution73 acresIdaho Falls DistrictIONA
11 August 1992Equipment and vehicle use98 acresIdaho Falls DistrictPETERSON
9 July 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIdaho Falls DistrictPANORAMA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bonneville County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Iona: 8 producers, 2 past producers, 1 unknown, 1 occurrence. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Pumice, Clay. 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
Clay, BrickClayUnknown
Amcor Crushing PlantPumiceProducer
Pumice DepositPumiceOccurrencePumice
Pumice Deposit (Snake River Valley)PumicePast ProducerPumice
Pumice, Inc. MinePumicePast ProducerPumice
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel Pit, Bonneville CoSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel Pit, Id Hwy DptSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Bonneville County

Storms near this place

9 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Iona in 9 storm reports between 2011 and 2024: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 tornado, 1 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
July 2022LightningIona$800,000A 2 story 5,000 square foot residence was struck by lightning causing a large fire. It occurred 2 miles northeast of Iona along E. Panorama Dr. A firefighter was injured in the fire. An estimated 800,000 dollars worth of damage occurred to the home.
April 2014Thunderstorm WindIona$3,000A trailer house on the Bonneville/Jefferson County line in between Rigby and Iona lost it's roof due to thunderstorm winds and 6 to 8 inch tree limbs were downed.
November 2017Tornado (EF0)Iona$200A cold air funnel touched ground between 225 and 235 PM MST on the bench between Idaho Falls and Ririe near highway 26. Several photographs were downloaded onto social media of the tornado. A destroyed metal picnic table was the only reported damage from the tornado.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindIona-A private weather station in Iona measured a 67 mph wind gust from thunderstorm outflow along E Lincoln Rd near Wood River Rd.
July 2022HailIona-One inch hail fell near Thunder Ridge High School. Photograph provided.
July 2021FloodIona-Significant street and yard flooding occurred in Iona. The intersection of E Lincoln Rd and Crook Rd and the intersection of E Tanner Dr and N Aubree Way were flooded with over 1 foot of water in the roads in some areas.
June 2015HailIona-One inch hail recorded 6 miles south of Ririe.
August 2015Thunderstorm WindIona-Photograph of small trees snapped and blown across road in Iona.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindIona-Large oak tree downed in Iona.

Every storm recorded in Bonneville 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
Lincoln1.9 miles12
Beachs Corner2.0 miles12
Orvin4.1 miles14
Ammon4.3 miles14
Ucon5.1 miles12
Milo6.4 miles12
Idaho Falls6.8 miles13
Payne7.1 miles14

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 IonaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1514630The 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 397811. 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.