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Jerome, Idaho

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Jerome census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83338. The Survey maps it on the Jerome quadrangle. 12,349 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,763 feet above sea level.

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Jerome within Jerome County

On record in Jerome

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 12 of 56 shown

Every listing in Jerome County

Population over time

2 figures

Jerome grew from 10,890 to 12,349 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
201010,890
202012,349+1,459 (+13%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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

7 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Jerome between 1995 and 2017, burning about 12 acres in total. None 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
Debris and open burning3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Fireworks1

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
18 August 1995Debris and open burning1.0 acresTwin Falls DistrictAPPLIANCE
10 August 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.9 acresTwin Falls DistrictHWY93 MM59
27 July 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTwin Falls DistrictHWY93 MM58
1 July 2005Debris and open burning1.0 acresTwin Falls DistrictI84 MM162
23 June 2004Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTwin Falls DistrictREST STOP
11 February 2015Debris and open burning1.9 acresTwin Falls DistrictGOLF COURSE RD
4 November 1999Fireworksunder an acreTwin Falls DistrictFLATTOP

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jerome County

Storms near this place

17 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Jerome in 17 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 9 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 2 flood, 1 tornado. 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
February 2017FloodJerome$2,750,000Rainfall and rapid melting of low elevation snowpack on top of frozen and saturated soil led to widespread flooding. Many roads around Jerome were damaged and closed due to flood waters. Widespread flooding of agricultural lands occurred.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindJerome-A tree branch with a width estimated to be 1.5 - 2 feet in diameter fell onto a parked car, causing significant damage to a parked car. Winds are estimated to be 65 MPH, given the size of the branch that fell while also taking into consideration that the branch appeared to be unhealthy in the image.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindJerome-The local newspaper reported that a barn had collapsed and power poles were down just north of Jerome.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindJerome-The Jerome Butte ITD station reported a wind gust of 64 MPH.
July 2014Thunderstorm WindJerome-One tree blown down and tin roofing removed from the roof of a barn in Jerome. Images forwarded by KMVT.
August 2014HailJerome-A trained spotter reported ping pong ball size hail covering most of the ground and damage to his corn crop.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindJerome-A wind gust of 60 MPH was reported at the Jerome ASOS.
May 2013Tornado (EF0)Jerome-A Jerome County deputy reported a brief tornado touchdown. No damage was reported.
August 2013HailJerome-Local media reported quarter sized hail around the Jerome, Idaho area.
August 2012Thunderstorm WindJerome-KMVT television station reported a large tree was uprooted in Jerome, Idaho.
January 2011FloodJerome-The North Side Canal overflowed around the intersection of Tiger Drive and 16th Avenue East on Monday the 17th. City workers cleared mud and debris from streets and some homes and basements were flooded.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindJerome-Jerome County Sherrif dispatch reported trees and power lines down in the town of Jerome and the ASOS reported a wind gust of 67 MPH.
August 2003Thunderstorm WindJerome-Wide spread thunderstorms moved into in Jerome County. These storms brought, heavy rain and strong winds that blew down trees and caused power outages in Jerome and Gooding counties. Blowing dust across Interstate 84 with visibilities as low as 10 feet caused several accidents.
May 1998HailJerome-The Jerome County Sheriff reported 1.75 inch hailstones from a severe thunderstorm.
August 1997HailJerome-A spotter in Jerome reported 7/8 inch hail with an evening thunderstorm.
August 2000Thunderstorm WindJerome-no account filed
June 1998HailJerome-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jerome 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
Hydra1.7 miles11
Haytown (historical)2.3 miles11
Barrymore4.2 miles8
Falls City5.8 miles8
Sugar Loaf8.0 miles8
Perrine11.7 miles8
Hunt14.6 miles8
Tipperary Corner15.5 miles8

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 JeromeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1518127The 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 396706. 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.

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.