Menan, Idaho
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1948 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Lewisville-Menan census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83434. The Survey maps it on the Rigby quadrangle. 715 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,856 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresMenan fell from 741 to 715 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 | 741 | |
| 2020 | 715 | -26 (-4%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 12 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.
- 1948 USGS Rigby quadrangle1:24000
- 1949 USGS Rigby quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1950 USGS Rigby quadrangle1:62500
- 1955 USGS Driggs quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Driggs quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Driggs quadrangle1:250000
- 1988 USGS Rexburg quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
8 since 2001Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Menan between 2001 and 2018, burning about 248 acres in total. 2 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 | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 September 2006 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2.2 acres | Idaho Falls District | MENAN BUTTE |
| 3 August 2001 | Natural | under an acre | Idaho Falls District | WRONGDIREC |
| 19 August 2001 | Recreation and ceremony | 3.0 acres | Idaho Falls District | ANNIS |
| 2 July 2017 | Fireworks | 238 acres | Idaho Falls District | MENAN BUTTE |
| 30 June 2003 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Idaho Falls District | MENAN |
| 16 May 2012 | Natural | under an acre | Idaho Falls District | MENAN BUTTE |
| 21 April 2003 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Idaho Falls District | ANNIS |
| 10 February 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Idaho Falls District | MENAN |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
7 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Menan: 7 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Borrow Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Borrow Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
6 since 2023Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Menan in 6 storm reports between 2023 and 2024: 6 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 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Menan | $8,000 | Four trees snapped off and down at the intersection of E 700 N and N 3700 E with several pieces of siding removes from residence and small twigs and branches impaled into the siding on one side and one tree down on a roof. |
| June 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Menan | $7,000 | A livestock outbuilding constructed of wooden beams, wooden poles, and sheet metal destroyed along N 3800 E and just south of E 800 N. Multiple trees and large tree limbs down in the area. |
| June 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Menan | $5,000 | Multiple trees down from Menan, to Annis to Lorenzo along Menan Lorenzo Highway. Multiple trees downd, damage to residential siding, power lines down. |
| August 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Menan | $2,000 | Two trees at least 1 foot in diameter snapped off at base. |
| June 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Menan | $1,000 | Tree snapped off and down at Annis Little Butte Cemetary. |
| June 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Menan | $1,000 | A tree was uprooted in Menan and Rocky Mountain Power reported 7,000 customers without power. |
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.
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 Menan | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q593453 | 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 400233. 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.






