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Midvale, Idaho

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1897 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Midvale census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83645. It stands on Beaver Creek. The Survey maps it on the Midvale quadrangle. 193 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,543 feet above sea level.

Midvale within Washington County

Population over time

2 figures

Midvale grew from 171 to 193 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
2010171
2020193+22 (+13%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 15 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

10 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Midvale between 1992 and 2018, burning about 3,502 acres in total. 3 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Natural3

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 2012Equipment and vehicle use100 acresPayette National ForestDRY CREEK
23 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined250 acresBoise DistrictRA 10 WASHINGTON CO
18 August 2001Equipment and vehicle use250 acresPayette National ForestSHOEPEG
15 August 2006Natural60 acresPayette National ForestGREENFIELD
13 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePayette National ForestSAGE CR
1 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined162 acresPayette National ForestGREEN FEILD
31 July 2011Equipment and vehicle use257 acresPayette National ForestREST STOP
20 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined2,103 acresPayette National ForestROADSIDE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Washington County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Midvale: 3 occurrences, 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Geothermal, Mercury, 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Midvale Sand and GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Taylor CinnabarMercuryPast ProducerCinnabar
Geothermal LocationGeothermalOccurrence
Geothermal LocationGeothermalOccurrence
J WigginsGeothermalOccurrence

Every working recorded in Washington County

Storms near this place

2 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Midvale in 2 storm reports between 1997 and 2005: 1 debris flow, 1 hail. 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
May 2005HailMidvale-no account filed
July 1997Debris FlowMidvale-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Washington 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
Diamond4.5 miles15
Barton6.9 miles15
Salubria7.3 miles11
Cambridge7.7 miles11
Concrete8.6 miles15
Crane (historical)16.5 miles14
Rebecca17.2 miles15
Mineral19.3 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 MidvaleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1510008The 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 396891. 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.