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New Meadows, Idaho

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 2004. It stands in the New Meadows census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83654. It stands on Little Creek. The Survey maps it on the New Meadows quadrangle. 517 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,868 feet above sea level.

New Meadows within Adams County

On record in New Meadows

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 3 records

Population over time

2 figures

New Meadows grew from 496 to 517 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
2010496
2020517+21 (+4%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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

80 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 80 fires within 5 miles of New Meadows between 1992 and 2020, burning about 27 acres in total. 50 started naturally. 1 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
Natural50
Debris and open burning8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Recreation and ceremony6
Equipment and vehicle use5
Smoking2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
8 September 2003Naturalunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsSIGN
7 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Idaho Timber Protective Association, Idaho Department of LandsPACKER JOHN
6 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsMUD CREEK
5 September 2006Naturalunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsROCK
5 September 1993Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsCEMETERY
4 September 2015Naturalunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsRUBICON
26 September 2017Naturalunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsMIDDLE MUD
26 September 1994Smoking4.8 acresIdaho Department of LandsBIG CREEK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Adams County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of New Meadows: 3 occurrences, 3 prospects, 1 unknown, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Manganese, Geothermal, Mica, Chromium. 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
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
New Meadows State PitStoneProducer
Rose Marie ProspectChromiumProspectChromite
Clark Mica ProspectMicaProspect
Clark ProspectMicaProspect1940
Krigbaum Hot SpringsGeothermalOccurrence
Manganese Mts.ManganeseUnknown
New Meadows Manganese DepositManganeseOccurrence
Zims Resort Hot SpringsGeothermalOccurrence

Every working recorded in Adams County

Storms near this place

2 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names New Meadows in 2 storm reports between 2012 and 2020: 1 flood, 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2020Thunderstorm WindNew Meadows-Downed trees and power lines blocked old Highway 95 near Hot Springs Road.
March 2012FloodNew Meadows-Several roads in New Meadows were flooded with water 1 to 2 feet deep including Hubbard Road and Main Street.

Every storm recorded in Adams 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
Meadows2.2 miles13
Rubicon4.6 miles14
Tamarack5.5 miles13
Pine Ridge5.7 miles13
Woodland6.0 miles13
Evergreen7.9 miles13
Stevens9.8 miles14
Glendale11.5 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 New MeadowsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1513617The 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 387535. 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.