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.
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
Col. E. M. Heigho Houselisted 1978
Meadows Schoolhouselisted 1979
Pacific and Idaho Northern Railroad Depotlisted 1978
Population over time
2 figuresNew 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 496 | |
| 2020 | 517 | +21 (+4%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 14 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.
- 1911 USGS Meadows quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS New Meadows quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Baker quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1959 USGS Baker quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1980 USGS McCall quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1986 USGS New Meadows quadrangle1:24000
- 2004 USGS New Meadows quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
80 since 1992Regional 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 50 |
| Debris and open burning | 8 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 6 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 5 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2003 | Natural | under an acre | Idaho Department of Lands | SIGN |
| 7 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | South Idaho Timber Protective Association, Idaho Department of Lands | PACKER JOHN |
| 6 September 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Idaho Department of Lands | MUD CREEK |
| 5 September 2006 | Natural | under an acre | Idaho Department of Lands | ROCK |
| 5 September 1993 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Idaho Department of Lands | CEMETERY |
| 4 September 2015 | Natural | under an acre | Idaho Department of Lands | RUBICON |
| 26 September 2017 | Natural | under an acre | Idaho Department of Lands | MIDDLE MUD |
| 26 September 1994 | Smoking | 4.8 acres | Idaho Department of Lands | BIG CREEK |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
9 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| New Meadows State Pit | Stone | Producer | ||
| Rose Marie Prospect | Chromium | Prospect | Chromite | |
| Clark Mica Prospect | Mica | Prospect | ||
| Clark Prospect | Mica | Prospect | 1940 | |
| Krigbaum Hot Springs | Geothermal | Occurrence | ||
| Manganese Mts. | Manganese | Unknown | ||
| New Meadows Manganese Deposit | Manganese | Occurrence | ||
| Zims Resort Hot Springs | Geothermal | Occurrence |
Storms near this place
2 since 2012Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | New Meadows | - | Downed trees and power lines blocked old Highway 95 near Hot Springs Road. |
| March 2012 | Flood | New Meadows | - | Several roads in New Meadows were flooded with water 1 to 2 feet deep including Hubbard Road and Main Street. |
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 New Meadows | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1513617 | 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 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.






