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New Plymouth, Idaho

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the New Plymouth census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83655. The Survey maps it on the New Plymouth quadrangle. 1,494 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,264 feet above sea level.

New Plymouth within Payette County

On record in New Plymouth

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 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

New Plymouth fell from 1,538 to 1,494 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
20101,538
20201,494-44 (-3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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

8 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of New Plymouth between 1992 and 2018, burning about 167 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
Equipment and vehicle use5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Recreation and ceremony1

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
20 September 1992Recreation and ceremony3.0 acresBoise DistrictI-84 MP 7
2 September 1999Equipment and vehicle use9.0 acresBoise DistrictI84 3TA9
12 September 1999Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreBoise DistrictI 84 MP 6
5 August 2001Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresBoise DistrictMP9I84
30 July 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresBoise DistrictMP 10 I-84
15 July 2014Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreBoise DistrictMM9 I84
30 June 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreBoise DistrictRA4 PAYETTE CO
26 June 2006Equipment and vehicle use151 acresBoise DistrictI84 MP6

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Payette County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of New Plymouth: 2 prospects. 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProspect
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProspect

Every working recorded in Payette County

Storms near this place

14 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names New Plymouth in 14 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 6 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 2 heavy rain, 1 tornado. The reports record 3 injuries. 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
June 2024HailNew Plymouth3 hurtHail from a storm that was approximately one inch in diameter accumulated three inches deep on I-84 near Exit 9 and caused slick roads and 2 car accidents.
May 1996Thunderstorm WindNew Plymouth$5,000no account filed
May 1996Thunderstorm WindNew Plymouth$5,000no account filed
July 1995HailNew Plymouth$5,000no account filed
March 2017FloodNew Plymouth$2,000Flooding occurred along the Payette River around the Payette, Idaho area and surrounding fields and roads.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindNew Plymouth-A large diameter branch fell on a powerline and started a house fire, causing significant damage to the structure.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindNew Plymouth-A metal roof was blown off a home in New Plymouth, ID.
March 2023Heavy RainNew Plymouth-The mesonet station DW6457 near New Plymouth, ID measured 0.87 inches of heavy rain.
June 2022Heavy RainNew Plymouth-The Mesonet station, DW6457, near New Plymouth measured 1.11 inches of total rainfall.
August 2017Thunderstorm WindNew Plymouth-Social media posted pictures of utility poles snapped in half near New Plymouth. National Weather Service radar indicated outflow thunderstorm winds were around 50 knots.
August 2004Tornado (F0)New Plymouth-Near Sand Hollow, Payette, Gem county line. No damaged reported.
July 2003HailNew Plymouth-Wind gusts to 44 knots taking shingles off buildings.
June 1997Thunderstorm WindNew Plymouth-no account filed
July 1995HailNew Plymouth-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Payette 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
Hamilton Corner2.7 miles12
Buckingham4.2 miles11
Fort Wilson4.3 miles16
Palisades Corner5.0 miles11
Fruitland5.8 miles16
Eiffie6.5 miles16
Ramey6.7 miles16
Gayway Corner6.7 miles16

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 PlymouthAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1517585The 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 396952. 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.