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Richfield, Idaho

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Richfield census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83349. The Survey maps it on the Richfield quadrangle. 431 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,298 feet above sea level.

Richfield within Lincoln County

On record in Richfield

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 11 records

Population over time

2 figures

Richfield fell from 482 to 431 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
2010482
2020431-51 (-11%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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

12 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Richfield between 1995 and 2019, burning about 178,933 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
Equipment and vehicle use4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Natural2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Debris and open burning1

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
6 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTwin Falls DistrictTHELEDGE
13 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.5 acresTwin Falls DistrictMM 181
8 August 1995Misuse of fire by a minor2.0 acresTwin Falls DistrictRIVERWOOD
15 August 1998Naturalunder an acreTwin Falls DistrictMARLEYRD
9 July 2007Equipment and vehicle use360 acresTwin Falls DistrictJIM BROWN BRIDGE
9 July 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTwin Falls DistrictSWIMMING HOLE
3 July 1996Natural178,459 acresTwin Falls DistrictRICHFIELDS
14 July 2006Equipment and vehicle use1.1 acresTwin Falls DistrictHWY 93 MM 175

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lincoln County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Richfield: 1 producer. All of them still produce. 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
Cottonwood PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Lincoln County

Storms near this place

18 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Richfield in 18 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 12 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 1 tornado. 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
August 2012Thunderstorm WindRichfield$5,000At mile post 169 on highway 26 four trees and 2 power lines were downed by thunderstorm winds. Power lines fell on the highway and only one lane was open for several hours.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindRichfield-A large power outage reported across the city of Richfield due to thunderstorm winds.
September 2021Thunderstorm WindRichfield-A 59 mph wind gust near Richfield.
July 2020Thunderstorm WindRichfield-A 68 mph wind gust measured at the Richfield mesonet site.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindRichfield-A 59 mph thunderstorm outflow wind was measured in Richfield.
September 2016Thunderstorm WindRichfield-A 62 mph wind gust measured by Richfield.
August 2014HailRichfield-Golf ball sized hail reported in Richfield.
August 2014HailRichfield-One inch hail reported in the city of Richfield.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindRichfield-Mesonet site at Richfield measured a 61 mph wind gust at 8:13 pm MDT.
October 2006Tornado (F0)Richfield-Tornado over open ground near Mammoth Ice Caves. No damage occurred.
May 2005HailRichfield-One inch hail in Richfield.
June 2006Thunderstorm WindRichfield-no account filed
July 2004Thunderstorm WindRichfield-no account filed
August 2003Thunderstorm WindRichfield-no account filed
January 1998Thunderstorm WindRichfield-no account filed
May 1998HailRichfield-no account filed
May 1998HailRichfield-no account filed
August 1996Thunderstorm WindRichfield-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lincoln 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
Marley4.6 miles8
Pagari6.5 miles9
Burmah7.9 miles9
Besslen9.7 miles7
Dietrich11.2 miles7
Owinza11.6 miles7
Shoshone15.4 miles8
Tunupa23.4 miles7

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 RichfieldAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q935656The 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 398042. 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.