Ririe, Idaho
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Ririe census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83443. The Survey maps it on the Ririe quadrangle. 667 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,964 feet above sea level.
On record in Ririe
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
Ririe A Pegram Truss Railroad Bridgelisted 1997
Ririe Community Halllisted 2019- Ririe B Pegram Truss Railroad Bridgelisted 1997
Population over time
2 figuresRirie grew from 656 to 667 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 | 656 | |
| 2020 | 667 | +11 (+2%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 11 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.
- 1950 USGS Rigby quadrangle1:62500
- 1950 USGS Ririe quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1955 USGS Driggs quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Driggs quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Driggs quadrangle1:250000
- 1988 USGS Rexburg quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
17 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Ririe between 1992 and 2018, burning about 623 acres in total. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Recreation and ceremony | 4 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Fireworks | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Other causes | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 September 2018 | Fireworks | 6.8 acres | Idaho Falls District | HEISE |
| 19 September 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 558 acres | Idaho Falls District | BIRCH CREEK |
| 19 September 1999 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Idaho Falls District | RIVERSIDE |
| 4 August 1992 | Smoking | under an acre | Idaho Falls District | KELLY |
| 3 August 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.0 acres | Idaho Falls District | BONNEVILLE COUNTY ASSIST 3 |
| 12 August 2005 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 7.0 acres | Idaho Falls District | CANYON |
| 4 July 2004 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Idaho Falls District | ELK HORN |
| 4 July 1992 | Other causes | under an acre | Idaho Falls District | TWIN BRDGS |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Ririe: 4 producers, 3 past producers, 3 occurrences. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Geothermal, Gold. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Heise Gold Placer | Gold | Past Producer | 1875 | |
| Elkhorn Warm Spring | Geothermal | Occurrence | ||
| Geothermal Location | Geothermal | Occurrence | ||
| Hawley Warm Spring | Geothermal | Occurrence | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit, Id Hwy Dpt | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit, Id Hwy Dpt | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Wheeler Pit No 4 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
3 since 2020Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ririe in 3 storm reports between 2020 and 2024: 3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ririe | $9,000 | Jefferson County Dispatch reported multiple trees down across far eastern Jefferson County. No injuries or fatalities reported. |
| August 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ririe | $3,000 | Large tree limbs broken off in Ririe and fell into roads. One tree was downed on wires. |
| April 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ririe | - | Wooden stockade fences were blown over in Ririe. |
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 Ririe | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1516320 | 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 398047. 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.





