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Rockford, Idaho

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Moreland census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83221. The Survey maps it on the Rockford quadrangle. 291 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,465 feet above sea level.

Rockford within Bingham County

Population over time

2 figures

Rockford grew from 276 to 291 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
2010276
2020291+15 (+5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 10 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 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Rockford between 1995 and 2020, burning about 89 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
Natural2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Recreation and ceremony1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Fireworks1

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
7 September 2020Power generation/transmission/distribution2.0 acresBingham CountyBINGHAM COUNTY ASSIST 9
4 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined46 acresBingham CountyBINGHAM COUNTY ASSIST 7
23 August 1996Recreation and ceremony5.0 acresIdaho Falls DistrictRIVERTON
19 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined22 acresIdaho Falls DistrictBINGHAM COUNTY ASSIST 3
14 August 1995Naturalunder an acreCaribou-Targhee National ForestCOW CREEK
13 July 2005Fireworks3.6 acresIdaho Falls DistrictBLKFT BTMS
10 July 2005Equipment and vehicle use10 acresIdaho Falls DistrictLIBERTY
10 July 1998Naturalunder an acreIdaho Falls DistrictTILDEN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bingham County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Rockford: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, 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, ConstructionPast Producer
Gold Point and Eagle Bend PlacerGoldPast ProducerPlacer
Welch GroundGoldPast Producer

Every working recorded in Bingham County

Storms near this place

7 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rockford in 7 storm reports between 2006 and 2025: 7 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
July 2024Thunderstorm WindRockford$8,000Numerous singles blown off residential roof along Idaho 39 in Rockford.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindRockford$2,000A large pine tree uprooted and down on a fence one mile east of Rockford.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindRockford$1,000A large tree downed north of Rockford at intersection of W 200 N and N 1400 W.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindRockford$700Trees downed in the area of W 100 S and S 1000 W 3 miles east of Rockford.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindRockford-Idaho Power reported over 100 customers without power west of Rockford.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindRockford-Sixty mph wind gust 1 mile north northwest of Rockford.
March 2006Thunderstorm WindRockford-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Bingham 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
Thomas1.7 miles10
Liberty1.8 miles10
Rouse3.9 miles12
Aberdeen Junction4.1 miles12
Riverside5.3 miles12
Moreland5.4 miles12
Pingree6.1 miles12
Havens6.3 miles9

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 RockfordAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3939784The 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 374743. 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.