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Star, Idaho

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Eagle census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83669. The Survey maps it on the Star quadrangle. 11,117 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,461 feet above sea level.

Star within Ada County

On record in Star

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

Star grew from 5,793 to 11,117 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
20105,793
202011,117+5,324 (+92%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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

14 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Star between 1994 and 2019, burning about 559 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Firearms and explosives use2
Debris and open burning1
Smoking1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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 August 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresBoise DistrictRA7 CANYON CO
30 August 2011Equipment and vehicle use115 acresBoise DistrictDEEP CANYON
3 August 2014Firearms and explosives use19 acresBoise DistrictMM4 HWY16
24 August 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresBoise DistrictFIREBIRD
5 July 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined21 acresBoise DistrictRA6 CANYON CO
30 July 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined13 acresBoise DistrictFIREBIRD
28 July 2000Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreBoise DistrictMP4 HWY16
22 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresBoise DistrictRA 2 ADA CO

Every fire recorded in Ada County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Star: 9 past producers, 1 unknown, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Manganese. 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
Gold Dollar Mineral ClaimsManganeseOccurrence
Allen PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Ada County

Storms near this place

4 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Star in 4 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 2 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 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
April 1995Thunderstorm WindStar$500,000no account filed
May 2023Tornado (EF0)Star-Several photos of a land spout near Highway 16 and Broken Arrow Lane.
March 2016HailStar-A NWS employee reported one inch hail at Star, Idaho.
May 2015HailStar-Largest hail 1.5 inches and smallest about a penny at the intersection of Floating Feather Road and Pollard Lane. Reported on social media.

Every storm recorded in Ada 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
Sonna6.0 miles15
Eagle7.4 miles17
Meridian7.7 miles15
Cloverdale9.8 miles16
Beatty9.9 miles16
Ustick10.0 miles17
Perkins13.1 miles16
Collister13.2 miles18

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 StarAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1516815The 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 398181. 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.