Sugar City, Idaho
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Sugar City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83448. The Survey maps it on the Moody quadrangle. 1,715 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,895 feet above sea level.
Population over time
2 figuresSugar City grew from 1,514 to 1,715 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 | 1,514 | |
| 2020 | 1,715 | +201 (+13%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 9 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.
- 1951 USGS Moody quadrangle1:24000, 2 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
3 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Sugar City between 1994 and 2012, burning about 102 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 June 1994 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1.0 acres | Idaho Falls District | HENRY'S #4 |
| 30 May 1994 | Debris and open burning | 39 acres | Idaho Falls District | HENRY'S 3 |
| 23 April 2012 | Debris and open burning | 62 acres | Idaho Falls District | HENRYS FORK |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 12 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Sugar City: 7 producers, 4 past producers, 1 unknown. 7 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Garrett Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| 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 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Parker Pit and Plant | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
16 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sugar City in 16 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 12 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 funnel cloud. 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 | Sugar City | $23,000 | Three power poles snapped off along E 2000 N. Photos received via social media. |
| August 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sugar City | $17,000 | Multiple large trees snapped off at a residence including two pines estimated at over 2 feet in diameter. Power poles snapped off at base. |
| June 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sugar City | $5,000 | Sugar City mesonet measured a 72 mph wind gust. A house was damaged from a falling tree with powerlines on branches. |
| August 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sugar City | $5,000 | Trained spotter reported shingles blowing off of a roof 5 miles west of Clementsville. |
| September 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sugar City | $1,500 | Several reports of large tree limbs down from thunderstorm outflow winds with a fence also damaged. |
| August 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sugar City | $1,000 | Numerous tree limbs down on Country Rd. |
| August 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sugar City | - | Rocky Mountain Power reports over 160 customers without power southwest of Teton due to thunderstorm winds. |
| May 2019 | Funnel Cloud | Sugar City | - | Funnel cloud photographed from Sugar City. |
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sugar City | - | Sugar City mesonet site recorded 58 mph wind gust. |
| October 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sugar City | - | A 60 mph wind gust measured at Sugar City mesonet site. |
| August 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sugar City | - | Sixty-nine mph wind gust at Sugar City. |
| August 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sugar City | - | no account filed |
| April 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sugar City | - | no account filed |
| August 1997 | Hail | Sugar City | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Hail | Sugar City | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Hail | Sugar City | - | no account filed |
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 Sugar City | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1516733 | 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 397220. 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.




