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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.

Sugar City within Madison County

Population over time

2 figures

Sugar 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.

YearPeople Change
20101,514
20201,715+201 (+13%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

3 since 1994

Regional 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 burning2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
26 June 1994Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresIdaho Falls DistrictHENRY'S #4
30 May 1994Debris and open burning39 acresIdaho Falls DistrictHENRY'S 3
23 April 2012Debris and open burning62 acresIdaho Falls DistrictHENRYS FORK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Madison County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 12 shown

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Garrett PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Parker Pit and PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Madison County

Storms near this place

16 since 1996

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2024Thunderstorm WindSugar City$23,000Three power poles snapped off along E 2000 N. Photos received via social media.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindSugar City$17,000Multiple large trees snapped off at a residence including two pines estimated at over 2 feet in diameter. Power poles snapped off at base.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindSugar City$5,000Sugar City mesonet measured a 72 mph wind gust. A house was damaged from a falling tree with powerlines on branches.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindSugar City$5,000Trained spotter reported shingles blowing off of a roof 5 miles west of Clementsville.
September 2025Thunderstorm WindSugar City$1,500Several reports of large tree limbs down from thunderstorm outflow winds with a fence also damaged.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindSugar City$1,000Numerous tree limbs down on Country Rd.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindSugar City-Rocky Mountain Power reports over 160 customers without power southwest of Teton due to thunderstorm winds.
May 2019Funnel CloudSugar City-Funnel cloud photographed from Sugar City.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindSugar City-Sugar City mesonet site recorded 58 mph wind gust.
October 2016Thunderstorm WindSugar City-A 60 mph wind gust measured at Sugar City mesonet site.
August 2010Thunderstorm WindSugar City-Sixty-nine mph wind gust at Sugar City.
August 2004Thunderstorm WindSugar City-no account filed
April 2002Thunderstorm WindSugar City-no account filed
August 1997HailSugar City-no account filed
June 1996HailSugar City-no account filed
June 1996HailSugar City-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Madison 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
Hart0.9 miles10
Salem1.3 miles10
Jolley2.6 miles13
Rexburg3.9 miles13
Hibbard4.9 miles13
Hinckley5.9 miles13
Parkinson6.1 miles9
Moody6.5 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 Sugar CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1516733The 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.