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Sun Valley, Idaho

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1895 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Ketchum census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83353. It lies near Penny Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Sun Valley quadrangle. 1,783 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,945 feet above sea level.

Sun Valley within Blaine County

On record in Sun Valley

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

Sun Valley grew from 1,406 to 1,783 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
20101,406
20201,783+377 (+27%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 17 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

46 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 46 fires within 5 miles of Sun Valley between 1992 and 2020, burning about 907 acres in total. 13 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
Recreation and ceremony19
Natural13
Equipment and vehicle use5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Smoking1
Other causes1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Debris and open burning1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
29 September 2000Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSawtooth National ForestGREYHAWK
24 September 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSawtooth National ForestCOLLEGE
16 September 1998Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSawtooth National ForestUNCLE JOHNS
13 September 2013Naturalunder an acreSawtooth National ForestCOTTONWOOD
13 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTwin Falls DistrictBOUNDARY CG
25 August 2001Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSawtooth National ForestBROADWAY
21 August 2011Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSawtooth National ForestCORRAL CREEK
21 August 1995Naturalunder an acreSawtooth National ForestPARKER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Blaine County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 57 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 57 workings within 5 miles of Sun Valley: 18 occurrences, 18 past producers, 15 unknowns, 6 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Lead, Silver, Gold, Zinc. 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
Bald Eagle MineCopper, Silver, Lead, GoldUnknown
Bald Eagle ProspectGold, Copper, Silver, LeadOccurrenceChalcopyrite, Galena, Sphalerite
Baltimore MineZinc, Silver, Lead, Gold, CopperPast Producer
ElkhornLead, Zinc, Silver, GoldPast Producer
Elkhorn MineSilver, Gold, LeadPast Producer1879
Evelyn ProspectCoal, LeadOccurrenceSedimentary
Evelyn ProspectLead, CoalUnknown
Homestake ProspectCopper, Zinc, Antimony, Silver, LeadUnknown
Ida HarlanStone, Crushed/Broken, Zinc, Silver, Lead, QuartzUnknown
Ida Harlan ProspectSilver, Zinc, LeadOccurrenceVein

Every working recorded in Blaine 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
Ketchum1.3 miles17
Elkhorn Village1.6 miles17
Triumph6.3 miles17
Gimlet6.4 miles16
Barite9.8 miles16
Clarendon Hot Springs10.1 miles17
Cathedral Pines10.8 miles16
Easley Hot Springs11.7 miles16

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 Sun ValleyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q955969The 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 398200. 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.