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.
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
- Proctor Mountain Ski Liftlisted 1980
Population over time
2 figuresSun 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,406 | |
| 2020 | 1,783 | +377 (+27%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 17 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.
- 1895 USGS Hailey quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1897 USGS Hailey quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1955 USGS Hailey quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1959 USGS Hailey quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Hailey quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Sun Valley quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1992 USGS Sun Valley quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
46 since 1992Regional 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 ceremony | 19 |
| Natural | 13 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 5 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Other causes | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 September 2000 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Sawtooth National Forest | GREYHAWK |
| 24 September 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Sawtooth National Forest | COLLEGE |
| 16 September 1998 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Sawtooth National Forest | UNCLE JOHNS |
| 13 September 2013 | Natural | under an acre | Sawtooth National Forest | COTTONWOOD |
| 13 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Twin Falls District | BOUNDARY CG |
| 25 August 2001 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Sawtooth National Forest | BROADWAY |
| 21 August 2011 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Sawtooth National Forest | CORRAL CREEK |
| 21 August 1995 | Natural | under an acre | Sawtooth National Forest | PARKER |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 57 shownRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bald Eagle Mine | Copper, Silver, Lead, Gold | Unknown | ||
| Bald Eagle Prospect | Gold, Copper, Silver, Lead | Occurrence | Chalcopyrite, Galena, Sphalerite | |
| Baltimore Mine | Zinc, Silver, Lead, Gold, Copper | Past Producer | ||
| Elkhorn | Lead, Zinc, Silver, Gold | Past Producer | ||
| Elkhorn Mine | Silver, Gold, Lead | Past Producer | 1879 | |
| Evelyn Prospect | Coal, Lead | Occurrence | Sedimentary | |
| Evelyn Prospect | Lead, Coal | Unknown | ||
| Homestake Prospect | Copper, Zinc, Antimony, Silver, Lead | Unknown | ||
| Ida Harlan | Stone, Crushed/Broken, Zinc, Silver, Lead, Quartz | Unknown | ||
| Ida Harlan Prospect | Silver, Zinc, Lead | Occurrence | Vein |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ketchum | 1.3 miles | 17 | |
| Elkhorn Village | 1.6 miles | 17 | |
| Triumph | 6.3 miles | 17 | |
| Gimlet | 6.4 miles | 16 | |
| Barite | 9.8 miles | 16 | |
| Clarendon Hot Springs | 10.1 miles | 17 | |
| Cathedral Pines | 10.8 miles | 16 | |
| Easley Hot Springs | 11.7 miles | 16 |
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 Valley | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q955969 | 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 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.






