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Sweetwater, Idaho

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Nez Perce census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83540. It stands on Sweetwater Creek. The Survey maps it on the Sweetwater quadrangle. 155 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,096 feet above sea level.

Sweetwater within Nez Perce County

Population over time

2 figures

Sweetwater grew from 143 to 155 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
2010143
2020155+12 (+8%)

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

248 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 248 fires within 5 miles of Sweetwater between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,387 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 6 were 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
Fireworks88
Debris and open burning41
Equipment and vehicle use33
Missing data/not specified/undetermined22
Natural13
Smoking13
Other causes9
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Arson/incendiarism6
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Recreation and ceremony6
Railroad operations and maintenance4

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
9 September 2005Fireworksunder an acreNez Perce TribeOVERTHILL
7 September 2005Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreNez Perce TribeSWEETWATER
7 September 2002Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreNez Perce TribeCARVALLEY
7 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNez Perce TribePUMPKINFIR
7 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresNez Perce TribeBOYER
6 September 1995Natural80 acresNez Perce TribeLYLEGULCH
30 September 2011Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreNez Perce TribeROCKY TOP
30 September 2008Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNez Perce TribeSMOKEHOUSE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Nez Perce County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Sweetwater: 3 producers. All of them 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
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Nez Perce County

Storms near this place

2 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sweetwater in 2 storm reports between 2014 and 2022: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood. 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
June 2022FloodSweetwater$20,000Driveway washout reported to law enforcement for residence along us95.
August 2014Thunderstorm WindSweetwater$100A tree was blown down on MCatty Road. Heavy rain accompanied the storm causing small rocks and mud to flow onto Thunder Hill Road.

Every storm recorded in Nez Perce 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
Bundy2.0 miles9
Lapwai2.3 miles10
Webb2.9 miles9
Jacques3.5 miles9
Snow (historical)5.0 miles9
Spalding5.3 miles10
North Lapwai5.4 miles10
Joseph5.5 miles10

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 SweetwaterAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3978796The 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 398208. 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.