Tetonia, Idaho
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Tetonia census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83452. It stands on Middle Leigh Creek. The Survey maps it on the Tetonia quadrangle. 308 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 6,047 feet above sea level.
On record in Tetonia
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
- Hollingshead Homesteadlisted 2006
Population over time
2 figuresTetonia grew from 269 to 308 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 | 269 | |
| 2020 | 308 | +39 (+14%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 10 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.
- 1955 USGS Driggs quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Driggs quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Driggs quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Tetonia quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1988 USGS Rexburg quadrangle1:100000
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 22 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 22 workings within 5 miles of Tetonia: 22 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Pumice, Scandium. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gravel Pit | Scandium | Past Producer | ||
| Pumice Deposit | Pumice | Past Producer | Pumice | |
| Pumice Deposit | Pumice | Past Producer | Pumice | |
| Pumice Deposit | Pumice | Past Producer | Pumice | |
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
18 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tetonia in 18 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 9 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 2 funnel cloud, 1 lightning. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 2013 | Lightning | Tetonia | $20,000 | Lightning struck a tree that was connected to a barbed wire fence on a ranch in Tetonia. The current from the fence killed 15 cattle lined up next to the fence. Cost to the rancher was between 15 and 20 thousand dollars. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tetonia | $10,000 | Three power poles damaged with one snapped off halfway up. Multiple large trees were downed. |
| May 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tetonia | $3,000 | A large section of siding was blown off residence near Totonia with a private weather station recording a 60 mph wind gust. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tetonia | $3,000 | Three large trees, one cottonwood and two aspens, blown down in driveway along N 1000 E south of E 7000 N. One tree 16 inches in diameter. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tetonia | $2,000 | Roof shingles peeled up on a home near N 3000 W and W 4000 N. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tetonia | $1,500 | Four foot by 4 foot tarp ripped in half. Phone line taken off a residence with greenhouse damage at Tetonia elementary school. |
| July 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tetonia | $1,000 | A tree was downed on a power line near Tetonia causing a power outage in the area. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tetonia | $1,000 | A wood and sheet metal horse shed with ground anchors 4 feet deep pulled out of the ground in the area of N 4500 W and 6000 N. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tetonia | $1,000 | A power pole was damaged and leaning along E 4000 N. |
| July 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Tetonia | - | Two-hundred sixteen customers without power in the Tetonia area reported by Fall River Electric Cooperative. |
| June 2022 | Funnel Cloud | Tetonia | - | A funnel cloud photographed just north and northwest of Tetonia. |
| June 2022 | Funnel Cloud | Tetonia | - | A funnel cloud photographed west of Tetonia. |
| June 2015 | Hail | Tetonia | - | Large hail measuring 1.25 inches was recorded in Tetonia. |
| May 2014 | Hail | Tetonia | - | Tetonia received 1.75 inch hail from a severe thunderstorm. |
| September 2001 | Hail | Tetonia | - | no account filed |
| August 2000 | Hail | Tetonia | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Tetonia | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Hail | Tetonia | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Haden (historical) | 1.3 miles | 10 | |
| Cache | 1.8 miles | 10 | |
| Clawson | 2.9 miles | 10 | |
| Felt | 4.2 miles | 10 | |
| Twin Forks | 6.0 miles | 13 | |
| Driggs | 6.8 miles | 13 | |
| Two Forks | 7.1 miles | 13 | |
| Judkins | 7.4 miles | 9 |
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 Tetonia | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1511287 | 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 398229. 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.
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.




