Troy, Idaho
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Troy-Juliaetta-Kendrick census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83871. It stands on Big Meadow Creek. The Survey maps it on the Troy quadrangle. 890 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,487 feet above sea level.
On record in Troy
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 6 records
Axel Bohman Houselisted 2011
Ole Bohman Houselisted 2013
Harry and Fern Campbell Houselisted 2018
Hotel Rietmannlisted 2001
Troy Downtown Historic Districtlisted 2010
Troy Hospitallisted 2011
Population over time
2 figuresTroy grew from 862 to 890 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 | 862 | |
| 2020 | 890 | +28 (+3%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 11 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 Pullman quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Pullman quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1960 USGS Troy quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Moscow quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1981 USGS Potlatch quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
24 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Troy between 1993 and 2020, burning about 86 acres in total. 7 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8 |
| Natural | 7 |
| Debris and open burning | 7 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Fireworks | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Idaho Department of Lands | FELTON CREEK |
| 27 September 2020 | Fireworks | under an acre | Idaho Department of Lands | ORCHARD LOOP |
| 27 September 1993 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Idaho Department of Lands | SPRING VALLEY CR |
| 24 September 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Idaho Department of Lands | CABIN |
| 18 September 1996 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5.0 acres | Idaho Department of Lands | RANDALL FLAT |
| 17 September 1998 | Natural | under an acre | Idaho Department of Lands | SPENCE ROAD #2 |
| 17 September 1998 | Natural | 4.0 acres | Idaho Department of Lands | SPENCE ROAD |
| 15 September 2000 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Idaho Department of Lands | BURNT RIDGE GRASS |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 18 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 18 workings within 5 miles of Troy: 9 past producers, 4 producers, 3 occurrences, 2 unknowns. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Fire Clay (Refractory), Quartz. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Benson Clay Deposit | Fire Clay (Refractory), Kaolin | Past Producer | 1913 | |
| East Moscow Mountain Prospect | Quartz | Occurrence | ||
| Gemmill Prospect | Copper, Gold, Silver | Occurrence | Bornite, Chalcocite, Chalcopyrite, Covellite | |
| Jensen Pit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Lt-106 Pit | Stone | Past Producer | ||
| McKeehan Clay Mine | Kaolin, Fire Clay (Refractory) | Past Producer | Surface | |
| Moscow Clay Pit | Fire Clay (Refractory) | Past Producer | Clay | |
| O.K. Olson | Silver, Gold, Copper | Occurrence | Bornite, Chalcopyrite | |
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
2 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Troy in 2 storm reports between 1999 and 2003: 1 flash flood, 1 heavy rain. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 1999 | Flash Flood | Troy | $1,000,000 | A combination of rapid snowmelt and heavy rain caused small streams to flood and roadways to pool with water especially across southern Latah County. |
| January 2003 | Heavy Rain | Troy | $50,000 | Up to 3 inches of heavy rain caused a cottonwood tree to fall and crush a Ford Pickup truck and cause a small fire. Power was also out for 4 hours for about 100 residents. The rain also caused minor flooding in the Community Park and the mobile park both in Troy and Bovill. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Howell | 2.5 miles | 11 | |
| Nora | 4.0 miles | 11 | |
| Cornwall | 5.4 miles | 11 | |
| Joel | 6.0 miles | 13 | |
| Bovard (historical) | 6.1 miles | 11 | |
| Lenville | 7.8 miles | 11 | |
| Stanford | 9.4 miles | 11 | |
| Yale (historical) | 9.5 miles | 11 |
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 Troy | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1518302 | 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 400145. 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.




