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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.

Troy within Latah County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Troy 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.

YearPeople Change
2010862
2020890+28 (+3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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

24 since 1993

Regional 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/undetermined8
Natural7
Debris and open burning7
Equipment and vehicle use1
Fireworks1

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
6 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsFELTON CREEK
27 September 2020Fireworksunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsORCHARD LOOP
27 September 1993Debris and open burning5.0 acresIdaho Department of LandsSPRING VALLEY CR
24 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIdaho Department of LandsCABIN
18 September 1996Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresIdaho Department of LandsRANDALL FLAT
17 September 1998Naturalunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsSPENCE ROAD #2
17 September 1998Natural4.0 acresIdaho Department of LandsSPENCE ROAD
15 September 2000Debris and open burning2.0 acresIdaho Department of LandsBURNT RIDGE GRASS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Latah County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 18 shown

Regional 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Benson Clay DepositFire Clay (Refractory), KaolinPast Producer1913
East Moscow Mountain ProspectQuartzOccurrence
Gemmill ProspectCopper, Gold, SilverOccurrenceBornite, Chalcocite, Chalcopyrite, Covellite
Jensen PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Lt-106 PitStonePast Producer
McKeehan Clay MineKaolin, Fire Clay (Refractory)Past ProducerSurface
Moscow Clay PitFire Clay (Refractory)Past ProducerClay
O.K. OlsonSilver, Gold, CopperOccurrenceBornite, Chalcopyrite
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Latah County

Storms near this place

2 since 1999

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
February 1999Flash FloodTroy$1,000,000A combination of rapid snowmelt and heavy rain caused small streams to flood and roadways to pool with water especially across southern Latah County.
January 2003Heavy RainTroy$50,000Up 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.

Every storm recorded in Latah 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
Howell2.5 miles11
Nora4.0 miles11
Cornwall5.4 miles11
Joel6.0 miles13
Bovard (historical)6.1 miles11
Lenville7.8 miles11
Stanford9.4 miles11
Yale (historical)9.5 miles11

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 TroyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1518302The 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.