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Ucon, Idaho

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1948 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Ucon census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83401. The Survey maps it on the Ucon quadrangle. 1,160 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,810 feet above sea level.

Ucon within Bonneville County

Population over time

2 figures

Ucon grew from 1,108 to 1,160 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
20101,108
20201,160+52 (+5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

3 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Ucon between 2010 and 2013, burning about 5 acres in total. None 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/undetermined2
Recreation and ceremony1

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
8 August 2010Recreation and ceremony2.1 acresIdaho Falls DistrictRIVER ROAD
9 July 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIdaho Falls DistrictPANORAMA
1 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresIdaho Falls DistrictYELLOW

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bonneville County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Ucon: 8 producers, 2 past producers. 8 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, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel Pit, Bonneville CoSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel Pit, Bonneville CoSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel Pit, Bonneville CoSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel Pit, Id Hwy DptSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Tyler PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Bonneville County

Storms near this place

11 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ucon in 11 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 4 hail, 4 flood, 2 thunderstorm wind, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
February 2017FloodUcon$250,000Extensive snow melt with warmer temperatures caused extensive sheet flooding throughout the county mainly resulting in flooded fields, damaged roadways and extensive basement flooding.
March 2017FloodUcon$40,000Sheet flooding continued to cause road and some property damage mainly in early March due to snow melt.
May 2017FloodUcon$14,000Minor flooding continued in May with some damage to agricultural due to field flooding and recreation facilities. Levee repair was conducted to mitigate flooding problems.
June 2017FloodUcon$8,000Very minor flooding continue early in the month with damage to agricultural fields along with levee repair conducted. Snake River Road in the Heise area closed on the 15th due to flooding.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindUcon$500A 2 to 3 foot diameter tree uprooted near Ucon.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindUcon$300Tree downed destroying a fence along East 97th North southwest of Ucon.
July 2025LightningUcon$100Rocky Mountain Power reported a power outage due to lightning strike off of N 55th E near US 26 in Ucon.
June 2004HailUcon-Nickel sized hail covered highway 20 near Ucon causing traffic to be stopped.
September 2000HailUcon-no account filed
May 1996HailUcon-no account filed
May 1996HailUcon-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Bonneville 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
Coltman3.0 miles14
Beachs Corner3.7 miles12
Milo4.4 miles12
Orvin5.0 miles14
Payne5.0 miles14
Iona5.1 miles12
Lincoln5.7 miles12
Osgood7.6 miles14

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 UconAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1516554The 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 398289. 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.