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Wendell, Idaho

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1971. It stands in the Wendell census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83355. The Survey maps it on the Wendell quadrangle. 2,917 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,432 feet above sea level.

Wendell within Gooding County

On record in Wendell

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 2 records

Population over time

2 figures

Wendell grew from 2,782 to 2,917 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
20102,782
20202,917+135 (+5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

3 surveys from 7 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

22 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Wendell between 1992 and 2020, burning about 15,630 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 1 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
Equipment and vehicle use9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Fireworks3
Natural2
Firearms and explosives use1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Arson/incendiarism1

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 September 2004Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTwin Falls DistrictI 84 MM152
11 September 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined3,310 acresTwin Falls DistrictNWENDELL
1 September 2011Equipment and vehicle use4,982 acresTwin Falls DistrictHWY 46 MM 103
3 August 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTwin Falls DistrictHWY46MM4
18 August 2018Equipment and vehicle use2,273 acresTwin Falls DistrictNORTH WENDELL
10 August 2005Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresTwin Falls DistrictHWY 46 MM4
9 July 2005Natural98 acresTwin Falls DistrictDUMP
4 July 2008Fireworksunder an acreTwin Falls DistrictMM 2

Every fire recorded in Gooding County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Wendell: 1 producer. 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
Wendell Screening PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Gooding County

Storms near this place

6 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wendell in 6 storm reports between 2013 and 2022: 3 hail, 2 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 2022FloodWendell-The driveway was flooded and marble size hail was spotted on the patio.
June 2022HailWendell-A trained spotter reported hail of 1.25 inches near Hagerman, ID.
October 2019Thunderstorm WindWendell-Four power line poles were reported down on a county road.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindWendell-Social and local media reported trees down and over 1000 without power.
August 2014HailWendell-A trained spotter reported quarter sized hail.
August 2013HailWendell-Local media reported penny to nickel sized hail around the Wendell, Idaho area.

Every storm recorded in Gooding 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
Appleton4.1 miles11
Tuttle9.2 miles9
Hagerman10.6 miles10
Gooding11.3 miles7
Fuller12.3 miles8
Bliss16.7 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 WendellAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1522576The 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 398332. 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.