Sugar City, Idaho
| Sugar City, Idaho | |
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| City | |
 Location of Sugar City, Idaho |
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| Coordinates: 43°52′20″N 111°44′50″W / 43.87222°N 111.74722°WCoordinates: 43°52′20″N 111°44′50″W / 43.87222°N 111.74722°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Idaho |
| County | Madison |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | David Ogden |
| Area | |
| • Total | 1.79 sq mi (4.64 km2) |
| • Land | 1.78 sq mi (4.61 km2) |
| • Water | 0.01 sq mi (0.03 km2) |
| Elevation | 4,895 ft (1,492 m) |
| Population (2010) | |
| • Total | 1,514 |
| • Estimate (2012) | 1,469 |
| • Density | 850.6/sq mi (328.4/km2) |
| Time zone | Mountain (MST) (UTC-7) |
| • Summer (DST) | MDT (UTC-6) |
| ZIP code | 83448 |
| Area code(s) | 208 |
| FIPS code | 16-78040 |
| GNIS feature ID | 0397220 |
| Website | sugarcityidaho.gov |
Sugar City is a city in Madison County, Idaho, United States. The population was 1,514 at the 2010 census, up from 1,242 in 2000. It is part of the Rexburg Micropolitan Statistical Area.
Sugar City was a company town for the Fremont County Sugar Company, which was part of the Utah-Idaho Sugar Company, supporting a sugar beet processing factory built in 1903-1904. Since it was created to support the factory, construction workers and early factory families were housed in tents, leading to the nickname "Rag Town". By 1904, the town consisted of 35 houses, two stores, a hotel, an opera house, several boarding houses, two lumber yards, a meat market, and a schoolhouse. The first Mormon ward was the Sugar City Ward, with Bishop Mark Austin. One of his counselors was James Malone, a construction engineer for E. H. Dyer, who was not a Mormon.
In early years the factory had a labor shortage, leading to a local community of Nikkei—Japanese migrants and their descendants.
The city was flooded by the waters of the Teton Dam collapse on June 5, 1976.
Sugar City is located at 43°52′20″N 111°44′50″W / 43.87222°N 111.74722°W (43.872317, -111.747331), at an elevation of 4,895 feet (1,492 m) above sea level.
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