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photo by Karl Weatherly
Valley by the Numbers
compiled by Pat Murphy
Average snowfall, in inches, on the top of Baldy over the
past six years:
217 Inches that fell in the 2007-08 and 1976-77 ski
seasons, respectively:
232
Number of snow guns on Bald Mountain: 522
Maximum number of gallons of water each can spew per minute: 24
Number of snow guns on Dollar Mountain: 72
Number of traffic lights in Blaine County: 14
Number of books, videos and magazines in the Community Library: 125,000
Percentage of library funds received from donations, thrift store sales and Tour of Homes proceeds: 100
Years after the installation of Idaho’s first telephone (in Hailey in 1883) that cell phone service became available in the Wood River Valley: 110
Estimated number of hiking, biking and ski trail miles in the Sawtooth National Recreation Area, Ketchum Ranger District and Blaine County Recreation District combined: 1,466
Number of motor vehicles registered in Blaine County: 24,063
Number of motor vehicles registered in Blaine County in 1986: 16,407
Number of non-motorized horse trailers with bunks registered in 2005: 4
Head of sheep (not including lambs) that grazed in the greater Wood River Valley during the 2008 summer: 9,900
Average number that grazed the same area during World War I, when sheep supplied troops with woolen uniforms and mutton for food: 250,000
Percentage of felony cases prosecuted in Blaine County over the last six years that involved drug violations: 48
Former U.S. ambassadors (to Belgium, European Union and Eastern communist bloc countries) residing in the Wood River Valley: 3
People per square mile living in Blaine County in 1980 and 2007, respectively: 3.7 & 8
People per square mile living in Idaho in 2007: 17.7
Average persons per square mile nationwide, according to the 2000 census: 79.6
Idaho’s ranking by state in population density: 43
Newborns delivered at St. Luke’s Wood River Medical Center between January 1 and September 22, 2008: 233
Average births per month in that time: 25
Number of sets of twins delivered at St. Luke’s in 2007, setting a record: 5
Average annual snowfall, in inches, measured at the Ketchum ranger station and at Galena Summit in the past 30 years, respectively: 112 & 213
Yearly average between 1936 and 2006 at Chocolate Gulch, just north of Ketchum: 136
Average number of yearly visitors to the Wood River Valley: 230,000
Average number of visitors during July-August: 135,000
Number of gallons of aircraft fuel pumped into storage in 2007 by Friedman Memorial Airport for later sale: 1,390,399
Gallons stored for the same purpose in 2006: 1,905,486
