Sugar City

History

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.

Geography

Sugar City is located in northern Madison County. U.S. Route 20 runs along the western edge of the city, leading southwest to Rexburg and northeast to St. Anthony. Idaho State Highway 33 runs through the center of Sugar City, leading southwest to the center of Rexburg and east the same distance to Teton. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , of which , or 0.50%, are water.

Race & ethnicity

Largest nearby schools

• MADISON SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
  High · REXBURG · 1,278 students · 19.7:1 ratio
• MADISON JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL
  Middle · REXBURG · 1,247 students · 22.7:1 ratio
• MADISON MIDDLE SCHOOL
  Middle · REXBURG · 818 students · 21.5:1 ratio
• BURTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
  Elementary · REXBURG · 646 students · 23.1:1 ratio
• SUGAR-SALEM HIGH SCHOOL
  High · SUGAR CITY · 565 students · 20.2:1 ratio
• LINCOLN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
  Elementary · REXBURG · 394 students · 21.9:1 ratio
• SUGAR-SALEM JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL
  Middle · SUGAR CITY · 387 students · 17.6:1 ratio
• KENNEDY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
  Elementary · REXBURG · 351 students · 19.5:1 ratio