While the final numbers have yet to be tabulated, the preliminary indication is that last week’s Park County Fair had a little bit stronger turnout than last year — which was itself a good year.

“I think overall our numbers are going to be just a touch up,” said Park County Buildings and Grounds Superintendent Mike Garza. “But I don’t think it’s going to be anything like, ‘Wow, we really pumped some numbers.’”

More tickets were sold for the carnival run by Carnival Midway Attractions, attendance at Saturday’s ever-popular Demolition Derby was up from last year and there was “a great turnout” for Thursday night’s headlining concert by Ned LeDoux and Chancey Williams and the Younger Brothers Band, Garza said.

Ticket sales for Friday’s jousting performance by the Knights of Valour were “not super awesome,” Garza said, so “we definitely saw a loss on that, but everything else was pretty ... steady, pretty busy.”

That included more animals being sold at this year’s Junior Livestock Sale for a record amount.

Other than a couple relatively minor incidents where police were summoned, “everything was nice and smooth and weather kind of helped us and beer sales were up,” Garza said. “It was just a good overall event.”

From a law enforcement perspective, the fair “went pretty doggone well,” said Powell Police Chief Roy Eckerdt.

A couple of people were arrested for driving while under the influence during fair week, and a woman was arrested for domestic battery, but those incidents were unrelated to the fair.

Logs show one man was cited for disorderly conduct at the beer garden on Saturday afternoon; a caller reported that the man had used obscene language and was involved in an altercation. While officers were escorting the man from the premises, he continued to use obscene language, dispatch logs say, but he was ultimately released to a relative rather than being taken to jail.

Similarly, a 38-year-old man was arrested on an outstanding municipal court warrant Saturday night, but he was able to post bond and was released from police custody without ever going to jail.

“Nothing exciting,” said a pleased Eckerdt.

There were no apparent calls involving carnival workers; Chief Eckerdt said Carnival Midway Attractions tries to run a pretty tight ship.

“The carnival manager tells the employees that are coming along what the expectations are and what they can expect when they’re in Powell,” Eckerdt said. “And he flat-out tells them that, ‘If you’re involved in things that you shouldn’t be or carrying things you shouldn’t be, such as illicit substances, Powell PD will find it and they will take you to jail — and we’ll leave you there.’”

Other calls for service from the fairgrounds tended to be low-key, such as a complaint of cars speeding near the grounds and of two dogs being left in a hot vehicle (the dogs were OK, police found, and the owner was contacted).

There were a couple reports of theft. For instance, a chain was reported to have been stolen from the back of a truck Friday morning. However, “after the owner posted on Facebook, the chain magically reappeared,” dispatch logs say.

On the whole, the week was relatively quiet for what’s typically one of the Powell Police Department’s busiest times of the year.

Perhaps as an example of how well-behaved Park County residents were at this year’s fair, a small child found a $1 bill on the ground and — instead of keeping it for herself — turned it over to a police officer. He, in turn, put the money in the department’s lost and found.

It was Garza’s first year of overseeing the fair, doing so alongside Park County Events Administrator Audra Jewell. Garza said event superintendents and other workers were cordial and very willing to work with the “newbie” — even when he made mistakes; Garza said he learned things that will help the fair go more smoothly next year, particularly for staff.

On Monday, he and Jewell were busy cleaning up from the fair — after each putting in more than 200 hours of work over the past two weeks, Garza said.

“To say we’re dragging a bit is actually putting a positive spin on it,” he quipped.