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Idaho Creek, Colorado

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1904 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Erie-Frederick census division. It lies in ZIP code area 80504. The Survey maps it on the Erie quadrangle.

Idaho Creek within Weld County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 22 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

393 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 393 fires within 5 miles of Idaho Creek between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,284 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 17 were 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined308
Debris and open burning19
Arson/incendiarism17
Smoking14
Recreation and ceremony12
Equipment and vehicle use8
Fireworks6
Natural6
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
5 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
5 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
5 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
30 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFrederick-Firestone Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
30 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
3 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFrederick-Firestone Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
28 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFrederick-Firestone Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Weld County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Idaho Creek: 6 occurrences, 6 producers, 2 past producers. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silver. 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
JacksonSilverPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Sand & GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Sand & GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
St VrainSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceSand and Gravel
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceGravel

Every working recorded in Weld County

Storms near this place

1 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Idaho Creek in 1 storm report in 2008: 1 hail. 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
May 2008HailIdaho Creek-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Weld 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
Jessum1.3 miles23
Rinn1.4 miles21
Puritan2.7 miles20
Plumbs2.9 miles22
Evanston4.1 miles20
Firestone4.1 miles20
Frederick4.3 miles20
Harney4.3 miles21

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 178736. 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.