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Almo, Idaho

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 2001. It stands in the Albion census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83312. It stands on Graham Creek. The Survey maps it on the Almo quadrangle. It stands 5,397 feet above sea level.

Almo within Cassia County

On record in Almo

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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

7 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Almo between 2000 and 2016, burning about 284 acres in total. 4 started naturally. None was 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
Natural4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
29 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresIdaho Falls DistrictCIRCLE C
8 August 2012Natural4.6 acresIdaho Falls DistrictCLIFF HOLLOW
22 August 2006Equipment and vehicle use120 acresIdaho Falls DistrictCASTLE ROAD
30 July 2016Naturalunder an acreIdaho Falls DistrictBIG SMOKEY
21 July 2014Naturalunder an acreIdaho Falls DistrictWOMACK CANYON
17 July 2000Natural2.0 acresTwin Falls DistrictCITYROCKS1
12 April 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined155 acresTwin Falls DistrictNARROWS

Every fire recorded in Cassia County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 17 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Almo: 11 unknowns, 5 occurrences, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: REE, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Beryllium, Titanium, Iron, Garnet. 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
Almo Basin-Circle Creek #2REE, Titanium, Iron, Garnet, ZirconiumUnknown
Almo Basin-Circle Creek #3REE, Titanium, Garnet, IronUnknown
Almo Basin-Edwards CreekREE, Zirconium, Titanium, Garnet, IronUnknown
Almo Basin-Raft River #3Garnet, Iron, Zirconium, Titanium, REEUnknown
Brooks ProspectBeryllium, Thorium, UraniumOccurrence
City of Rocks Uranium DepositUranium, REE, ThoriumOccurrenceMagnetite
City of Rocks Uranium Placer DepositUraniumProspectPlacer
Idaho Queen #1Beryllium, Uranium, ThoriumOccurrence
Almo Basin-Circle Creek #1REE, Titanium, Iron, GarnetUnknown
Almo Basin-Graham CreekREE, Titanium, Iron, GarnetUnknown

Every working recorded in Cassia County

Storms near this place

10 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Almo in 10 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 4 hail, 2 heavy rain, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. 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 2025Thunderstorm WindAlmo-A 60 mph wind gust measured near Almo near intersection of Idaho 77 and Narrows Rd.
May 2023Tornado (EF0)Almo-Tornado photographed east of Almo. No damage occurred as it was in open fields.
September 2019HailAlmo-A spotter measured 1.25 inch hail 12 miles southeast of Almo.
May 2018Thunderstorm WindAlmo-The Goose Creek RAWS site measured a 73 mph wind gust.
June 2015HailAlmo-Trained spotter measured ping pong size hail southeast of Almo.
August 2014Heavy RainAlmo-Cassia County was declared a natural disaster area by the USDA due to barley crop loss in August from heavy rains. Eastern Idaho lost about 64 million dollars of barley crops due to the rains with a portion of that occurring in Cassia County.
July 2009Flash FloodAlmo-Birch Creek came out of its banks flooding and closing a local road northeast of Almo.
August 1997HailAlmo-Thunderstorm produced dime-size hail and 0.50 inch of rain.
May 1996HailAlmo-no account filed
July 1996Heavy RainAlmo-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cassia 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
Elba10.9 miles9
Basin12.8 miles10
Connor14.3 miles10
Bridge15.6 miles8
Conant15.6 miles9
Oakley16.5 miles10
Kelso17.1 miles9
Keogh18.0 miles8

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on AlmoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4733860The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 376562. 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.