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.
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
City of RocksNational Historic Landmark · listed 1966
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 11 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1954 USGS Pocatello quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Pocatello quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1968 USGS Almo quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1993 USGS Oakley quadrangle1:100000
- 2001 USGS Almo quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
7 since 2000Regional 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 4 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 September 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.5 acres | Idaho Falls District | CIRCLE C |
| 8 August 2012 | Natural | 4.6 acres | Idaho Falls District | CLIFF HOLLOW |
| 22 August 2006 | Equipment and vehicle use | 120 acres | Idaho Falls District | CASTLE ROAD |
| 30 July 2016 | Natural | under an acre | Idaho Falls District | BIG SMOKEY |
| 21 July 2014 | Natural | under an acre | Idaho Falls District | WOMACK CANYON |
| 17 July 2000 | Natural | 2.0 acres | Twin Falls District | CITYROCKS1 |
| 12 April 2000 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 155 acres | Twin Falls District | NARROWS |
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 17 shownRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Almo Basin-Circle Creek #2 | REE, Titanium, Iron, Garnet, Zirconium | Unknown | ||
| Almo Basin-Circle Creek #3 | REE, Titanium, Garnet, Iron | Unknown | ||
| Almo Basin-Edwards Creek | REE, Zirconium, Titanium, Garnet, Iron | Unknown | ||
| Almo Basin-Raft River #3 | Garnet, Iron, Zirconium, Titanium, REE | Unknown | ||
| Brooks Prospect | Beryllium, Thorium, Uranium | Occurrence | ||
| City of Rocks Uranium Deposit | Uranium, REE, Thorium | Occurrence | Magnetite | |
| City of Rocks Uranium Placer Deposit | Uranium | Prospect | Placer | |
| Idaho Queen #1 | Beryllium, Uranium, Thorium | Occurrence | ||
| Almo Basin-Circle Creek #1 | REE, Titanium, Iron, Garnet | Unknown | ||
| Almo Basin-Graham Creek | REE, Titanium, Iron, Garnet | Unknown |
Storms near this place
10 since 1996Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Almo | - | A 60 mph wind gust measured near Almo near intersection of Idaho 77 and Narrows Rd. |
| May 2023 | Tornado (EF0) | Almo | - | Tornado photographed east of Almo. No damage occurred as it was in open fields. |
| September 2019 | Hail | Almo | - | A spotter measured 1.25 inch hail 12 miles southeast of Almo. |
| May 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Almo | - | The Goose Creek RAWS site measured a 73 mph wind gust. |
| June 2015 | Hail | Almo | - | Trained spotter measured ping pong size hail southeast of Almo. |
| August 2014 | Heavy Rain | Almo | - | 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 2009 | Flash Flood | Almo | - | Birch Creek came out of its banks flooding and closing a local road northeast of Almo. |
| August 1997 | Hail | Almo | - | Thunderstorm produced dime-size hail and 0.50 inch of rain. |
| May 1996 | Hail | Almo | - | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Heavy Rain | Almo | - | no account filed |
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.
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 Almo | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q4733860 | The 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.




