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Artesian City, Idaho

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1992. It lies in ZIP code area 83344. The Survey maps it on the Murtaugh quadrangle. It stands 4,236 feet above sea level.

Artesian City within Twin Falls County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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

25 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Artesian City between 1992 and 2017, burning about 385 acres in total. 18 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
Natural18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Other causes1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
13 September 1996Natural5.0 acresTwin Falls DistrictMTNMEADOW2
1 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined9.6 acresIdaho Falls DistrictARTESIAN
6 August 2010Natural22 acresIdaho Falls DistrictBUCKHORN
6 August 2009Natural4.6 acresIdaho Falls DistrictARTESIAN
6 August 2009Naturalunder an acreIdaho Falls DistrictMOUNTAIN MEADOW
5 August 2011Naturalunder an acreIdaho Falls DistrictBUCKHORN
5 August 2009Naturalunder an acreIdaho Falls DistrictBUCKHORN
3 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.0 acresIdaho Falls DistrictROCK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Twin Falls County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Artesian City: 11 occurrences, 1 unknown, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Geothermal, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Lead. 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
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Unnamed LocationLeadOccurrence
Artesian CityGeothermalProspect
Geothermal LocationGeothermalOccurrence
Geothermal LocationGeothermalOccurrence
Geothermal LocationGeothermalOccurrence
Geothermal LocationGeothermalOccurrence
Geothermal LocationGeothermalOccurrence
Geothermal LocationGeothermalOccurrence
Geothermal LocationGeothermalOccurrence

Every working recorded in Twin Falls 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
Murtaugh5.2 miles8
Rock Creek7.7 miles9
Bickel (historical)8.1 miles8
Striker8.6 miles9
Milner10.1 miles7
Bills10.3 miles8
Hansen10.8 miles8
Kimberly13.5 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 Artesian CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q117261547The 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 396053. 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.