Bacon, Idaho

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 2004. It stands in the Council census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83612. It stands on Goodrich Creek. The Survey maps it on the Goodrich quadrangle.

Bacon within Adams County

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.

1955 USGS Baker quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1957 USGS Cambridge quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1959 USGS Baker quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1980 USGS McCall quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
2004 USGS Goodrich quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

12 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Bacon between 1994 and 2014, burning about 2,947 acres in total. 8 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	8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2

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
2 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8.5 acres	Payette National Forest	BACON
7 August 2008	Natural	under an acre	Payette National Forest	DUMP
7 August 1998	Natural	under an acre	Payette National Forest	SCOTCH
7 August 1998	Natural	under an acre	Payette National Forest	GOODRICH
4 August 2000	Natural	2,732 acres	Payette National Forest	GOODRICH
11 August 2014	Natural	11 acres	Payette National Forest	STIRRUP RIDGE
11 August 1994	Natural	1.0 acres	Payette National Forest	JOHNSON CR
4 July 2006	Natural	31 acres	Payette National Forest	GOODRICH ROAD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Adams County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Bacon: 1 unknown, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Copper, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
	Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
	Lucky Star Mine	Copper	Unknown

Every working recorded in Adams 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Goodrich	1.3 miles	11
Alpine	4.1 miles	13
Mesa	5.2 miles	14
Indian Valley	8.1 miles	13
Council	8.7 miles	14
Hoover	9.8 miles	14
Hillsdale (historical)	10.8 miles	13
Fruitvale	13.6 miles	14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 399436. 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.