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Basalt, Idaho

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Firth census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83218. The Survey maps it on the Firth quadrangle. 357 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,590 feet above sea level.

Basalt within Bingham County

Population over time

2 figures

Basalt fell from 394 to 357 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010394
2020357-37 (-9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 10 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

14 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Basalt between 1994 and 2020, burning about 66 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 2 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/undetermined5
Equipment and vehicle use3
Arson/incendiarism2
Natural2
Debris and open burning1
Fireworks1

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
5 August 2009Naturalunder an acreIdaho Falls DistrictHELLS HALF ACRE
20 August 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreIdaho Falls DistrictHAY BALE
12 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIdaho Falls District105 MILE
7 July 2005Equipment and vehicle use1.2 acresIdaho Falls District101
4 July 2003Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresIdaho Falls DistrictISLAND
4 July 2003Fireworks1.0 acresIdaho Falls DistrictCEDAR PT
3 July 1996Equipment and vehicle use10 acresIdaho Falls DistrictRISING RVR
24 July 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIdaho Falls DistrictROADSIDE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bingham County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Basalt: 7 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Bingham County

Storms near this place

2 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Basalt in 2 storm reports between 2003 and 2010: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning. 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
June 2010LightningBasalt$4,000A lightning strike hit the Basalt water system destroying computer equipment and leaving 600 people without water for 2 hours.
July 2003Thunderstorm WindBasalt-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Bingham 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
Goshen Junction0.9 miles10
Firth1.2 miles10
Kimball4.1 miles10
Goshen4.3 miles11
Shelley5.0 miles13
Mitchell6.3 miles13
Wapello6.8 miles13
Woodville7.1 miles11

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 BasaltAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1522550The 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 397411. 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.