Bengoechea Place, Idaho

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1989. It stands in the Grand View census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83604. The Survey maps it on the Buster Butte quadrangle.

Bengoechea Place within Owyhee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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 Twin Falls quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Twin Falls quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1979 USGS Buster Butte quadrangle1:24000
1989 USGS Sheep Creek quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

6 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Bengoechea Place between 1999 and 2019, burning about 550 acres in total. 3 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	3
Debris and open burning	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
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
10 September 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Boise District	TIN
9 August 2005	Natural	under an acre	Boise District	MP28HWY51
6 August 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Boise District	MM31 HIWAY 51
5 August 1999	Natural	366 acres	Boise District	MERE STATI
22 July 2019	Natural	182 acres	Boise District	MARYS
9 October 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Boise District	MP26HWY51

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Owyhee 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
Dans Place	2.4 miles	7
Tindall (historical)	3.2 miles	7
James Place	4.1 miles	7
Grasmere	5.3 miles	7
Frost Place	9.2 miles	7
Dickens Place	12.6 miles	7
Wickahoney	12.9 miles	7
China Hat	14.8 miles	7

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.

Wikidata item Q122553620

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 396103. 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.