BlockBesslen, Idaho
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1971. It stands in the Richfield census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83324. The Survey maps it on the Dietrich Butte quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
3 surveys from 7 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.
- 1955 USGS Twin Falls quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Twin Falls quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1971 USGS Dietrich Butte quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
28 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Besslen between 1992 and 2015, burning about 9,999 acres in total. 5 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 |
|---|---|
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 15 |
| Natural | 5 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 1996 | Debris and open burning | 70 acres | Twin Falls District | STARELAKE2 |
| 3 September 1995 | Natural | 519 acres | Twin Falls District | DIETRICHBT |
| 14 September 1998 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 1.0 acres | Twin Falls District | UPRRMP313S |
| 6 August 2010 | Natural | 2,181 acres | Twin Falls District | STAR LAKE |
| 22 August 2013 | Natural | 1,061 acres | Twin Falls District | DIETRICH BUTTE |
| 2 August 2001 | Equipment and vehicle use | 8.0 acres | Twin Falls District | DIETRICHBT |
| 14 August 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Twin Falls District | OWINZA MM51 |
| 11 August 2007 | Equipment and vehicle use | 63 acres | Twin Falls District | BESSLEN |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
1 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Besslen in 1 storm report in 2006: 1 hail. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 2006 | Hail | Besslen | - | Nickel sized hail 12 miles north of Shoshone. |
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.
| Wikidata item Q122566562 | 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 396107. 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.
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.