Bills, Idaho

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Kimberly census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83334. The Survey maps it on the Kimberly quadrangle.

Bills 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.

1955 USGS Twin Falls quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Twin Falls quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1964 USGS Kimberly quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1979 USGS Kimberly quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

11 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Bills between 1992 and 2020, burning about 206 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 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
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Debris and open burning	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Recreation and ceremony	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Arson/incendiarism	1
Natural	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
14 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Twin Falls District	OASIS
2 August 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Twin Falls District	OASIS
19 August 1997	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Twin Falls District	HANSENNE
14 August 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	156 acres	Twin Falls District	DEVILS
25 July 2005	Natural	35 acres	Twin Falls District	RA 8
17 July 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	1.8 acres	Twin Falls District	I84 MM181
15 July 1992	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Idaho Falls District	3600E
13 July 2020	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Twin Falls District	NORTH HANSEN BRIDGE

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 Bills: 7 past producers, 4 occurrences, 1 unknown, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Pumice, Volcanic Materials, Iron, Chromium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Eden Butte Cinder Deposit	Pumice, Volcanic Materials	Producer	Cinders
Snake River Placer Deposits	Gold, Iron, Chromium	Past Producer
Borrow Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Borrow Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Snake River Placers	Gold	Past Producer	1862
Snake River Placers	Gold	Past Producer	1862
Snake River Placers	Gold	Past Producer	1862
Unnamed Location	Gold	Occurrence

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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Hansen	0.8 miles	8
Bickel (historical)	4.0 miles	8
Striker	4.1 miles	9
Kimberly	4.2 miles	8
Rock Creek	7.0 miles	9
Murtaugh	7.1 miles	8
McMillan	7.2 miles	9
Twin Falls	9.5 miles	9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 396123. 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.