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Black Pine, Idaho

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Holbrook census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83342. The Survey maps it on the Black Pine quadrangle.

Black Pine within Oneida County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 9 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

42 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 42 fires within 5 miles of Black Pine between 1992 and 2020, burning about 10,455 acres in total. 23 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
Natural23
Equipment and vehicle use9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Arson/incendiarism1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
8 September 2000Equipment and vehicle use25 acresIdaho Falls DistrictI84MP270
6 September 2003Naturalunder an acreIdaho Falls DistrictRESTSTOP
5 September 2001Naturalunder an acreIdaho Falls DistrictEASTSIDE1
5 September 2001Naturalunder an acreIdaho Falls DistrictEASTSIDE2
5 September 2001Naturalunder an acreIdaho Falls DistrictMIDDLE
5 September 2001Naturalunder an acreIdaho Falls DistrictWESTSIDE
3 September 2001Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresIdaho Falls DistrictCAR MP271
10 September 1994Natural20 acresIdaho Falls DistrictJUNIPER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Oneida County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Black Pine: 5 past producers, 4 occurrences, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Zinc, Gold, Mercury, Copper. 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
Black Pine MineGold, SilverPast Producer1992
Hazel Pine MineSilver, Lead, Gold, ZincPast ProducerCalamine, Smithsonite
Miller CinnabarMercury, Copper, Lead, Arsenic, Barium-BaritePast ProducerCinnabar, Jamesonite, Tetrahedrite
Mineral Gulch ProspectGold, Silver, Zinc, CopperOccurrenceCopper, Gold, Tetrahedrite
Mineral Gulch ProspectIronOccurrence
Ruth MineZinc, Mercury, Silver, CopperPast ProducerCinnabar, Malachite, Smithsonite, Sphalerite, Tetrahedrite
Tolman MineGold, Arsenic, MercuryProspect
Unnamed LocationCopper, Mercury, Antimony, ZincOccurrence
Valentine MineMercury, Gold, Silver, LeadPast ProducerCinnabar
Mineral Gulch ProspectCopper, ZincOccurrenceVein

Every working recorded in Oneida County

Storms near this place

6 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Black Pine in 6 storm reports between 2015 and 2025: 6 thunderstorm wind. 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
August 2025Thunderstorm WindBlack Pine-A 66 mph thunderstorm outflow wind gust recorded at the Juniper Interchange on interstate 84.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindBlack Pine-A 61 mph thunderstorm outflow wind gust was measured at the Juniper Interchange mesonet station on interstate 84.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindBlack Pine-A 62 mph thunderstorm outflow wind gust was recorded at the Juniper Interchange mesonet site on interstate 84.
December 2025Thunderstorm WindBlack Pine-A 62 mph wind gust measured at the Juniper Interchange mesonet site.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindBlack Pine-A 63 mph gust measured north of Black Pine.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindBlack Pine-The Juniper interchange mesonet site measured a 60 mph wind gust.

Every storm recorded in Oneida 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
Juniper5.6 miles9
Stone15.6 miles9
Nelson (historical)17.2 miles9
Holbrook18.4 miles9
Cedarhill18.8 miles9
Roy Summit19.4 miles9
Ireland Springs26.5 miles9
Buist26.5 miles9

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 Q122541000The 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 377770. 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.