Blackrock, Idaho

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1937 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Inkom census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83245. It stands on Papoose Creek. The Survey maps it on the Inkom quadrangle.

Blackrock within Bannock County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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.

1937 USGS Pocatello quadrangle1:48000
1937 USGS Pocatello quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1944 USGS Pocatello quadrangle1:62500
1954 USGS Pocatello quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Pocatello quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1971 USGS Inkom quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1984 USGS Pocatello quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

90 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 90 fires within 5 miles of Blackrock between 1992 and 2020, burning about 8,221 acres in total. 32 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
Natural	32
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	17
Recreation and ceremony	12
Equipment and vehicle use	11
Fireworks	4
Firearms and explosives use	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Debris and open burning	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Arson/incendiarism	1
Smoking	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
30 September 1998	Natural	under an acre	Idaho Falls District	PORTNEUF
2 September 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	1.3 acres	Idaho Falls District	CHINAMAN PEAK
18 September 1995	Natural	under an acre	Idaho Falls District	MINE FIRE
17 September 2000	Natural	2.0 acres	Caribou-Targhee National Forest	INDIAN MOUNTAIN
14 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Idaho Falls District	BANNOCK COUNTY ASSIST 3
12 September 1995	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Idaho Falls District	CHINKS
10 September 2011	Firearms and explosives use	167 acres	Idaho Falls District	BLACKROCK 2
1 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	54 acres	Idaho Falls District	PORTNEUF

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bannock County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Blackrock: 5 past producers, 2 occurrences, 2 unknowns, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Copper, Lead, Gold, Silver, Copper, Lead. 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
Fort Hall Mine	Copper, Lead, Gold, Silver	Past Producer	Replacement
High Noon Prospect	Copper, Lead	Occurrence	1956
Inkom (Silica) Quarry	Quartz, Silica	Producer
Inkom Quarry	Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Calcium	Producer	Sedimentary
Lead Draw	Clay, Aluminum	Unknown
Marble Deposit	Marble, Dimension	Occurrence	Metamorphic
Wells Cargo Quartzite	Silica	Past Producer
Papoose Creek	Copper	Unknown
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Bannock 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
Portneuf	1.9 miles	14
Inkom	3.9 miles	14
Pocatello	8.1 miles	15
Alameda	9.3 miles	15
Chubbuck	11.3 miles	15
McCammon	12.3 miles	10
Tyhee	13.0 miles	15
Robin	15.7 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 396143. 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.