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Bliss, Idaho

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1958. It stands in the Bliss census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83314. The Survey maps it on the Bliss quadrangle. 258 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,271 feet above sea level.

Bliss within Gooding County

On record in Bliss

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Bliss fell from 318 to 258 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010318
2020258-60 (-19%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 10 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

87 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 87 fires within 5 miles of Bliss between 1992 and 2020, burning about 20,484 acres in total. 20 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 use27
Natural20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Debris and open burning10
Railroad operations and maintenance10
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Fireworks2
Smoking1
Arson/incendiarism1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
9 September 2005Power generation/transmission/distribution64 acresTwin Falls DistrictWINDMILL
9 September 2005Power generation/transmission/distribution5.0 acresTwin Falls DistrictOLD BB
24 September 2017Equipment and vehicle use198 acresTwin Falls DistrictWEST BLISS
24 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTwin Falls DistrictBLISSGRADE
2 September 2018Debris and open burning246 acresTwin Falls DistrictSPRING COVE
19 September 2010Railroad operations and maintenance62 acresTwin Falls DistrictNEAR BLISS
17 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined25 acresBoise DistrictTUANA GLCH
10 September 2017Fireworksunder an acreTwin Falls DistrictBLISS POINT 2

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Gooding County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Bliss: 4 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Gold. 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
Boulder Hill PlacerGoldPast Producer
Hagerman Valley Clay PitClayPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Smith S&G PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Smith Sand and GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Snake River Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
State Pit Gd 58Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Gooding County

Storms near this place

1 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bliss in 1 storm report in 1997: 1 wildfire. 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 1997WildfireBliss-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Gooding 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
Fuller6.7 miles8
Tuttle7.5 miles9
Hagerman8.4 miles10
Gooding12.6 miles7
Wendell16.7 miles7
Appleton20.7 miles11

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.

Wikipedia article on BlissAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q770344The 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 371602. 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.