Blue Dome, Idaho

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the West Clark census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83464. It lies near Skull Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Blue Dome quadrangle.

Blue Dome within Clark 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 Dubois quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Dubois quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1969 USGS Blue Dome quadrangle1:24000
1983 USGS Dubois quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

1 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Blue Dome in 2011, burning about 9 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
12 August 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8.7 acres	Idaho Falls District	BIRCH CREEK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clark 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 Blue Dome: 5 prospects, 3 past producers, 2 unknowns, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Lead, Silver, Copper, Silver, Gold. 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
Bare and Chastaine	Copper, Gold, Silver	Prospect
Birch Creek	Silver, Gold, Lead, Zinc	Unknown
Birch Creek District	Silver, Zinc, Copper, Lead	Producer	REPLACEMENT
Blue Dome	Phosphorus-Phosphates	Prospect
Long Canyon	Uranium	Unknown
Weimer Mine	Copper, Silver, Gold, Lead	Past Producer	1885, 1890
Hill No. 3 Prospect	Lead, Silver	Past Producer	Vein
Pocahontas Claims	Copper	Past Producer
Rainbow Hill	Lead, Silver	Prospect
Bald Mountain Gulch Prospect	Lead	Prospect

Every working recorded in Clark 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
Kaufman (historical)	0.0 miles	8
Lone Pine	2.2 miles	8
Lidy Hot Springs	19.3 miles	8
Winsper	21.1 miles	8
Dubois	36.1 miles	8
Jones Crossing	37.0 miles	9
Highbridge	38.0 miles	8
Spencer	40.8 miles	8

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 Q122594382

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 399799. 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.