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Boise Hills Village, Idaho

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Boise City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83702. It lies near Hulls Gulch. The Survey maps it on the Boise North quadrangle.

Boise Hills Village within Ada County

On record in Boise Hills Village

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 within a mile 12 of 50 shown

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Every listing in Ada County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 18 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

49 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 49 fires within 5 miles of Boise Hills Village between 1992 and 2020, burning about 18,793 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 4 were 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/undetermined15
Recreation and ceremony9
Equipment and vehicle use6
Natural6
Fireworks4
Arson/incendiarism4
Debris and open burning1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Smoking1
Other causes1
Firearms and explosives use1

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
30 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined70 acresBoise DistrictRA 11 ADA CO
28 September 2011Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreBoise DistrictCOTTONWOOD
27 September 1999Fireworks2.0 acresBoise DistrictOVERLOOK
25 September 2001Natural1.0 acresBoise District8THSTXTENS
21 September 2014Smoking3.0 acresBoise DistrictSUNNY
13 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresBoise DistrictBOGUS BASIN
13 September 1995Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresBoise DistrictSEAMAN GLC
9 August 2001Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresBoise DistrictBLUE CAR

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ada County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 57 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 57 workings within 5 miles of Boise Hills Village: 34 past producers, 8 producers, 6 prospects, 5 unknowns. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold, Stone, Dimension, Diatomite. 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
Geothermal LocationGeothermalOccurrence
Golden Star GroupGold, Copper, Lead, SilverPast Producer
Picket Pin MineGold, Lead, ZincPast ProducerVein
QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Stanley ProspectBeryllium, Garnet, Mica, SilicaProspectBeryl
Diatomite OccurrenceDiatomiteOccurrenceSedimentary
Keltic Gold MineGold, SilverPast ProducerVein
Morning Star MineGold, SilverPast ProducerVein
Old Boise Stone Company QuarryStone, DimensionPast ProducerSandstone
Perlite DepositPerliteOccurrence

Every working recorded in Ada 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
Highlands1.0 miles18
Boise1.5 miles19
Garden City2.7 miles19
Vernon3.4 miles19
Collister3.6 miles18
Boise Junction4.0 miles16
South Boise (historical)4.1 miles19
Hillcrest4.8 miles19

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 Q122598438The 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 396158. 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.