Boles, Idaho

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Cottonwood census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83522. The Survey maps it on the Boles quadrangle.

Boles within Idaho 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.

1955 USGS Grangeville quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1959 USGS Grangeville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1963 USGS Boles quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1980 USGS Grangeville quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

50 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 50 fires within 5 miles of Boles between 1992 and 2019, burning about 3,738 acres in total. 45 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
Natural	45
Debris and open burning	3
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Recreation and ceremony	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
9 September 2013	Natural	under an acre	Idaho Department of Lands	GIBBONS CANYON
4 September 2013	Natural	under an acre	Idaho Department of Lands	SWEET HOME
11 September 2013	Natural	3.2 acres	Idaho Department of Lands	FALLS CREEK
1 September 2017	Natural	2.0 acres	Idaho Department of Lands	COTTONWOOD CREEK
1 September 2007	Natural	2.0 acres	Idaho Department of Lands	SECOND
9 August 2019	Natural	under an acre	Cottonwood Field Office	KELLY CREEK
9 August 2013	Natural	166 acres	Idaho Department of Lands	COTTONWOOD CREEK
8 August 2008	Natural	2,967 acres	Cottonwood Field Office	SNOW HOLE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Idaho 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
Davidson	6.7 miles	9
Mexican Place	6.7 miles	9
Joseph	7.9 miles	8
Canfield	8.6 miles	10
Keuterville	9.2 miles	8
Cottonwood	12.6 miles	10
Fenn	13.6 miles	8
Copperville	14.5 miles	10

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 Boles	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q115483835	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 376142. 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.