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Bone, Idaho

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1924 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Swan Valley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83427. It stands on Canyon Creek. The Survey maps it on the Bone quadrangle. It stands 6,073 feet above sea level.

Bone within Bonneville County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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

6 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Bone between 1993 and 2015, burning about 279 acres in total. 1 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/undetermined2
Debris and open burning2
Natural1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
6 September 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.2 acresIdaho Falls DistrictKEPPS
10 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresIdaho Falls DistrictSELLARS CK
9 July 1993Debris and open burningunder an acreIdaho Falls DistrictMUD CREEK
27 July 2000Natural78 acresIdaho Falls DistrictLOERTSCHER
10 July 2003Power generation/transmission/distribution153 acresIdaho Falls DistrictDUMP FIRE
19 October 1997Debris and open burning35 acresIdaho Falls DistrictBIRCH CRK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bonneville County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Bone: 1 prospect, 1 producer, 1 unknown. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Phosphorus-Phosphates, Vanadium, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. 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
Clay, BrickClayUnknown
Gravel Pit, Bonneville CoSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Wolverine Creek Phosphate DepositPhosphorus-Phosphates, VanadiumProspectSurface

Every working recorded in Bonneville County

Storms near this place

3 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bone in 3 storm reports between 2004 and 2008: 3 hail. 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
July 2008HailBone-Large hail damaged crops in Bone.
June 2004HailBone-no account filed
August 2004HailBone-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Bonneville 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
Dehlin6.7 miles13
Taylorville13.7 miles13
Gerrard13.9 miles13
Guyaz14.1 miles13
Ammon14.1 miles14
Iona16.5 miles12
Lincoln16.5 miles12
Idaho Falls16.5 miles13

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 BoneAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4941469The 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 396161. 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.