Budge, Idaho

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Paul census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83347. The Survey maps it on the Burley quadrangle.

Budge within Minidoka 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.

1954 USGS Pocatello quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Pocatello quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1964 USGS Burley SE quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1993 USGS Lake Walcott quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

15 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Budge between 1993 and 2011, burning about 1,671 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
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Railroad operations and maintenance	3
Fireworks	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
8 September 2000	Equipment and vehicle use	336 acres	Twin Falls District	850WEST
5 September 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Twin Falls District	PAUL400N
15 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15 acres	Idaho Falls District	600 WEST
1 September 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Idaho Falls District	NORTH PAUL
15 August 2006	Railroad operations and maintenance	344 acres	Idaho Falls District	HYNES
9 July 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Idaho Falls District	RURAL ASSIST 1
8 July 2008	Fireworks	1.0 acres	Idaho Falls District	K MAIN DRAIN
6 July 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	236 acres	Idaho Falls District	1050 WEST

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Minidoka 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 Budge: 4 producers, 2 past producers, 1 occurrence. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Brick 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Burley Clay Mine	Brick Clay	Producer	Unconsolidated Sediments
Snake River Placers	Gold	Past Producer	Placer
Clay Deposit	Clay	Occurrence
Emerson Clay Pit	Clay	Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Kloepfer Crushing and Screening Plt	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Sand and Gravel Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Minidoka 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
Paul	2.2 miles	9
Hynes	3.6 miles	9
Myers	3.7 miles	9
Travers	4.6 miles	10
Heyburn	4.7 miles	9
Amalga	5.7 miles	10
Schow	6.2 miles	10
Rupert	7.8 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 396189. 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.