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Bundy, Idaho

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Nez Perce census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83540. It lies near Thiessen Gulch. The Survey maps it on the Sweetwater quadrangle.

Bundy within Nez Perce County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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.

Fires near this place

226 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 226 fires within 5 miles of Bundy between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,321 acres in total. 15 started naturally. 7 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
Fireworks77
Debris and open burning42
Equipment and vehicle use26
Missing data/not specified/undetermined21
Natural15
Smoking11
Other causes8
Arson/incendiarism7
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Recreation and ceremony5
Railroad operations and maintenance4

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
9 September 2005Fireworksunder an acreNez Perce TribeOVERTHILL
7 September 2005Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreNez Perce TribeSWEETWATER
7 September 2002Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreNez Perce TribeCARVALLEY
7 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresNez Perce TribeBOYER
6 September 1995Natural80 acresNez Perce TribeLYLEGULCH
30 September 2011Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreNez Perce TribeROCKY TOP
3 September 2018Fireworksunder an acreNez Perce TribeHOOP FIRE
29 September 2016Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresNez Perce TribeTRACK FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Nez Perce County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Bundy: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Nez Perce County

Storms near this place

2 since 2022

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bundy in 2 storm reports in 2022: 2 flood. 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
June 2022FloodBundy$1,000,000Us95 is down to one lane at milepost 296 due to flooding over roadway. time estimated based on dot report.
June 2022FloodBundy$750,000Us95 is down to one lane at milepost 296 due to flooding over roadway. time estimated based on dot report.

Every storm recorded in Nez Perce 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
Jacques1.7 miles9
Sweetwater2.0 miles9
Lapwai3.9 miles10
Webb4.2 miles9
Culdesac4.6 miles9
Snow (historical)4.6 miles9
Spalding6.7 miles10
Joseph7.0 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 397499. 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.