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Butte City, Idaho

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Arco census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83213. The Survey maps it on the Butte City quadrangle. 78 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,322 feet above sea level.

Butte City within Butte County

Population over time

2 figures

Butte City grew from 74 to 78 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
201074
202078+4 (+5%)

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.

Fires near this place

51 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 51 fires within 5 miles of Butte City between 1992 and 2020, burning about 22,233 acres in total. 9 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
Fireworks30
Natural9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Equipment and vehicle use5
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
10 September 2013Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresIdaho Falls DistrictJUNCTION
1 September 1992Naturalunder an acreIdaho Falls DistrictBOX CANYON
6 August 2020Naturalunder an acreIdaho Falls DistrictARCO HILLS
30 August 2009Naturalunder an acreIdaho Falls DistrictBIG LOST
27 August 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSalmon-Challis National ForestARCO
26 August 2010Equipment and vehicle use20 acresIdaho Falls DistrictARCO
16 August 2007Naturalunder an acreIdaho Falls DistrictDEADMAN
13 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.6 acresIdaho Falls DistrictMUNSEY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Butte 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 Butte City: 1 prospect, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Magnesite, 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
Fish Haven DolomiteMagnesiteProspect
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Butte 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
Arco3.5 miles9
Lost River8.7 miles9
Moore10.8 miles9
Scoville15.9 miles9
Darlington16.7 miles10
Howe17.5 miles10
Era17.9 miles12
Martin18.2 miles12

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 Butte CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1511066The 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 396200. 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.