BlockCentral, Idaho
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1948 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Grace census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83217. The Survey maps it on the Talmage quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 12 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1948 USGS Bancroft quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1949 USGS Bancroft quadrangle1:62500
- 1955 USGS Preston quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Preston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Preston quadrangle1:250000
- 1982 USGS Soda Springs quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1982 USGS Talmage quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
11 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Central between 1992 and 2020, burning about 798 acres in total. 2 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/undetermined | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 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 1995 | Equipment and vehicle use | 140 acres | Idaho Falls District | SWENSON |
| 23 September 1992 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 230 acres | Idaho Falls District | N GRACE |
| 2 September 1994 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 145 acres | Idaho Falls District | ALEXANDER |
| 6 August 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 201 acres | Idaho Falls District | GRACE |
| 29 August 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Idaho Falls District | CARIBOU COUNTY ASSIST 2 |
| 28 August 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.5 acres | Caribou County | CARIBOU COUNTY ASSIST 1 |
| 27 July 2001 | Natural | 51 acres | Idaho Falls District | RAIN |
| 20 July 1992 | Natural | 7.0 acres | Idaho Falls District | ALEXANDER |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
1 since 2014Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Central in 1 storm report in 2014: 1 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2014 | Hail | Central | - | One inch hail was measured from a thunderstorm 10 miles east of Lava Hot Springs near the town of Central. |
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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 397541. 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.
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.