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Cherry Creek, Idaho

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Malad City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83252. It stands on West Cherry Creek. The Survey maps it on the Henderson Creek quadrangle. It stands 4,465 feet above sea level.

Cherry Creek within Oneida County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 10 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

28 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Cherry Creek between 1992 and 2019, burning about 341 acres in total. 22 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
Natural22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Fireworks1

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
4 September 2015Naturalunder an acreCaribou-Targhee National ForestFOURMILE
14 September 2016Naturalunder an acreCaribou-Targhee National ForestFOUR MILE
10 September 1995Naturalunder an acreCaribou-Targhee National ForestTWO MILE #2
9 August 1998Naturalunder an acreCaribou-Targhee National ForestTORO
5 August 2006Naturalunder an acreCaribou-Targhee National Forest4 MILE
30 August 1992Natural115 acresIdaho Falls DistrictMADSEN
20 August 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresCaribou-Targhee National Forest.TWO MILE
13 August 1996Natural15 acresCaribou-Targhee National ForestCHERRY CREEK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Oneida County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Cherry Creek: 3 occurrences, 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Geothermal, Iron, Gold, 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
Borrow PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Williams PropertyIron, GoldOccurrence
Geothermal LocationGeothermalOccurrence
Woodruff Hot SpringGeothermalOccurrence

Every working recorded in Oneida County

Storms near this place

3 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cherry Creek in 3 storm reports between 2007 and 2023: 2 hail, 1 debris flow. 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 2021Debris FlowCherry Creek-On June 25th video of debris flow running over north bound interstate 15 just north of the Utah border in Oneida county was seen. Radar estimated 2 inches of rainfall in that area resulting in the debris flow and flooding.
August 2007HailCherry Creek-A weather spotter reported three-quarter inch hail near Cherry Creek.
June 2023HailCherry Creek-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Oneida 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
Woodruff4.4 miles10
Samaria5.9 miles9
Gwenford6.0 miles9
Malad City6.5 miles9
Pleasantview7.0 miles9
Saint Johns8.6 miles9
Holbrook Summit12.8 miles9
Ridgedale14.3 miles10

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 Cherry CreekAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5092310The 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 379220. 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.