China Hat, Idaho

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1989. It stands in the Grand View census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83604. It stands on West Fork Bull Creek. The Survey maps it on the Indian Hay Meadows quadrangle.

China Hat within Owyhee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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.

1955 USGS Twin Falls quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Twin Falls quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1979 USGS Indian Hay Meadows quadrangle1:24000
1989 USGS Sheep Creek quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

3 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of China Hat between 1995 and 2002, burning about 498 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
Natural	2
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
17 August 1995	Fireworks	under an acre	Shoshone Paiute Tribes	DEBB
15 August 2001	Natural	493 acres	Boise District	SNOW CREEK
14 July 2002	Natural	5.0 acres	Shoshone Paiute Tribes	BUCKHORN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Owyhee 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
Dickens Place	3.7 miles	7
Dew Drop Place	5.3 miles	7
Frost Place	6.3 miles	7
Miller Creek Settlement	10.1 miles	8
Riddle	10.8 miles	8
Tindall (historical)	11.8 miles	7
Dans Place	13.1 miles	7
James Place	14.8 miles	7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 376144. 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.