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Claytonia, Idaho

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Marsing census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83639. The Survey maps it on the Marsing quadrangle. It stands 2,254 feet above sea level.

Claytonia within Owyhee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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

6 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Claytonia between 1994 and 2013, burning about 45 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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/undetermined5
Arson/incendiarism1

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 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresBoise DistrictCLARKS
21 August 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined35 acresBoise DistrictCENTRLCOVE
4 July 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreDeer Flat National Wildlife RefugeDAM
12 July 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreBoise DistrictRIVERSIDE
11 July 1994Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresDeer Flat National Wildlife RefugeEIGHT
24 November 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreDeer Flat National Wildlife RefugeJENSEN ISLAND

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Owyhee County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 19 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 19 workings within 5 miles of Claytonia: 12 unknowns, 3 producers, 2 past producers, 2 occurrences. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Volcanic Materials, Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Marsing ClayClayProducer
Rock Tepe MineStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Cinder DepositVolcanic MaterialsOccurrence
Cinder DepositVolcanic MaterialsOccurrence
Cinder PitVolcanic MaterialsUnknown
Cinder PitVolcanic MaterialsUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Marsing1.8 miles13
Homedale6.4 miles12
Sands (historical)6.9 miles13
Owyhee Heights9.2 miles12
Givens Hot Springs11.8 miles14
Wilson17.1 miles14
Rockville17.9 miles6
Guffey24.0 miles15

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 ClaytoniaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q30622530The 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 396299. 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.