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Cleft, Idaho

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Mountain Home census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83647. The Survey maps it on the Crater Rings quadrangle.

Cleft within Elmore County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 18 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

142 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 142 fires within 5 miles of Cleft between 1992 and 2020, burning about 32,430 acres in total. 23 started naturally. 2 were 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
Equipment and vehicle use53
Missing data/not specified/undetermined29
Natural23
Railroad operations and maintenance17
Power generation/transmission/distribution7
Debris and open burning7
Arson/incendiarism2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Recreation and ceremony1
Other causes1

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
6 September 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreBoise DistrictMM80 I84
6 September 1997Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreBoise DistrictMP412RR
6 September 1997Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreBoise DistrictMP 78 I-84
4 September 2003Equipment and vehicle use26 acresBoise DistrictMP80I84
4 September 1995Natural3.0 acresBoise DistrictCRATERWEST
30 September 1993Railroad operations and maintenance2,806 acresBoise DistrictRR MP 416
29 September 2000Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresBoise DistrictRR MP 411
28 September 2006Equipment and vehicle use108 acresBoise DistrictMP86 I84

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Elmore 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 Cleft: 1 past producer, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold. 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
AuroraGoldOccurrence
SandpitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Elmore County

Storms near this place

2 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cleft in 2 storm reports between 2017 and 2025: 1 flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
February 2017FloodCleft$2,000A road was washed out cutting access to Souls Rest Creek neighborhood.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindCleft-At 6:30pm MDT, Idaho Power mesonet station 032ID recorded a wind gust of 68 mph. Later, at 6:36pm MDT, a RAWs (LLCI1) recorded a gust of 59 mph. These gusts were associated with a outflow boundary from a thunderstorm southwest of both locations. No damages were reported.

Every storm recorded in Elmore 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
Sebree4.9 miles18
Mountain Home11.2 miles20
Mayfield12.6 miles18
Reverse19.6 miles20
Reclamation Village20.3 miles16
Dixie22.1 miles16
Prairie23.5 miles17
Hammett28.7 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 396302. 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.