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Cliffs, Idaho

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Murphy census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83650. It stands on Wilson Creek. The Survey maps it on the Cliffs quadrangle.

Cliffs within Owyhee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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

21 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Cliffs between 1998 and 2019, burning about 3,632 acres in total. 19 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
Natural19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2

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 1998Naturalunder an acreBoise DistrictASR #10
13 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined180 acresBoise DistrictPLEASNTVAL
9 August 2012Naturalunder an acreBoise DistrictCOTTON HOPPER
8 August 2012Natural2,729 acresBoise DistrictGRASSHOPPER
5 August 1999Natural1.0 acresVale DistrictSHEEP SPR
4 August 2000Naturalunder an acreBoise DistrictREX TREE
2 August 2014Naturalunder an acreBoise DistrictCABBIE
2 August 2011Naturalunder an acreBoise DistrictDOUGH

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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Fairylawn4.8 miles8
South Mountain8.4 miles9
Pleasant Valley Place10.2 miles8
Triangle21.3 miles10
Flint21.8 miles9
Empire City (historical)27.4 miles10
De Lamar27.7 miles14
Telegraph Hill28.8 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 396305. 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.