Dairy Creek, Idaho

9 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 lies near Mine Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Dairy Creek quadrangle.

Dairy Creek within Oneida County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 9 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.

1954 USGS Pocatello quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Pocatello quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1968 USGS Dairy Creek quadrangle1:24000
1984 USGS Malad City quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

11 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Dairy Creek between 1992 and 2017, burning about 1,172 acres in total. 7 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	7
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Debris and open burning	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Recreation and ceremony	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
23 September 1992	Natural	60 acres	Idaho Falls District	MINECANYON
31 August 2011	Natural	1.5 acres	Idaho Falls District	COWLEY SPRINGS
23 August 2013	Natural	under an acre	Idaho Falls District	WILLOW HOLLOW
20 August 1996	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Idaho Falls District	DAIRY
15 August 2007	Natural	under an acre	Caribou-Targhee National Forest	TWIN PEAKS
13 August 2017	Natural	5.6 acres	Idaho Falls District	ANDERSON
30 July 2017	Natural	7.0 acres	Idaho Falls District	MINE CANYON
29 July 1995	Natural	39 acres	Idaho Falls District	BOWEN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Daniels

Every fire recorded in Oneida County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Dairy Creek: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Pumice, Perlite, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
M. J. Hess Construction Co. Pit	Pumice, Perlite	Producer	Pumice
Wright's Creek Mine	Pumice	Producer

Every working 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Daniels	6.2 miles	10
Buist	13.2 miles	9
Saint Johns	18.6 miles	9
Holbrook Summit	20.5 miles	9
Ireland Springs	20.8 miles	9
Cedarhill	20.9 miles	9
Malad City	21.0 miles	9
Pleasantview	21.7 miles	9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 396370. 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.