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DeWoff, Idaho

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Carey census division. It lies near Brigham Point. The Survey maps it on the Lake Walcott East quadrangle.

DeWoff within Blaine County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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.

Fires near this place

28 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of DeWoff between 1994 and 2019, burning about 13,276 acres in total. 11 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
Railroad operations and maintenance13
Natural11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Debris and open burning1

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
5 September 2019Natural768 acresIdaho Falls DistrictWAPI
27 September 2003Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreIdaho Falls DistrictWAPI
12 September 2001Natural5.0 acresTwin Falls DistrictUPRRMM265
8 August 2006Natural149 acresIdaho Falls DistrictHOLLY
6 August 1999Debris and open burning112 acresTwin Falls DistrictUPRRMP265
5 August 1999Natural2.0 acresTwin Falls DistrictKIMAMAWEST
29 August 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined12 acresIdaho Falls DistrictE MINIDOKA
27 August 2002Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreIdaho Falls DistrictUPRR MM258

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Blaine County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of DeWoff: 4 past producers, 4 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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
Bessie Hannah PlacerGoldUnknown
Bessie PlacerGoldPast ProducerPlacer
Boise PlacerGoldPast ProducerPlacer
Boise PlacerGoldUnknown
Midnight PlacerGoldPast ProducerPlacer
Midnight PlacerGoldUnknown
Nebraska PlacerGoldPast ProducerPlacer
Nebraska PlacerGoldUnknown

Every working recorded in Blaine 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
Wapi4.2 miles10
Smith Springs5.5 miles9
Hawley7.4 miles9
Cream Can Junction17.3 miles8
Tikura53.1 miles9
Carey55.1 miles9
Picabo59.5 miles7
Leduc (historical)60.6 miles7

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.

Wikidata item Q122554450The 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 396382. 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.