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Dingle, Idaho

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Montpelier census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83254. The Survey maps it on the Dingle quadrangle.

Dingle within Bear Lake County

On record in Dingle

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

14 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Dingle between 1992 and 2019, burning about 3,018 acres in total. 3 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/undetermined4
Natural3
Smoking2
Fireworks1
Recreation and ceremony1
Arson/incendiarism1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
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
2 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undetermined97 acresIdaho Falls DistrictMERKLEY
2 September 1992Smoking150 acresBear Lake National Wildlife RefugeMERKLEY
5 August 2000Natural30 acresIdaho Falls DistrictBEAR LAKE
3 August 1996Fireworks5.0 acresIdaho Falls DistrictMERKLEY #2
2 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresIdaho Falls DistrictSHEEP CREEK
17 August 2015Natural27 acresBear Lake National Wildlife RefugeREFUGE
26 July 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreBear Lake National Wildlife RefugeTOUR ROUTE
13 July 2001Natural1.0 acresIdaho Falls DistrictCEMETARY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bear Lake County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Dingle: 3 occurrences, 2 past producers, 1 producer, 1 prospect. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Copper, Silver. 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
Bonanza ShaftCopper, SilverPast ProducerReplacement
Duke MineCopperPast Producer1905
Unnamed LocationPhosphorus-PhosphatesOccurrence
Unnamed LocationPhosphorus-PhosphatesOccurrence
Bear Lake PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Department of Highways, Pit No 011aSand and Gravel, ConstructionProspect
Unnamed LocationSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence

Every working recorded in Bear Lake County

Storms near this place

3 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dingle in 3 storm reports between 2014 and 2024: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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
May 2024Thunderstorm WindDingle-A 58 mph wind gust measured at Rocky Point ITD platform.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindDingle-Thunderstorm winds removed a sheet metal roof from an outbuilding and dropped it onto another building nearby.
September 2014HailDingle-One inch hail measured in Dingle.

Every storm recorded in Bear Lake 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
Wardboro2.6 miles13
Harer5.5 miles12
Alton6.2 miles12
Lifton7.1 miles13
Paris7.1 miles15
Montpelier7.3 miles13
Bloomington7.3 miles15
Turnpike7.6 miles13

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 DingleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5278208The 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 397628. 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.