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Eccles, Idaho

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1989. It stands in the Island Park census division. It stands on Eccles Butte. The Survey maps it on the Hatchery Butte quadrangle.

Eccles within Fremont County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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

22 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Eccles between 1992 and 2019, burning about 649 acres in total. 14 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
Natural14
Recreation and ceremony4
Equipment and vehicle use2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
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
7 September 2015Natural581 acresCaribou-Targhee National ForestPARTRIDGE
3 September 1994Natural40 acresCaribou-Targhee National Forestnot named
3 September 1994Naturalunder an acreCaribou-Targhee National Forestnot named
25 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresCaribou-Targhee National ForestSURVEY
2 September 1996Naturalunder an acreCaribou-Targhee National ForestCAMPERS
16 September 2010Naturalunder an acreCaribou-Targhee National ForestECCLES
10 September 2012Natural1.0 acresCaribou-Targhee National ForestECCLES
7 August 2003Natural2.0 acresCaribou-Targhee National ForestRIPLEY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fremont 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
Pineview2.8 miles10
Last Chance6.0 miles11
Box Canyon6.6 miles11
Island Park7.7 miles11
Gerrit8.3 miles9
Trude9.6 miles11
Big Springs12.1 miles11
Flat Rock12.1 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 396439. 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.