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Egin, Idaho

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1948 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the St. Anthony census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83445. The Survey maps it on the Parker quadrangle.

Egin within Fremont County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

9 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Egin between 1994 and 2020, burning about 160 acres in total. 3 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
Debris and open burning3
Natural3
Equipment and vehicle use1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
13 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIdaho Falls DistrictCOTTONWOOD
3 July 2000Naturalunder an acreIdaho Falls District9MILEKNOLE
27 July 2018Natural13 acresIdaho Falls DistrictPLANO
26 June 1994Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresIdaho Falls DistrictHENRY'S #4
30 May 1994Debris and open burning39 acresIdaho Falls DistrictHENRY'S 3
16 May 2012Natural4.8 acresIdaho Falls DistrictEGIN
23 April 2012Debris and open burning62 acresIdaho Falls DistrictHENRYS FORK
31 March 1994Debris and open burning39 acresIdaho Falls DistrictHENRY'S

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fremont County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Egin: 2 producers, 2 past producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Fremont County

Storms near this place

2 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Egin in 2 storm reports between 2012 and 2019: 2 thunderstorm wind. 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
September 2012Thunderstorm WindEgin$2,000On September 10th winds downed a power line in Egin and 4,300 Fremont County residents lost power for about 4 hours from 3 pm EDT to about 7 pm EDT.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindEgin-A survey found large tree limbs down along E 400 N.

Every storm 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
Heman2.5 miles10
Parker4.5 miles10
Pyke6.2 miles10
Saint Anthony8.5 miles10
Wilford8.6 miles10
Teton9.1 miles10
Twin Groves11.4 miles10
Jenkins Will11.7 miles9

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 EginAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q48852001The 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 396446. 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.