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Eiffie, Idaho

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1897 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Fruitland census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83619. It lies near Sand Hollow. The Survey maps it on the Payette quadrangle.

Eiffie within Payette County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 16 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

5 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Eiffie between 1995 and 2019, burning about 311 acres in total. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Equipment and vehicle use2
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
4 August 2006Equipment and vehicle use39 acresBoise DistrictPLAYDOH
21 August 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined76 acresBoise DistrictCLAY PT.
21 July 2000Debris and open burning184 acresBoise DistrictHOT TRASH
6 June 2001Equipment and vehicle use9.0 acresBoise DistrictMTRCYCLEPK
13 October 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.9 acresVale DistrictTATER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Payette County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 22 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 22 workings within 5 miles of Eiffie: 10 past producers, 5 producers, 5 prospects, 2 occurrences. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Stone, Geothermal. 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
Jensen Clay MineBrick Clay, KaolinPast ProducerIllite
Malheur Butte SpringsGeothermalOccurrence
QuarryStonePast Producer
Unnamed SiteStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Clay, Industrial, Jensen Brick CoClayPast Producer
PayetteClayOccurrence
Flynn Pit and PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Flynn Pit and PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Payette 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
Gayway Corner0.3 miles16
Ingard0.6 miles16
Fruitland1.2 miles16
Ramey1.9 miles16
Washoe2.6 miles16
Buckingham2.8 miles11
Payette Heights3.2 miles16
Palisades Corner3.5 miles11

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 Q122591856The 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 396448. 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.