Farnum, Idaho

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Ashton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83420. The Survey maps it on the Linderman Dam quadrangle.

Farnum within Fremont 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.

1955 USGS Driggs quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Driggs quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Driggs quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Linderman Dam quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1988 USGS Rexburg quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

3 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Farnum between 2003 and 2017, burning about 15 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/undetermined	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
6 August 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	13 acres	Idaho Falls District	FREMONT COUNTY ASSIST 1
21 August 2003	Misuse of fire by a minor	1.8 acres	Caribou-Targhee National Forest	ASHTON ASSIST
15 August 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Caribou-Targhee National Forest	BOY SCOUT ROAD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fremont County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Farnum: 5 producers. All of them 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Grainville	3.0 miles	11
Drummond	3.4 miles	9
Marysville	5.1 miles	11
Ashton	5.4 miles	11
Squirrel	6.2 miles	11
Lodi (historical)	6.9 miles	11
France	7.4 miles	9
Chester	8.5 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 399488. 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.