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Fish Haven, Idaho

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 2005. It stands in the Paris census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83287. It lies in Fish Haven Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Saint Charles quadrangle. It stands 5,924 feet above sea level.

Fish Haven within Bear Lake County

On record in Fish Haven

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

8 surveys from 14 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

50 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 50 fires within 5 miles of Fish Haven between 1993 and 2019, burning about 12 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
Recreation and ceremony43
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Equipment and vehicle use1
Other causes1
Fireworks1

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
5 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsCAMPER WORLD
3 September 2018Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreCaribou-Targhee National ForestGREEN
3 September 2012Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreCaribou-Targhee National ForestSADDUCEE SPRING
2 September 2013Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreUinta-Wasatch-Cache National ForestCRAB RIDGE
9 August 2015Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresCaribou-Targhee National ForestSADDUCCE
8 August 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreCaribou-Targhee National ForestFISH HAVEN
4 August 2013Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreIdaho Falls DistrictFISH HAVEN 20
4 August 2013Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreCaribou-Targhee National ForestFISH HAVEN #19

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bear Lake County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Fish Haven: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Lead, Copper, Barium-Barite. 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
Victoria No 1 ProspectLead, Copper, Barium-BariteProspectVein

Every working recorded in Bear Lake County

Storms near this place

1 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fish Haven in 1 storm report in 2011: 1 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
July 2011Thunderstorm WindFish Haven-Several tree branches downed in the city of Fish Haven.

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
Glencoe1.9 miles14
Saint Charles5.3 miles14
Lifton7.4 miles13
Bear Lake Sands7.6 miles13
Bear Lake Hot Springs8.5 miles13
Turnpike8.7 miles13
Bloomington10.7 miles15
Paris13.1 miles15

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 Fish HavenAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5454519The 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 381757. 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.