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Flat Rock, Idaho

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Island Park census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83429. The Survey maps it on the Big Springs quadrangle. It stands 6,375 feet above sea level.

Flat Rock within Fremont County

On record in Flat Rock

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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

39 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 39 fires within 5 miles of Flat Rock between 1992 and 2020, burning about 19 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 1 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/undetermined9
Natural9
Recreation and ceremony7
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Debris and open burning4
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Arson/incendiarism1
Smoking1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCaribou-Targhee National ForestBIG SPRINGS
24 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCaribou-Targhee National Forestnot named
21 September 2015Naturalunder an acreCaribou-Targhee National ForestSAWTELL CREEK
11 September 1997Naturalunder an acreCaribou-Targhee National ForestBOOT
7 August 2010Naturalunder an acreCaribou-Targhee National ForestBIG SPRINGS
5 August 1996Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresCaribou-Targhee National ForestRANCHO MCCREE
4 August 2007Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreCaribou-Targhee National ForestMOOSE
27 August 1996Debris and open burning1.0 acresCaribou-Targhee National ForestDUMP

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fremont County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Flat Rock: 11 past producers, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
Big SpringsGeothermalOccurrence
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Trude2.8 miles11
Big Springs4.3 miles11
Island Park5.6 miles11
Rea5.7 miles11
Box Canyon9.2 miles11
Last Chance9.9 miles11
Lake11.9 miles13
Eccles12.1 miles10

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 Flat RockAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q92997666The 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 399485. 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.