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Gifford, Idaho

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Nez Perce census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83524. The Survey maps it on the Gifford quadrangle. It stands 2,949 feet above sea level.

Gifford within Nez Perce 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.

Fires near this place

43 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 43 fires within 5 miles of Gifford between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,354 acres in total. 16 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
Natural16
Debris and open burning9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Equipment and vehicle use5
Recreation and ceremony2
Smoking2
Arson/incendiarism1
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
4 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCottonwood Field OfficeHIGHWAY 12
26 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined100 acresNez Perce TribeSUNNYSIDE
2 September 2011Smoking60 acresNez Perce TribeCULDESAC
11 September 2002Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresIdaho Department of LandsANGEL JACK
7 August 2010Natural1.0 acresNez Perce TribeCOYOTE CREEK NO GO
5 August 2017Debris and open burning15 acresNez Perce TribeCULDESAC
5 August 2010Naturalunder an acreCraig Mountain Area OfficeCOYOTE
5 August 2010Naturalunder an acreCraig Mountain Area OfficeDEAD COYOTE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Nez Perce 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 Gifford: 1 producer. 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Nez Perce County

Storms near this place

3 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gifford in 3 storm reports between 2000 and 2015: 2 hail, 1 heavy rain. 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
June 2015Heavy RainGifford$100A member of law enforcement reported water over Gifford/Reubens road which is around 4 miles south southeast of Gifford, Idaho.
May 2000HailGifford-no account filed
August 2000HailGifford-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Nez Perce 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
Eugene0.2 miles9
Beeman3.1 miles9
German Settlement3.4 miles9
Willola4.3 miles10
Lenore4.5 miles10
Agatha4.8 miles10
Big George5.3 miles10
Melrose5.9 miles8

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 GiffordAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5559903The 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 396549. 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.