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Giveout, Idaho

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Montpelier census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83238. It lies near Shale Point. The Survey maps it on the Meade Peak quadrangle. It stands 7,054 feet above sea level.

Giveout within Bear Lake County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

13 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Giveout between 1992 and 2019, burning about 134 acres in total. 5 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 ceremony7
Natural5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
18 September 2008Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreCaribou-Targhee National ForestMONTPELIER CREEK
10 September 2012Naturalunder an acreCaribou-Targhee National ForestPALISADES
4 August 1992Natural1.0 acresCaribou-Targhee National Forestnot named
12 August 1998Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreCaribou-Targhee National ForestWHISKEY FLAT
11 August 2003Natural5.0 acresCaribou-Targhee National ForestHOME CANYON
28 July 2019Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreCaribou-Targhee National ForestBUNNY GULCH
24 July 2017Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreCaribou-Targhee National ForestBUNNY GULCH
17 July 2002Natural42 acresCaribou-Targhee National ForestRED MOUNTAIN

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 Giveout: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gypsum-Anhydrite. 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
Crow Creek Gypsum OccurrenceGypsum-AnhydriteUnknown

Every working 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
Geneva6.5 miles12
Bennington8.8 miles13
Montpelier9.9 miles13
Raymond11.2 miles12
Georgetown12.1 miles13
Wooleys12.3 miles14
Wardboro12.9 miles13
Alton13.2 miles12

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 Q27989074The 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 396555. 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.