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Grainville, Idaho

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1989. It stands in the Ashton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83420. The Survey maps it on the Warm River quadrangle.

Grainville within Fremont County

On record in Grainville

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

5 surveys from 11 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

4 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Grainville between 1994 and 2017, burning about 15 acres in total. 1 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/undetermined2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Natural1

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 1994Naturalunder an acreCaribou-Targhee National Forestnot named
6 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined13 acresIdaho Falls DistrictFREMONT COUNTY ASSIST 1
21 August 2003Misuse of fire by a minor1.8 acresCaribou-Targhee National ForestASHTON ASSIST
15 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCaribou-Targhee National ForestBOY SCOUT ROAD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fremont County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Grainville: 4 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

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
Drummond2.3 miles9
Farnum3.0 miles9
Squirrel3.7 miles11
Marysville4.1 miles11
Ashton5.2 miles11
France6.2 miles9
Greentimber (historical)6.3 miles11
Warm River6.6 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 397752. 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.