Grasmere, Idaho

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1989. It stands in the Bruneau census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83604. It stands on China Creek. The Survey maps it on the Grasmere quadrangle. It stands 5,134 feet above sea level.

Grasmere within Owyhee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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.

1955 USGS Twin Falls quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Twin Falls quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1979 USGS Grasmere quadrangle1:24000
1989 USGS Sheep Creek quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

6 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Grasmere between 1999 and 2016, burning about 443 acres in total. 3 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
Natural	3
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
9 September 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	64 acres	Boise District	NANNIE
9 August 2005	Natural	under an acre	Boise District	MP28HWY51
6 August 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	12 acres	Boise District	MM37 HWY51
6 August 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Boise District	MM31 HIWAY 51
5 August 1999	Natural	1.0 acres	Boise District	LOUSECK
5 August 1999	Natural	366 acres	Boise District	MERE STATI

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Owyhee 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Bengoechea Place	5.3 miles	7
Tindall (historical)	7.6 miles	7
Dans Place	7.7 miles	7
Wickahoney	7.9 miles	7
James Place	8.8 miles	7
Cottonwood (historical)	10.1 miles	8
Frost Place	13.1 miles	7
Harvey Place	14.0 miles	9

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 Grasmere	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q19462058	The 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 376052. 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.