Hawkins, Idaho

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the South Bannock census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83214. It stands on Yellow Dog Creek. The Survey maps it on the Hawkins quadrangle.

Hawkins within Bannock County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 10 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.

1954 USGS Pocatello quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Pocatello quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1968 USGS Hawkins quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1984 USGS Pocatello quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

12 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Hawkins between 1996 and 2018, burning about 3,437 acres in total. 8 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
Natural	8
Recreation and ceremony	2
Arson/incendiarism	1
Debris and open burning	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
7 August 2000	Arson/incendiarism	3,070 acres	Caribou-Targhee National Forest	HAWKINS
4 August 2006	Natural	2.2 acres	Idaho Falls District	HAWKINS
31 August 2011	Natural	1.5 acres	Idaho Falls District	COWLEY SPRINGS
31 August 2011	Natural	31 acres	Idaho Falls District	GARDEN GAP
31 August 2001	Natural	under an acre	Idaho Falls District	PHANTOM
23 August 2001	Debris and open burning	303 acres	Idaho Falls District	GARDEN GAP
21 August 1997	Natural	under an acre	Idaho Falls District	GAP
20 August 2001	Natural	under an acre	Idaho Falls District	CEDAR TREE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Robin

Every fire recorded in Bannock County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Hawkins: 1 occurrence, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Uranium, 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
	Neney Prospect	Gold, Silver, Uranium	Occurrence	Underground

Every working recorded in Bannock 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
Robin	5.6 miles	10
Arimo	9.1 miles	10
Virginia	10.0 miles	10
Marsh Valley	10.0 miles	10
McCammon	10.8 miles	10
Cambridge	13.6 miles	10
Downey	14.0 miles	10
Topaz (historical)	14.8 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 Hawkins	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q48852140	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 396627. 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.