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Heglar, Idaho

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Albion census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83211. It lies near North Heglar Canyon. The Survey maps it on the South Chapin Mountain quadrangle.

Heglar within Cassia County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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.

Fires near this place

19 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Heglar between 1992 and 2018, burning about 15,394 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 2 were 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
Natural13
Arson/incendiarism2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Debris and open burning1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
12 September 1992Natural1,920 acresIdaho Falls DistrictHEGLAR CYN
9 August 1998Natural5.0 acresTwin Falls DistrictCALDERCK1
6 August 2001Arson/incendiarism6.4 acresTwin Falls DistrictNCHAPMAN
6 August 2001Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresTwin Falls DistrictNCHAPMAN2
24 August 2000Naturalunder an acreTwin Falls DistrictSINGLETREE
24 August 2000Natural56 acresTwin Falls DistrictHEGLAR
20 August 2001Natural54 acresTwin Falls DistrictI84MP239
20 August 2001Natural8.6 acresTwin Falls DistrictCHAPINMTN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cassia 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 Heglar: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Crushed Rock Pit--Burley Hwy DistStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Cassia County

Storms near this place

11 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Heglar in 11 storm reports between 1997 and 2023: 5 hail, 3 flash flood, 3 thunderstorm wind. 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
May 2021Thunderstorm WindHeglar-A 58 mph wind gust was measured at the Raft River RAWS site.
July 2021Flash FloodHeglar-Significant flash flooding occurred across a gravel road, and water was overtopping a small bridge along a paved road in the area of S 2950 E and Heglar Canyon Road west northwest of Heglar.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindHeglar-Raft River mesonet recorded 67 mph wind gust.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindHeglar-A 79 mph wind gust measured by public on Yale Road just south of 400 N.
August 1997HailHeglar-Dime to Quarter-size hail severly damaged crops. Farmers estimated up to 70 percent wheat damage in Idahome area.
August 1997HailHeglar-Spotter reported dime-size hail and 0.70 inch of rain.
August 1997Flash FloodHeglar-6 to 8 feet of water rushed down Heglar Canyon damaging Heglar Canyon Road in several locations. Water flooded over one bridge.
August 1997Flash FloodHeglar-Chapin Road was damaged by 1 to 3 feet of water which flooded down the normally dry stream channel next to the road.
May 1997HailHeglar-The hail lasted 30 minutes with two inches of accumulation. This was the most hail the weather spotter had seen in 25 years.
May 2023HailHeglar-no account filed
May 1997HailHeglar-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cassia 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
Raft River9.7 miles10
Sublett11.1 miles10
Tipton (historical)13.3 miles10
Idahome14.0 miles8
Malta16.5 miles8
Cotterel16.8 miles9
Keogh19.9 miles8
Conant21.0 miles9

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 Q122543243The 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 376161. 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.