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Herman, Idaho

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1932 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Swan Valley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83285. The Survey maps it on the Herman quadrangle.

Herman within Bonneville County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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

9 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Herman between 1996 and 2019, burning about 157 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
Natural5
Recreation and ceremony2
Debris and open burning1
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
8 September 2018Natural10 acresCaribou-Targhee National ForestDELLA BASIN
29 September 1996Debris and open burning4.0 acresCaribou-Targhee National ForestBROCKMAN
31 August 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIdaho Falls DistrictSHIRLEY
3 August 2014Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreCaribou-Targhee National ForestDELLA BASIN
7 July 2000Natural4.0 acresGrays Lake National Wildlife RefugeSW GRAYS
3 July 2001Natural5.0 acresCaribou-Targhee National ForestBROCKMAN
27 July 2000Naturalunder an acreCaribou-Targhee National ForestCLEAR CREEK
16 July 2019Naturalunder an acreCaribou-Targhee National ForestWILLOW CREEK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bonneville County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Herman: 8 past producers, 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Copper, Silver, Gold, Uranium. 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
Cinder PitPumicePast Producer
Pittsburg MineGold, Copper, SilverPast ProducerBornite, Chalcopyrite
Uranium Sampling Locality 38Uranium, Coal, Molybdenum, GermaniumOccurrence1952
Copper Queen MineCopper, Silver, GoldPast ProducerBornite, Chalcopyrite
Grays LakeUraniumOccurrence
Monte Cristo MineCopper, Silver, GoldPast Producer
Barnes Creek PlacerGoldPast ProducerPlacer
City Creek Gold PlacerGoldPast ProducerPlacer
Gold PlacersGoldPast Producer
Mccoy Creek Placer IiGoldPast Producer1875

Every working recorded in Bonneville County

Storms near this place

2 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Herman in 2 storm reports between 2009 and 2023: 1 hail, 1 funnel cloud. 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
June 2023Funnel CloudHerman-Funnel cloud seen near Herman.
June 2009HailHerman-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Bonneville 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
Keenan City (historical)4.8 miles16
Gray6.8 miles14
Caribou City (historical)9.2 miles16
Palisades18.4 miles16
Irwin19.8 miles16
Swan Valley22.3 miles16
Dehlin22.4 miles13
Bone22.7 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 396649. 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.