Highbridge, Idaho

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the East Clark census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83423. It stands on Dry Creek. The Survey maps it on the Spencer South quadrangle.

Highbridge within Clark County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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 Dubois quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Dubois quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1972 USGS Spencer South quadrangle1:24000
1983 USGS Dubois quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

14 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Highbridge between 1993 and 2018, burning about 1,837 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
Railroad operations and maintenance	6
Natural	5
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
26 August 1999	Railroad operations and maintenance	1.0 acres	Idaho Falls District	RAILROAD
2 August 1997	Railroad operations and maintenance	16 acres	Idaho Falls District	SHEEP ONE
2 August 1997	Railroad operations and maintenance	2.1 acres	Idaho Falls District	SHEEP TWO
2 August 1997	Railroad operations and maintenance	2.1 acres	Idaho Falls District	SHEEPTHREE
2 August 1997	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Idaho Falls District	SHEEP FOUR
17 August 2018	Natural	20 acres	Caribou-Targhee National Forest	SHEEP 1
17 August 2018	Natural	5.0 acres	Caribou-Targhee National Forest	SHEEP 2
17 August 2018	Natural	20 acres	Caribou-Targhee National Forest	SHEEP 3

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clark 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 Highbridge: 2 unknowns. None of them still produces. 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
	Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

Every working recorded in Clark 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
Spencer	5.5 miles	8
Dubois	7.4 miles	8
Old Beaver	8.8 miles	8
Jones Crossing	13.6 miles	9
Humphrey	14.2 miles	8
Eighteenmile	16.5 miles	9
Idmon	16.8 miles	9
Kilgore	18.8 miles	9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 399579. 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.