Houston, Idaho

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Mackay census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83251. It stands on Willow Creek. The Survey maps it on the Mackay quadrangle.

Houston within Custer County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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.

1935 USGS MacKay quadrangle1:96000
1940 USGS Mackay quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1955 USGS Idaho Falls quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
1958 USGS Idaho Falls quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1960 USGS Mackay quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1988 USGS Arco quadrangle1:100000
1991 USGS Mackay quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

8 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Houston between 1993 and 2015, burning about 121 acres in total. 4 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	4
Debris and open burning	2
Smoking	1
Other causes	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
21 September 2002	Other causes	73 acres	Twin Falls District	CLIFF
4 July 2013	Natural	40 acres	Salmon-Challis National Forest	CLIFF
31 July 2002	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	Salmon-Challis National Forest	ANDERSON
30 July 1994	Natural	under an acre	Salmon-Challis National Forest	not named
22 July 2015	Natural	5.0 acres	Twin Falls District	MINE HILL
20 July 1993	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Salmon-Challis National Forest	not named
16 June 1996	Smoking	under an acre	Idaho Falls District	TIMBERED C
15 June 2003	Natural	under an acre	Twin Falls District	MINE HILL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Custer County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Houston: 5 past producers, 4 prospects, 2 occurrences, 2 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Lead, Silver, Stone, Dimension, Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Empire Mine	Gold, Copper, Silver, Zinc, Molybdenum, Tungsten, Lead	Past Producer	1884, 1902
Grand Prize Mine	Lead, Silver, Gold, Copper	Past Producer	Vein
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Houston Clay Occurrence	Clay	Occurrence	Surface
Mackay Area Lead-Zinc-Copper	Lead, Zinc, Copper	Unknown
Mackay District	Copper, Tungsten	Occurrence	SKARN
One and Only One Prospect	Tungsten	Prospect
Saddle Magnetite Prospect	Iron, Copper	Past Producer	Magnetite
Sultana Project	Silver, Gold, Copper, Molybdenum	Prospect	Bornite, Chalcocite, Chalcopyrite, Covellite, Cuprite, Galena, Malachite, Molybdenite, Scheelite, Sphalerite, Tenorite, Tetrahedrite, Powellite
Vaught Prospect	Molybdenum, Tungsten	Prospect	Contact Metamorphic

Every working recorded in Custer 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
Rothas	2.2 miles	14
Mackay	2.9 miles	14
Alder City (historical)	3.1 miles	14
White Knob (historical)	5.0 miles	14
Cliff (historical)	5.4 miles	14
Leslie	5.9 miles	10
Grouse	13.6 miles	12
Lost River	13.7 miles	12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 396674. 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.