Hunt, Idaho

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Hunt census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83338. The Survey maps it on the Hunt quadrangle.

Hunt within Jerome County

On record in Hunt

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Minidoka Internment National Monumentlisted 1979

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 Twin Falls quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Twin Falls quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1964 USGS Perrine quadrangle1:24000
1979 USGS Twin Falls NE quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

37 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 37 fires within 5 miles of Hunt between 1992 and 2020, burning about 7,830 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
Equipment and vehicle use	12
Natural	8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Power generation/transmission/distribution	5
Debris and open burning	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Arson/incendiarism	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
25 September 2003	Arson/incendiarism	872 acres	Twin Falls District	HWY25MM17
19 September 2017	Power generation/transmission/distribution	8.0 acres	Twin Falls District	SUGAR LOAF
14 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	5,176 acres	Twin Falls District	WILSON
13 September 2009	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Twin Falls District	EDEN
27 August 1992	Equipment and vehicle use	75 acres	Twin Falls District	HWY25MP15W
24 August 1999	Natural	1.5 acres	Twin Falls District	GOOSELAKE
22 August 2005	Natural	12 acres	Twin Falls District	HWY25 MM16
20 August 1996	Railroad operations and maintenance	10 acres	Twin Falls District	GOOSE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jerome County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Hunt: 3 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. 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
Clay Caves	Clay	Unknown
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

Every working recorded in Jerome 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
Perrine	3.9 miles	8
Eden	5.4 miles	8
Sugar Loaf	6.8 miles	8
Tipperary Corner	7.3 miles	8
Hillsdale (historical)	7.3 miles	8
Hazelton	8.3 miles	8
Falls City	9.2 miles	8
Barrymore	11.3 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 396679. 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.