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Huston, Idaho

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1898 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Huston census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83607. It lies near Lower Deer Flat. The Survey maps it on the Marsing quadrangle. It stands 2,520 feet above sea level.

Huston within Canyon County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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

15 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Huston between 1992 and 2019, burning about 51 acres in total. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Fireworks2
Arson/incendiarism2
Recreation and ceremony1
Natural1
Debris and open burning1

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
22 September 2008Naturalunder an acreDeer Flat National Wildlife RefugeORCHARD
10 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresBoise DistrictCLARKS
22 August 1992Debris and open burning2.0 acresDeer Flat National Wildlife RefugeY66 BLDG
21 August 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined35 acresBoise DistrictCENTRLCOVE
5 July 1994Fireworksunder an acreDeer Flat National Wildlife RefugeSEVEN
4 July 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreDeer Flat National Wildlife RefugeDAM
2 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreBoise DistrictMURPH
2 July 1994Fireworksunder an acreDeer Flat National Wildlife RefugeLAUNCHER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Canyon County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 18 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 18 workings within 5 miles of Huston: 10 unknowns, 3 producers, 3 past producers, 2 occurrences. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Volcanic Materials, Clay, 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
Marsing ClayClayProducer
Rock Tepe MineStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Cinder DepositVolcanic MaterialsOccurrence
Cinder DepositVolcanic MaterialsOccurrence
Cinder PitVolcanic MaterialsUnknown
Cinder PitVolcanic MaterialsUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Canyon County

Storms near this place

2 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Huston in 2 storm reports between 2006 and 2023: 1 hail, 1 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 2023Thunderstorm WindHuston-Two boats capsized from thunderstorm outflow wind and subsequent waves on Lake Lowell. One person had to be rescued.
May 2006HailHuston-Sunnyslope Market

Every storm recorded in Canyon 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
Sunnyslope1.6 miles13
Doles4.1 miles13
Central Cove4.2 miles13
Weitz4.3 miles13
Knowlton Heights4.5 miles13
Greenleaf4.6 miles13
Simplot4.9 miles13
Underkoflers Corner5.9 miles13

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.

Wikipedia article on HustonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5950030The 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 396682. 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.