Hydra, Idaho

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Jerome census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83338. The Survey maps it on the Jerome quadrangle.

Hydra within Jerome County

On record in Hydra

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Jay Van Hook Potato Cellarlisted 1983 · 0.1 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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.

1950 USGS Jerome quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1950 USGS Jerome quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1955 USGS Twin Falls quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Twin Falls quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1979 USGS Jerome quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

25 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Hydra between 1995 and 2017, burning about 1,038 acres in total. 1 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
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Recreation and ceremony	3
Fireworks	3
Debris and open burning	3
Natural	1
Smoking	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
22 September 2001	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Twin Falls District	I84MP172
6 August 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Twin Falls District	AUGER
29 August 2000	Equipment and vehicle use	278 acres	Twin Falls District	93JUNCTION
2 August 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	4.0 acres	Twin Falls District	POWER LINE
18 August 1995	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Twin Falls District	APPLIANCE
13 August 2000	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Twin Falls District	YINGSTRD
10 August 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7.9 acres	Twin Falls District	HWY93 MM59
5 July 2012	Fireworks	2.0 acres	Twin Falls District	YINGST GRADE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jerome 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 Hydra: 2 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Pumice. 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
	Cinder Pits	Pumice	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
Haytown (historical)	1.0 miles	11
Jerome	1.7 miles	11
Barrymore	3.2 miles	8
Falls City	5.2 miles	8
Sugar Loaf	7.6 miles	8
Perrine	11.2 miles	8
Hunt	14.3 miles	8
Tipperary Corner	14.4 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 373194. 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.