Indian Valley, Idaho

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Council census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83632. The Survey maps it on the Indian Valley quadrangle. It stands 3,002 feet above sea level.

Indian Valley within Adams 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.

1911 USGS Meadows quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1954 USGS Council quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1955 USGS Baker quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1959 USGS Baker quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1980 USGS McCall quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Indian Valley quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

10 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Indian Valley between 2000 and 2020, burning about 26,504 acres in total. 6 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	6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Equipment and vehicle use	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
2 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8.5 acres	Payette National Forest	BACON
4 August 2002	Natural	654 acres	Payette National Forest	KING HILL
4 August 2000	Natural	271 acres	Boise District	BEN ROSS
30 August 2007	Natural	24,900 acres	Payette National Forest	GRAY'S CREEK
27 August 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Payette National Forest	MESA FIRE
19 August 2008	Natural	98 acres	Payette National Forest	INDIAN VALLEY
1 August 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	430 acres	Payette National Forest	INDIAN VALLEY
1 August 2009	Natural	101 acres	Payette National Forest	COTTONWOOD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Adams 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 Indian Valley: 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Diatomite. 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
	Diatomite Occurrence	Diatomite	Occurrence	Sedimentary
	Indian Valley	Diatomite	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Adams 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
Hillsdale (historical)	3.3 miles	13
Alpine	4.1 miles	13
Mesa	5.0 miles	14
Bacon	8.1 miles	11
Goodrich	9.3 miles	11
Beer Bottle Crossing	11.3 miles	14
Council	11.9 miles	14
Hoover	13.5 miles	14

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 Indian Valley	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6021800	The 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 373244. 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.