Ireland Springs, Idaho

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Holbrook census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83252. The Survey maps it on the Ireland Springs quadrangle.

Ireland Springs within Oneida County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 9 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.

1954 USGS Pocatello quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Pocatello quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1968 USGS Ireland Springs quadrangle1:24000
1984 USGS Malad City quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

29 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Ireland Springs between 1992 and 2018, burning about 3,235 acres in total. 18 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	18
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Recreation and ceremony	2
Fireworks	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
3 September 2003	Natural	under an acre	Idaho Falls District	RICE
3 September 2003	Natural	under an acre	Idaho Falls District	CHOKECHERR
16 September 2000	Natural	1,184 acres	Idaho Falls District	IRELAND SP
29 August 2011	Natural	135 acres	Idaho Falls District	IRELAND CANYON
20 August 2013	Natural	under an acre	Idaho Falls District	WOOD CANYON
2 August 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Caribou-Targhee National Forest	HUNSAKER 1
2 August 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Caribou-Targhee National Forest	HUNSAKER 2
2 August 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Caribou-Targhee National Forest	HUNSAKER 3

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Oneida 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 Ireland Springs: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
	Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
	Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Oneida 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
Holbrook Summit	2.2 miles	9
Pleasantview	8.4 miles	9
Holbrook	8.4 miles	9
Gwenford	9.0 miles	9
Samaria	9.0 miles	9
Ridgedale	9.8 miles	10
Nelson (historical)	10.3 miles	9
Saint Johns	11.3 miles	9

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.

Wikidata item Q122553228

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 396693. 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.