Jenkins Will, Idaho
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1989. It stands in the Island Park census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83445. The Survey maps it on the Big Grassy Ridge quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 9 printed sheetsMatched 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 Ashton quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Ashton quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Ashton quadrangle1:250000
- 1972 USGS Big Grassy Ridge quadrangle1:24000
- 1989 USGS Ashton quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
8 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Jenkins Will between 1994 and 2020, burning about 100,197 acres in total. 5 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 | 5 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 September 1996 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 1.0 acres | Idaho Falls District | PORTNEUFR. |
| 8 August 1998 | Natural | 101 acres | Idaho Falls District | TAYLORWELL |
| 1 August 2000 | Natural | 9.9 acres | Idaho Falls District | SECOND SAN |
| 5 July 1994 | Natural | 55 acres | Idaho Falls District | JUNIPER |
| 31 July 1997 | Debris and open burning | 4.1 acres | Idaho Falls District | GRASSY |
| 26 July 2018 | Natural | 99,502 acres | Idaho Falls District | GRASSY RIDGE |
| 15 July 1996 | Natural | under an acre | Idaho Falls District | DUNES |
| 2 November 2020 | Debris and open burning | 524 acres | Fremont County | GRASSY |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Egin | 11.7 miles | 10 | |
| Heman | 12.0 miles | 10 | |
| Parker | 13.5 miles | 10 | |
| Pyke | 14.9 miles | 10 | |
| Bedstead Corner | 16.4 miles | 9 | |
| Saint Anthony | 16.6 miles | 10 | |
| Wilford | 18.8 miles | 10 | |
| Twin Groves | 19.0 miles | 10 |
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 Q122562705 | 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 396704. 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.




