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Juniper, 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 83342. It lies near Glen Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Juniper quadrangle.

Juniper 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.

Fires near this place

34 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 34 fires within 5 miles of Juniper between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,176 acres in total. 18 started naturally. 1 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
Natural18
Equipment and vehicle use9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
8 September 2000Equipment and vehicle use25 acresIdaho Falls DistrictI84MP270
10 September 1994Natural20 acresIdaho Falls DistrictJUNIPER
7 August 2006Equipment and vehicle use43 acresIdaho Falls DistrictBANANA
7 August 1997Naturalunder an acreIdaho Falls DistrictJUNIPER EA
5 August 2006Naturalunder an acreIdaho Falls DistrictAPPLE
3 August 2006Equipment and vehicle use7.0 acresIdaho Falls DistrictSADDLE HORSE
25 August 1995Naturalunder an acreTwin Falls DistrictGLENCANYON
23 August 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresIdaho Falls DistrictJUNIPERVLY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Oneida County

Storms near this place

10 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Juniper in 10 storm reports between 1997 and 2023: 4 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 heavy rain. 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
June 2023Thunderstorm WindJuniper-A 70 mph thunderstorm outflow wind gust measured at interstate 84 Juniper site.
September 2022Thunderstorm WindJuniper-A 59 mph gust measured at Pilot Gold.
May 2020Thunderstorm WindJuniper-A 57 mph wind gust measured at the Juniper interchange ITD site.
August 1997Flash FloodJuniper-4 to 8 feet of water rushed down normally dry streambeds and channels with Interstate 84 exit 263 underpass flooded. Water also flooded over several bridges, across roads and yards. A Juniper resident commented that this was the worse storm he had seen in 60 years.
August 1997HailJuniper-Golfball-size hail.
August 1997HailJuniper-Dime to Quarter-size hail accummulated 1 to 2 inches in Juniper area. Hail destroyed wheat crop in area, completely stripped leaves from trees, and broke a car windsheild and truck mirror.
August 1997Heavy RainJuniper-1.9 inches of rain measured by storm spotter.
August 1997HailJuniper-Quarter to Golfball-size hail.
August 2003Flash FloodJuniper-no account filed
July 2002HailJuniper-no account filed

Every storm 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Black Pine5.6 miles9
Roy Summit14.4 miles9
Cedarhill14.9 miles9
Holbrook16.8 miles9
Stone17.4 miles9
Nelson (historical)17.4 miles9
Buist22.7 miles9
Ireland Springs25.2 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 396724. 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.

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.