Last Chance, Idaho

11 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 83429. It stands on Blue Spring Creek. The Survey maps it on the Last Chance quadrangle. It stands 6,152 feet above sea level.

Last Chance within Fremont County

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.

1955 USGS Ashton quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Ashton quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Ashton quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Last Chance quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1989 USGS Ashton quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

26 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of Last Chance between 1992 and 2020, burning about 15 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 2 were 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	12
Recreation and ceremony	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Smoking	2
Arson/incendiarism	2
Debris and open burning	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
24 September 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Caribou-Targhee National Forest	BUFFALO
16 September 2010	Natural	under an acre	Caribou-Targhee National Forest	ECCLES
14 September 2010	Natural	under an acre	Caribou-Targhee National Forest	MOONSHINE
10 September 2012	Natural	1.0 acres	Caribou-Targhee National Forest	ECCLES
7 August 2003	Natural	2.0 acres	Caribou-Targhee National Forest	RIPLEY
7 August 1992	Smoking	under an acre	Caribou-Targhee National Forest	not named
31 August 1996	Natural	8.0 acres	Caribou-Targhee National Forest	ECCLES
3 August 1999	Natural	under an acre	Caribou-Targhee National Forest	THURMON

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fremont County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Last Chance: 5 past producers, 1 producer. 1 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Fremont 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
Box Canyon	0.9 miles	11
Island Park	4.3 miles	11
Eccles	6.0 miles	10
Trude	7.2 miles	11
Rea	7.3 miles	11
Pineview	7.4 miles	10
Flat Rock	9.9 miles	12
Big Springs	11.9 miles	11

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 Last Chance	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6494175	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 396770. 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.