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Lava Hot Springs, Idaho

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the South Bannock census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83246. It stands on Fish Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lava Hot Springs quadrangle. 358 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,007 feet above sea level.

Lava Hot Springs within Bannock County

On record in Lava Hot Springs

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 4 records

Population over time

2 figures

Lava Hot Springs fell from 407 to 358 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010407
2020358-49 (-12%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 10 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

74 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 74 fires within 5 miles of Lava Hot Springs between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,557 acres in total. 28 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
Natural28
Missing data/not specified/undetermined22
Fireworks15
Equipment and vehicle use3
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Arson/incendiarism2
Debris and open burning1

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
5 September 1995Naturalunder an acreIdaho Falls DistrictMILL CREEK
4 September 1995Naturalunder an acreIdaho Falls DistrictFISH CREEK
3 September 2003Arson/incendiarismunder an acreIdaho Falls DistrictWHEEL
2 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreBannock CountyDEMPSEY
15 September 2000Equipment and vehicle use358 acresIdaho Falls DistrictLAVA III
1 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIdaho Falls DistrictSPORTSMAN ACCESS
9 August 2013Natural132 acresIdaho Falls DistrictFRANSON
8 August 1994Equipment and vehicle use200 acresIdaho Falls DistrictSMITH CYN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bannock County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Lava Hot Springs: 5 occurrences, 4 past producers, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Magnesite, Manganese, Silica, 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Laketown DolomiteStone, MagnesiteProspect
Lava Hot SpringGeothermalOccurrence
Saturday Group OccurrenceSilicaOccurrence
Sunday Group OccurrenceSilicaOccurrence
Fish Haven DolomiteMagnesiteOccurrence
Lava Hot SpringsManganesePast Producer1955
Topaz Dolomite Mining ClaimMagnesiteOccurrenceDolomite
Vanza MineManganesePast ProducerPsilomelane, Pyrolusite
Vanza MineManganesePast Producer

Every working recorded in Bannock 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
Dempsey (historical)0.9 miles12
Topaz (historical)4.0 miles9
Arimo9.4 miles10
McCammon9.9 miles10
Marsh Valley10.4 miles10
Virginia11.9 miles10
Robin12.8 miles10
Cambridge12.9 miles10

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 Lava Hot SpringsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q928523The 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 396772. 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.