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Leslie, Idaho

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Mackay census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83255. It stands on Spring Creek. The Survey maps it on the Darlington quadrangle.

Leslie within Custer County

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

2 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Leslie between 1996 and 2002, burning about 2 acres in total. None 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
Smoking1
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
31 July 2002Debris and open burning1.5 acresSalmon-Challis National ForestANDERSON
16 June 1996Smokingunder an acreIdaho Falls DistrictTIMBERED C

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Custer County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Leslie: 2 past producers, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold, Silver, Zinc, Cadmium, Bismuth, Selenium, Thallium, Antimony, Tin, Molybdenum, Mercury, Platinum, Copper, Tellurium, Lead, Arsenic, Silver. 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
Pass CreekSilverProspect
Unnamed Jasperoid OccurrencesGold, Silver, Zinc, Cadmium, Bismuth, Selenium, Thallium, Antimony, Tin, Molybdenum, Mercury, Platinum, Copper, Tellurium, Lead, ArsenicPast ProducerREPLACEMENT

Every working recorded in Custer County

Storms near this place

2 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Leslie in 2 storm reports between 2000 and 2015: 2 hail. 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
July 2000HailLeslie$2,000In addition to the hail which fell in Leslie, winds from the thunderstorm blew a tree onto a transformer in Mackey damaging it which caused a power outage.
June 2015HailLeslie-One inch hail near Leslie, Idaho.

Every storm recorded in Custer 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
Alder City (historical)2.8 miles14
Rothas3.9 miles14
Houston5.9 miles14
Mackay8.4 miles14
White Knob (historical)10.9 miles14
Cliff (historical)11.2 miles14
Grouse14.5 miles12
Lost River14.6 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 396786. 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.

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.