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Magic City, Idaho

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Hailey-Bellevue census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83313. The Survey maps it on the Magic Reservoir East quadrangle.

Magic City within Blaine County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

43 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 43 fires within 5 miles of Magic City between 1994 and 2020, burning about 21,844 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 5 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
Equipment and vehicle use15
Natural9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Arson/incendiarism5
Fireworks3
Recreation and ceremony2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
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
6 September 2006Naturalunder an acreTwin Falls DistrictRATTLESNAKE
29 September 2000Arson/incendiarism8.0 acresTwin Falls DistrictHWY20MP175
12 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTwin Falls DistrictMOONSTONE
12 September 1996Natural15 acresTwin Falls DistrictMAMMOTH
6 August 1996Natural7.0 acresTwin Falls DistrictWESTMAGIC
31 August 2009Equipment and vehicle use29 acresTwin Falls DistrictDITTO HILL
14 August 2000Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresTwin Falls DistrictEASTMAGIC
14 August 2000Arson/incendiarism21 acresTwin Falls DistrictHWY20

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Blaine County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Magic City: 5 past producers, 4 occurrences, 2 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Pumice, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Geothermal. 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
Big JohnGold, Silver, Zinc, Lead, CopperPast Producer
Big John ClaimsLead, Silver, GoldOccurrenceVein
Dead Sheep CreekThoriumUnknown
Geothermal LocationGeothermalOccurrence
Mattair-Powell ProspectLead, Zinc, Silver, GoldPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Sunite Pumice MinePumicePast ProducerPumice
Sunite Pumice MinePumiceUnknown
Unnamed LocationGoldOccurrence

Every working recorded in Blaine County

Storms near this place

1 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Magic City in 1 storm report in 2017: 1 flood. 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
April 2017FloodMagic City-Continued releases from Magic Reservoir closed West Magic Road due to flooding on the 1st and 2nd and only short openings on the 3rd through the 5th to allow residents of West Magic Village to get to work. By the end of the first week of April residents had open travel access to the West Magic Village.

Every storm recorded in Blaine 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
Magic Resort1.4 miles10
Stanton Crossing3.8 miles10
Doniphan10.4 miles10
Gannett11.1 miles8
Bullion12.6 miles10
Broadford13.2 miles12
Bellevue13.2 miles12
Picabo15.8 miles7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 396837. 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.