Mexican Place, Idaho

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Cottonwood census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83522. It lies near White Bird Ridge. The Survey maps it on the Wolf Creek quadrangle.

Mexican Place within Idaho 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.

1955 USGS Grangeville quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1959 USGS Grangeville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1963 USGS Wolf Creek quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1980 USGS Grangeville quadrangle1:100000

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 Mexican Place between 1992 and 2020, burning about 5,368 acres in total. 28 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
Natural	28
Debris and open burning	3
Recreation and ceremony	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
9 September 2013	Natural	under an acre	Idaho Department of Lands	GIBBONS CANYON
7 September 2013	Natural	under an acre	Idaho Department of Lands	PILGRIM
19 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.9 acres	Craig Mountain Area Office	RICE CREEK
18 September 1996	Recreation and ceremony	80 acres	Idaho Department of Lands	WAY DOWN GETTA
7 August 1999	Natural	under an acre	Idaho Department of Lands	WOLF CREEK
6 August 2003	Natural	under an acre	Idaho Department of Lands	SOUTH CAMP
6 August 2003	Natural	under an acre	Cottonwood Field Office	HIGH BREAKS
6 August 2003	Natural	under an acre	Cottonwood Field Office	LOW BREAK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Idaho County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Mexican Place: 1 past producer. None of them 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.

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

Every working recorded in Idaho 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
Joseph	1.9 miles	8
Davidson	5.2 miles	9
Boles	6.7 miles	9
Canfield	7.3 miles	10
Copperville	10.5 miles	10
Taylor	10.9 miles	10
White Bird	11.5 miles	10
Keuterville	15.7 miles	8

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.

Wikidata item Q122563831

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 397904. 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.