Miller Creek Settlement, Idaho

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1989. It stands in the Duck Valley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 89832. It stands on Miller Creek. The Survey maps it on the Mountain View Lake quadrangle.

Miller Creek Settlement within Owyhee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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 Jordan Valley quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Jordan Valley quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Jordan Valley quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1971 USGS Mountain View Lake quadrangle1:24000
1989 USGS Riddle quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

47 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 47 fires within 5 miles of Miller Creek Settlement between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,712 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 1 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
Debris and open burning	19
Fireworks	8
Natural	7
Smoking	5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Arson/incendiarism	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
7 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	20 acres	Shoshone Paiute Tribes	HWY 51
5 September 2012	Misuse of fire by a minor	2.0 acres	Shoshone Paiute Tribes	BICYCLE
30 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15 acres	Shoshone Paiute Tribes	DEE BAG
27 September 2010	Debris and open burning	21 acres	Shoshone Paiute Tribes	TORCH
23 September 2017	Debris and open burning	2.5 acres	Shoshone Paiute Tribes	BONEYARD
23 September 2011	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Shoshone Paiute Tribes	BEATEN PATH
2 September 2019	Debris and open burning	160 acres	Shoshone Paiute Tribes	MILLER CREEK
18 September 1994	Debris and open burning	140 acres	Shoshone Paiute Tribes	MILLER CR

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Owyhee 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
Riddle	7.3 miles	8
Dickens Place	9.5 miles	7
China Hat	10.1 miles	7
Dew Drop Place	10.5 miles	7
Frost Place	12.5 miles	7
Tindall (historical)	18.2 miles	7
Dans Place	20.5 miles	7
Bengoechea Place	21.4 miles	7

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 Q122569378

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 396897. 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.