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Mink Creek, Idaho

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 2005. It stands in the Mink Creek census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83263. It stands on Birch Creek. The Survey maps it on the Mink Creek quadrangle. It stands 5,148 feet above sea level.

Mink Creek within Franklin County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 14 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

19 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Mink Creek between 1992 and 2020, burning about 5,460 acres in total. 10 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
Natural10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Equipment and vehicle use1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.5 acresIdaho Falls DistrictONEIDA NARROWS
5 September 2015Naturalunder an acreCaribou-Targhee National ForestWORM CREEK
21 September 2001Power generation/transmission/distribution782 acresIdaho Falls DistrictONEIDA
19 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined911 acresIdaho Falls DistrictONEIDA
6 August 1992Natural5.0 acresIdaho Falls DistrictONEIDA 4
4 August 1992Natural20 acresIdaho Falls DistrictONEIDA 3
14 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUpper Snake Field OfficeONEIDA DAM
14 August 1996Natural120 acresIdaho Falls DistrictONEIDA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Franklin County

Storms near this place

1 since 2023

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mink Creek in 1 storm report in 2023: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 2023Thunderstorm WindMink Creek-The Treasureton Summit ITD site recorded 58 mph wind gust.

Every storm recorded in Franklin 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
Oneida Station3.2 miles13
Glendale6.8 miles14
Treasureton7.4 miles13
Cleveland7.7 miles13
Riverdale7.9 miles13
Mound Valley8.9 miles13
Mapleton10.1 miles15
Egypt11.1 miles12

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 Mink CreekAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6867797The 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 396904. 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.

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.