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Neeley, Idaho

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1934 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the American Falls census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83211. It stands on Warm Creek. The Survey maps it on the Neeley quadrangle. It stands 4,321 feet above sea level.

Neeley within Power County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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

14 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Neeley between 1998 and 2018, burning about 1,640 acres in total. 7 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
Natural7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Equipment and vehicle use2
Firearms and explosives use1

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
9 August 1998Natural294 acresIdaho Falls DistrictINDIAN
8 August 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIdaho Falls DistrictNEELY
30 August 2015Natural15 acresIdaho Falls DistrictLAKE CHANNEL
17 August 2000Natural43 acresTwin Falls DistrictSNAKERIVER
17 August 2000Natural12 acresTwin Falls DistrictEAGLERCKII
17 August 2000Natural1.0 acresTwin Falls DistrictEAGLEROCKI
13 August 1999Equipment and vehicle use41 acresIdaho Falls DistrictEAGLE ROCK
26 July 2000Natural1.3 acresIdaho Falls DistrictPOWERLINE2

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Power County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Neeley: 3 past producers, 2 occurrences, 2 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Mercury, Gold, Clay, 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
Barite ProspectBarium-Barite, MercuryUnknown
Clay DepositClayOccurrenceClay
Geothermal Location 8S-31E-17GeothermalOccurrence
Big BendGoldPast Producer
Neely Placer DepositGoldPast Producer
Juniper Hill MineMercuryPast Producer1931
Juniper Hills Mining Co.MercuryUnknown

Every working recorded in Power County

Storms near this place

4 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Neeley in 4 storm reports between 1997 and 2020: 2 flash flood, 1 hail, 1 funnel cloud. 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
August 2020Funnel CloudNeeley-Three funnel clouds were spotted near Neely by sheriffs deputy.
August 2014Flash FloodNeeley-Idaho State Police reported accumulating water on interstate 86 near mile post 30. Resources had to be called to remove water from the interstate.
June 1997Flash FloodNeeley-Cold Creek flooded with violently/muddy flows and debris working downstream.
May 1997HailNeeley-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Power 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
American Falls4.8 miles12
Lone Rock5.5 miles12
Quigley8.2 miles10
Fairview8.4 miles12
Rockland11.2 miles13
Bannock13.5 miles11
Schiller16.9 miles11
Michaud19.3 miles14

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 NeeleyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6986801The 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 374109. 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.