BlockOlsen, Idaho
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Atomic City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83221. The Survey maps it on the Olsen quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 9 printed sheetsMatched 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 Idaho Falls quadrangle1:250000, 5 printings
- 1958 USGS Idaho Falls quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1973 USGS Olsen quadrangle1:24000
- 1978 USGS Blackfoot quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
8 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Olsen between 1995 and 2020, burning about 452 acres in total. None 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 August 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4.2 acres | Idaho Falls District | BINGHAM COUNTY ASSIST 5 |
| 6 August 2013 | Equipment and vehicle use | 16 acres | Idaho Falls District | 600 |
| 3 August 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 25 acres | Bingham County | BINGHAM COUNTY ASSIST 2 |
| 25 August 2003 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Idaho Falls District | 290 |
| 17 August 1995 | Recreation and ceremony | 400 acres | Idaho Falls District | SPRINGFLD |
| 16 August 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Idaho Falls District | BIGNHAM COUNTY ASSIST 3 |
| 26 July 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Idaho Falls District | BINGHAM COUNTY ASSIST 2 |
| 22 July 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.5 acres | Idaho Falls District | TABER |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 396982. 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.