Ora, Idaho

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1989. It stands in the Island Park census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83420. It stands on Spring Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lemon Lake quadrangle.

Ora within Fremont County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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 Ashton quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Ashton quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Ashton quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Lemon Lake quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1989 USGS Ashton quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

5 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Ora between 1994 and 2016, burning about 178 acres in total. 4 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	4
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
8 September 2010	Natural	70 acres	Idaho Falls District	ARCADIA
8 August 2016	Natural	44 acres	Idaho Falls District	WITT
7 August 2016	Natural	18 acres	Idaho Falls District	FREEMONT COUNTY ASSIST 1
7 August 2016	Natural	46 acres	Idaho Falls District	SPRING
1 July 1994	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Idaho Falls District	MOON

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fremont County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Ora: 5 producers, 1 occurrence. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Geothermal. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Ashton Warm Springs	Geothermal	Occurrence
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Fremont 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
Sarilda	2.7 miles	10
Lodi (historical)	3.8 miles	11
Ashton	4.6 miles	11
Marysville	6.1 miles	11
Chester	6.3 miles	10
Farnum	8.9 miles	9
Twin Groves	9.2 miles	10
Grainville	9.7 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 399170. 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.