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Orchard, Idaho

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Orchard census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83716. It stands on Bowns Creek. The Survey maps it on the Orchard quadrangle.

Orchard within Ada County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 16 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

573 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 573 fires within 5 miles of Orchard between 1992 and 2020, burning about 11,308 acres in total. 40 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
Equipment and vehicle use275
Firearms and explosives use215
Natural40
Missing data/not specified/undetermined18
Railroad operations and maintenance16
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Fireworks1
Other causes1
Arson/incendiarism1

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 September 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreBoise DistrictOTR 522
9 September 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreBoise DistrictOTR 520
9 September 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreBoise DistrictOTR 521
9 September 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreBoise DistrictOTR 515
9 September 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreBoise DistrictOTR 516
9 September 2017Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresBoise DistrictOTR 517
9 September 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreBoise DistrictOTR 518
9 September 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreBoise DistrictOTR 519

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ada County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Orchard: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Ada County

Storms near this place

6 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Orchard in 6 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 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
July 2025Thunderstorm WindOrchard-Mesonet station IDARNG2_RG14 measured a wind gust of 63 mph as a thunderstorm outflow passed. This outflow continued into Elmore county. No damages were reported.
December 2025Thunderstorm WindOrchard-The Idaho Transportation Department's Valley Interchange weather station south of Hazelton reported a 66 mph gust as a line of showers and embedded thunderstorms move through.
May 2019Funnel CloudOrchard-A photo of a funnel cloud was posted on Facebook.
June 1997Thunderstorm WindOrchard-no account filed
June 1997Funnel CloudOrchard-no account filed
August 1996Thunderstorm WindOrchard-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Ada 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
Regina5.5 miles18
Leone7.4 miles15
Blacks (historical)10.3 miles15
Owyhee11.7 miles16
Neal (historical)11.7 miles18
Blacks Creek12.7 miles16
Pleasant Valley14.7 miles16
Barber17.9 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 396984. 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.