BlockOwinza, Idaho
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1971. It stands in the Richfield census division. The Survey maps it on the Owinza quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
3 surveys from 7 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 Twin Falls quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Twin Falls quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1971 USGS Owinza quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
49 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 49 fires within 5 miles of Owinza between 1992 and 2018, burning about 49,280 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 3 were 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 |
|---|---|
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 24 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 10 |
| Natural | 5 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 4 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 September 2003 | Natural | under an acre | Twin Falls District | ID POWER |
| 19 September 2003 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2.0 acres | Twin Falls District | S KIMAMA |
| 1 September 2006 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Twin Falls District | CORRAL RESERVIOR |
| 1 September 1997 | Natural | 146 acres | Twin Falls District | HIDDENVLY2 |
| 7 August 2006 | Natural | 26,622 acres | Twin Falls District | OWINZA |
| 6 August 2008 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5.3 acres | Twin Falls District | OWINZA CROSSING |
| 31 August 1997 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 13 acres | Twin Falls District | HIDDENVLY |
| 29 August 2013 | Equipment and vehicle use | 84 acres | Twin Falls District | HWY24 MM45 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
3 since 2019Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Owinza in 3 storm reports between 2019 and 2024: 3 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Owinza | - | A 60 mph wind gust measured 5 miles north of Owinza. |
| July 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Owinza | - | A 64 mph thunderstorm outflow wind measured north of Owinza. |
| October 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Owinza | - | A 64 mph wind gust measured at the Rock Lake RAWS site. |
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.
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.
| Wikidata item Q122572109 | The 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 396996. 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.