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Owyhee, 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 83634. The Survey maps it on the Owyhee quadrangle. It stands 2,969 feet above sea level.

Owyhee 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

107 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 107 fires within 5 miles of Owyhee between 1994 and 2020, burning about 17,432 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 4 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
Firearms and explosives use35
Missing data/not specified/undetermined23
Railroad operations and maintenance8
Debris and open burning7
Equipment and vehicle use7
Power generation/transmission/distribution7
Natural6
Recreation and ceremony5
Fireworks4
Arson/incendiarism4
Other causes1

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 2002Arson/incendiarismunder an acreBoise DistrictNEON
30 September 2012Firearms and explosives use325 acresBoise DistrictKRASH
3 September 2006Firearms and explosives use198 acresBoise DistrictBLACKSHOT
28 September 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresBoise DistrictB.C.RESER.
24 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreBoise DistrictRRMP437
22 September 1999Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreBoise DistrictRR MP 430
22 September 1996Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresBoise DistrictDOPPLER
21 September 2012Firearms and explosives use1.0 acresBoise DistrictSPARKY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ada County

Storms near this place

1 since 2022

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Owyhee in 1 storm report in 2022: 1 hail. 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
June 2022HailOwyhee-A Twitter user tagged us in this photo of hail.

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
Pleasant Valley3.1 miles16
Blacks Creek5.3 miles16
Leone5.7 miles15
Mora8.6 miles16
Hillcrest10.1 miles19
Blacks (historical)10.6 miles15
South Boise (historical)11.1 miles19
Barber11.1 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 OwyheeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q117289344The 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 396998. 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.