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Paradise Valley Summer Home Area, Idaho

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1989. It stands in the Stibnite census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83611. It stands on Reeves Creek. The Survey maps it on the Warm Lake quadrangle.

Paradise Valley Summer Home Area within Valley County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

134 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 134 fires within 5 miles of Paradise Valley Summer Home Area between 1992 and 2019, burning about 22,912 acres in total. 90 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
Natural90
Recreation and ceremony17
Smoking10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Equipment and vehicle use4
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Debris and open burning2

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
7 September 1998Naturalunder an acreBoise National ForestCURTIS CREEK
6 September 2000Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreBoise National ForestLINE
6 September 1998Naturalunder an acreBoise National ForestBIG CREEK
5 September 2019Power generation/transmission/distribution1.5 acresBoise National ForestLODGE
3 September 1995Naturalunder an acreBoise National ForestTWO BIT
3 September 1995Naturalunder an acreBoise National ForestSIX BIT #2
19 September 1995Naturalunder an acreBoise National ForestAMY SMITH
19 September 1995Naturalunder an acreBoise National ForestPHANTOM

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Valley County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Paradise Valley Summer Home Area: 6 occurrences, 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Geothermal, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Quartz, Stone. 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
Erwin Mickey QuartzQuartzOccurrence
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
QuarryStonePast Producer
Tungsten PointTungstenOccurrence
Geothermal LocationGeothermalOccurrence
Geothermal LocationGeothermalOccurrence
Molly S Hot SpringsGeothermalOccurrence
South Fork PlungeGeothermalOccurrence

Every working recorded in Valley 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
Warm Lake1.2 miles13
Lakeshore Summer Home Area1.6 miles13
Shoreline Drive Summer Home Area1.8 miles13
Kinney Point Summer Home Area2.3 miles13
Landmark6.1 miles12
Arling21.0 miles13
Roseberry21.1 miles13
Yellow Pine22.2 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.

Wikidata item Q122597429The 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 394609. 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.