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Pebble, Idaho

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Bancroft census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83217. It stands on Pebble Creek. The Survey maps it on the Bancroft quadrangle. It stands 5,276 feet above sea level.

Pebble within Caribou County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 9 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

15 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Pebble between 1994 and 2016, burning about 802 acres in total. 9 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
Natural9
Recreation and ceremony2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
10 September 2002Power generation/transmission/distribution5.0 acresIdaho Falls DistrictLAVA
5 August 2012Equipment and vehicle use134 acresIdaho Falls DistrictKELLY CREEK
28 August 1996Natural1.0 acresCaribou-Targhee National ForestBOB SMITH #2
27 August 1996Naturalunder an acreCaribou-Targhee National ForestHORNET
21 August 2009Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreIdaho Falls DistrictHOBO
17 August 2016Naturalunder an acreCaribou-Targhee National ForestCHERRY
14 August 2003Naturalunder an acreCaribou-Targhee National ForestWOOD
10 August 2000Natural1.0 acresIdaho Falls DistrictPEBBLE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Caribou County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Pebble: 2 prospects, 1 occurrence, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Magnesite, Silica, Aluminum. 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
PortneufLimestone, GeneralPast Producer
Wonder Insulation Building Stone QuarrySilica, AluminumOccurrence
Garden City DolomiteStone, MagnesiteProspect
Garden City LimestoneStone, MagnesiteProspect

Every working recorded in Caribou County

Storms near this place

1 since 2024

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pebble in 1 storm report in 2024: 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2024Thunderstorm WindPebble-A 59 mph wind gust at Pebble.

Every storm recorded in Caribou 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
Kinport3.2 miles12
Bancroft6.3 miles12
Lund9.2 miles12
Hatch9.4 miles12
Chesterfield10.0 miles12
Talmage12.2 miles12
Central12.5 miles12
Turner15.0 miles12

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 Q133430798The 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 397018. 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.