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Picabo, Idaho

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1962. It stands in the Hailey-Bellevue census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83348. It lies near Baker Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Picabo quadrangle. It stands 4,836 feet above sea level.

Picabo within Blaine County

Topographic sheets covering this place

3 surveys from 7 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 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Picabo between 1992 and 2017, burning about 17,808 acres in total. 7 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
Natural7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Debris and open burning1
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
8 August 2017Natural1.0 acresTwin Falls DistrictQUEENS CROWN
27 August 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined14,869 acresTwin Falls DistrictNATURE
24 August 2013Naturalunder an acreTwin Falls DistrictPICABO
21 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresTwin Falls DistrictRURAL ASSIST 8
2 August 1999Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTwin Falls DistrictHWY20MP191
10 August 2003Power generation/transmission/distribution1,500 acresTwin Falls DistrictFOOTHILLS
7 July 2002Natural15 acresTwin Falls DistrictPICABO
7 July 2002Naturalunder an acreTwin Falls DistrictQUEENCROWN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Blaine County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Picabo: 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Pumice, Volcanic Materials. 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
Pumicite Deposit ProspectVolcanic MaterialsOccurrence
Pumicite ProspectPumiceOccurrence

Every working recorded in Blaine County

Storms near this place

5 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Picabo in 5 storm reports between 1996 and 2006: 2 wildfire, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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
October 2006Tornado (F0)Picabo-Tornado touched down near Picabo in open land. No damage occurred.
August 2002Thunderstorm WindPicabo-Several trees blown over by thunderstorm winds.
August 2003Thunderstorm WindPicabo-no account filed
August 2003WildfirePicabo-no account filed
July 1996WildfirePicabo-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Blaine 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
Leduc (historical)1.6 miles7
Carey6.5 miles9
Gannett6.8 miles8
Tikura6.9 miles9
Stanton Crossing13.1 miles10
Bellevue14.9 miles12
Magic City15.8 miles10
Broadford16.0 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.

Wikipedia article on PicaboAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7190479The 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 397029. 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.