Prairie, Idaho

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Atlanta census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83647. It stands on Louse Creek. The Survey maps it on the Prairie quadrangle.

Prairie within Elmore County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 17 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.

1894 USGS Idaho Basin quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1894 USGS Idaho City quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1955 USGS Hailey quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1959 USGS Hailey quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Hailey quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Prairie quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1982 USGS Idaho City quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

34 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 34 fires within 5 miles of Prairie between 1992 and 2018, burning about 75 acres in total. 25 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
Natural	25
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Recreation and ceremony	2
Debris and open burning	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
30 September 1992	Natural	under an acre	Boise National Forest	not named
16 September 2008	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Boise National Forest	159J
13 September 2001	Natural	under an acre	Boise National Forest	GRAVES CREEK
13 September 2001	Natural	under an acre	Boise National Forest	ROCKY
11 September 1997	Natural	under an acre	Boise National Forest	WILLIAMS CREEK
7 August 2013	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Boise National Forest	ADEN
4 August 1993	Natural	under an acre	Boise National Forest	not named
30 August 2009	Natural	under an acre	Boise National Forest	BUCK CREEK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Elmore County

Storms near this place

4 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Prairie in 4 storm reports between 2014 and 2023: 2 hail, 1 flood, 1 heavy rain. 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
August 2023	Heavy Rain	Prairie	-	The mesonet station PRAI1 0.6 miles northeast of Prairie measured 1.30 inches of rain.
July 2019	Hail	Prairie	-	The COOP observer at Prairie reported large hail up to 1.25 inches. The hail shredded trees and damaged vehicles.
August 2019	Hail	Prairie	-	A video report was posted on Facebook.
August 2014	Flood	Prairie	-	Neals Bridge on Prairie Road has been compromised due to flooding.

Every storm recorded in Elmore 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Reclamation Village	12.5 miles	16
Pine	14.0 miles	16
Dixie	14.6 miles	16
Paradise Hot Springs	16.3 miles	16
Featherville	18.2 miles	16
Mayfield	18.4 miles	18
Rocky Bar	19.7 miles	14
Spanish Town (historical)	22.0 miles	14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 397067. 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.