Red Rock Junction, Idaho

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the South Bannock census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83234. It stands on Sand Creek. The Survey maps it on the Oxford quadrangle.

Red Rock Junction within Bannock 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.

1954 USGS Pocatello quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Pocatello quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1968 USGS Oxford quadrangle1:24000
1984 USGS Malad City quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

7 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Red Rock Junction between 1992 and 2018, burning about 193 acres in total. 4 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	4
Debris and open burning	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
31 August 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	86 acres	Idaho Falls District	GRANT
26 August 1994	Natural	1.0 acres	Caribou-Targhee National Forest	not named
16 August 1998	Natural	25 acres	Idaho Falls District	SWAN
18 July 2017	Natural	8.8 acres	Idaho Falls District	SAND CREEK
12 April 2000	Natural	2.0 acres	Caribou-Targhee National Forest	DOWNATA
29 October 2018	Debris and open burning	62 acres	Caribou-Targhee National Forest	DOWNATA
17 October 1992	Railroad operations and maintenance	8.0 acres	Idaho Falls District	DOWNATA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bannock 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 Red Rock Junction: 3 occurrences, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Geothermal, Silver, Gold, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Old Mine Workings	Silver, Gold	Occurrence	Vein
Bowen Ranch	Geothermal	Occurrence
Downata Hot Spring	Geothermal	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Bannock 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
Zenda	1.7 miles	10
Downata Hot Springs	3.1 miles	10
Swanlake	3.8 miles	9
Swan Lake	4.2 miles	13
Downey	6.5 miles	10
Cambridge	7.5 miles	10
Virginia	11.4 miles	10
Marsh Valley	12.6 miles	10

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 Q122548070

The 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 397093. 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.