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Reynolds, Idaho

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Murphy census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83650. It lies near Nancy Gulch. The Survey maps it on the Reynolds quadrangle. It stands 3,930 feet above sea level.

Reynolds within Owyhee County

On record in Reynolds

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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

7 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Reynolds between 1995 and 2019, burning about 139 acres in total. 6 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
Natural6
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
4 September 1995Natural10 acresBoise DistrictBOGHOLE
15 September 2001Naturalunder an acreBoise DistrictROCK PILE
12 August 2014Natural119 acresBoise DistrictKOKE
1 August 2005Natural9.0 acresBoise DistrictHOOTANANNY
23 July 2019Naturalunder an acreBoise DistrictDRYDEN
12 June 2019Naturalunder an acreBoise DistrictREYN
14 October 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreBoise DistrictWHISKEY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Owyhee County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Reynolds: 3 past producers, 2 unknowns, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silver, Zinc, Lead, Copper, Lead. 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
Ida BelleLead, Silver, GoldPast Producer
Ida Belle MineSilver, Zinc, Lead, CopperPast ProducerVein
Silver City, War Eagle, FloridaGold, SilverProducerArgentite, Cerargyrite, Chalcopyrite, Galena, Proustite, Pyrargyrite, Pyrite, Sphalerite
Soilife IncPhosphorus-PhosphatesPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Owyhee County

Storms near this place

8 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Reynolds in 8 storm reports between 1997 and 2023: 4 heavy rain, 2 flash flood, 1 flood, 1 hail. 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
June 2023Heavy RainReynolds-The mesonet station, RYCI1, 7.6 miles northwest of Reynolds, ID measured 0.50 inches of heavy rain.
August 2023Heavy RainReynolds-The mesonet station RYCI 7.6 miles northwest of Reynolds, ID measured 0.70 inches of rain.
June 2023Heavy RainReynolds-The mesonet station, RENI1, near Reynolds Creek, measured 0.61 inches of heavy rain 10 miles west of Murphy, ID.
June 2022Heavy RainReynolds-The Mesonet station, RENI1, at Reynolds Creek measured 1.90 inches of total rainfall.
April 1998FloodReynolds-Heavy rains over the Owyhee Mountains caused Reynolds Creek to briefly overflow and flood a roadway in Owyhee County.
September 1997Flash FloodReynolds-Afternoon heavy showers and thunderstorms produced a minor flash flood in Owyhee County. Spotters reported water over the Reynolds Creek Road.
June 2003HailReynolds-no account filed
July 1998Flash FloodReynolds-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Owyhee 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
Democrat7.4 miles14
Slacks Corner8.2 miles13
Petersons Crossing8.9 miles14
Murphy10.2 miles13
Dewey11.2 miles14
Wilson12.1 miles14
Guffey12.4 miles15
Silver City12.7 miles13

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 ReynoldsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q16899252The 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 398039. 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.