Rickard Crossing, Idaho

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.

• 1955 USGS Jordan Valley quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1957 USGS Jordan Valley quadrangle1:250000
• 1958 USGS Jordan Valley quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1973 USGS Brace Flat quadrangle1:24000
• 1989 USGS Riddle quadrangle1:100000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Rickard Crossing between 2011 and 2016, burning about 698 acres in total. 2 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Every fire recorded in Owyhee County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 397099. 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.