Riddle, Idaho

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1989. It stands in the Grand View census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83604. It stands on Indian Creek. The Survey maps it on the Riddle quadrangle. It stands 5,367 feet above sea level.

Riddle within Owyhee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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.

1955 USGS Jordan Valley quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Jordan Valley quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Jordan Valley quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1971 USGS Riddle quadrangle1:24000
1989 USGS Riddle quadrangle1:100000

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 Riddle between 1992 and 2018, burning about 3,573 acres in total. 10 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	10
Smoking	2
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Debris and open burning	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
7 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	20 acres	Shoshone Paiute Tribes	HWY 51
25 September 2008	Natural	26 acres	Shoshone Paiute Tribes	BLUE CREEK
15 September 2001	Natural	150 acres	Shoshone Paiute Tribes	PAPOOSE
9 August 2001	Natural	2.5 acres	Shoshone Paiute Tribes	C.CANYON
5 August 1999	Natural	30 acres	Shoshone Paiute Tribes	INDIAN CR
5 August 1999	Natural	166 acres	Boise District	RIDDLE
24 August 2011	Natural	under an acre	Boise District	PAYNE
2 August 2009	Natural	63 acres	Boise District	PIGGY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Owyhee County

Storms near this place

2 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Riddle in 2 storm reports between 1995 and 2009: 1 hail, 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 2009	Tornado (EF0)	Riddle	-	A weak tornado was observed by law enforcement as it moved east northeast across State Highway 51, 4 miles north of the Nevada border. Dust and sage brush were picked up by the tornado and was on the ground for about 1 minute.
July 1995	Hail	Riddle	-	Stong gusty winds downed trees and power lines in Valley and Adams Counties. In Howe, trees were uprooted and the post office suffered wind damage. While in McCall two houses were damaged by the wind as well as a truck that was smashed by a downed tree. Dime-size hail fell at Riddle in Owyhee County.

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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Miller Creek Settlement	7.3 miles	8
Dickens Place	7.8 miles	7
Frost Place	9.0 miles	7
China Hat	10.8 miles	7
Tindall (historical)	13.3 miles	7
Dew Drop Place	14.2 miles	7
Dans Place	15.9 miles	7
Bengoechea Place	16.1 miles	7

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 Riddle	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7332424	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 398043. 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.