Rock House Place, Idaho

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the West Salmon Falls census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83302. The Survey maps it on the Browns Bench North quadrangle.

Rock House Place within Twin Falls County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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 Twin Falls quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Twin Falls quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1978 USGS Browns Bench North quadrangle1:24000
1992 USGS Rogerson 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 Rock House Place between 1992 and 2015, burning about 3,922 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Recreation and ceremony	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
6 September 1998	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Twin Falls District	SALFALLS
4 September 2006	Natural	1,258 acres	Twin Falls District	REYNOLDS
8 August 2013	Natural	under an acre	Sawtooth National Forest	MARTIN CREEK
8 August 2008	Natural	3.0 acres	Idaho Falls District	SALMON FALLS 1
8 August 2008	Natural	under an acre	Idaho Falls District	SALMON FALLS 2
6 August 2010	Natural	1,729 acres	Twin Falls District	CHINA MOUNTAIN
19 August 1992	Natural	30 acres	Boise District	CEDAR CR
16 August 2010	Natural	17 acres	Twin Falls District	BROWNS BENCH

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Twin Falls 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
Vosburg Place	2.3 miles	7
May Place	6.1 miles	7
Harrell Place	6.6 miles	7
Threemile Crossing	6.8 miles	7
Indian Jim Place	7.0 miles	7
Bergstrom Place	8.4 miles	7
Hoelzle Place	9.3 miles	7
Duncan Place	9.6 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.

Wikidata item Q122565471

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 397107. 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.