BlockRoy, Idaho
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Rockland census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83271. It lies near Trail Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Roy quadrangle. It stands 5,108 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 9 printed sheetsMatched 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
- 1973 USGS Roy quadrangle1:24000
- 1984 USGS Malad City quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
12 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Roy between 1992 and 2018, burning about 10,376 acres in total. 3 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Debris and open burning | 3 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 September 1992 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Idaho Falls District | TRASH PILE |
| 19 September 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 407 acres | Idaho Falls District | TRAIL CANYON |
| 19 September 2001 | Debris and open burning | 250 acres | Caribou-Targhee National Forest | KRESS |
| 16 September 2003 | Debris and open burning | 520 acres | Caribou-Targhee National Forest | HANSON |
| 6 August 2007 | Equipment and vehicle use | 7,654 acres | Idaho Falls District | COMBINE |
| 4 August 2007 | Natural | 474 acres | Idaho Falls District | STEWART |
| 27 August 2007 | Equipment and vehicle use | 120 acres | Idaho Falls District | SIDE CANYON |
| 25 August 1999 | Equipment and vehicle use | 545 acres | Idaho Falls District | COW CREEK |
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Roy: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Power County Highways | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
6 since 2017Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Roy in 6 storm reports between 2017 and 2025: 2 flood, 2 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 2017 | Flood | Roy | $329,000 | A warmup in February caused extensive sheet flooding throughout Power County damaging roads and closing many of them in the 8th through 12th time period. Teh Interstate 86 exit 44 for Seagull Bay was closed due to water on the roadway along with several county roads as well. |
| March 2017 | Flood | Roy | $25,000 | Flooding continued in March although the severity decreased substantially from February. Had a lot of minor basement flooding and damage and continued road damage from the snow melt. |
| August 2022 | Flash Flood | Roy | $4,000 | Flash flooding occurred north of Roy due to an inch of rain. Minor road damage on Lawery Lane with the South Fork Rock Creek and Simms Rd showing damage. Debris was reported across Idaho route 37 by a local farmer. A basement also was reported flooded. |
| September 2025 | Hail | Roy | - | Hail along Side Canyon Rd. Covered the ground. |
| August 2021 | Flash Flood | Roy | - | Idaho Transportation Department reported water running across Idaho Highwy 37 between Lawery Lane and Cow Canyon Road. |
| August 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Roy | - | A 77 mph thunderstorm wind gust measured 14 miles north northwest of Holbrook or near Roy. |
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.
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 Roy | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7372486 | 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 389685. 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.