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Rubicon, Idaho

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 2004. It stands in the New Meadows census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83654. It stands on Little Mud Creek. The Survey maps it on the New Meadows quadrangle.

Rubicon within Adams County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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

80 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 80 fires within 5 miles of Rubicon between 1992 and 2020, burning about 23 acres in total. 55 started naturally. 2 were 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
Natural55
Recreation and ceremony7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Debris and open burning5
Equipment and vehicle use4
Arson/incendiarism2
Smoking1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
9 September 2012Naturalunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsPINE
8 September 1995Naturalunder an acrePayette National ForestEAST BRANCH
6 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsMUD CREEK
5 September 2006Naturalunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsROCK
4 September 2015Naturalunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsRUBICON
26 September 2017Naturalunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsMIDDLE MUD
25 September 2001Naturalunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsTAMARACK
21 September 2017Naturalunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsUPPER MUD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Adams County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Rubicon: 4 past producers, 1 producer, 1 occurrence, 1 unknown. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Manganese, 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Manganese Mts.ManganeseUnknown
New Meadows Manganese DepositManganeseOccurrence
Lost Lake MineStoneProducer
QuarryStonePast Producer
UnknownStonePast Producer

Every working recorded in Adams 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
Tamarack2.1 miles13
Pine Ridge3.1 miles13
Woodland3.7 miles13
New Meadows4.6 miles14
Evergreen6.4 miles13
Meadows6.8 miles13
Stevens9.2 miles14
Starkey10.0 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 397120. 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.