Saint Johns, Idaho

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Malad City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83252. It stands on Davis Creek. The Survey maps it on the Malad City West quadrangle.

Saint Johns within Oneida County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 9 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.

1954 USGS Pocatello quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Pocatello quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1968 USGS Malad City West quadrangle1:24000
1984 USGS Malad City quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

21 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Saint Johns between 1992 and 2019, burning about 566 acres in total. 16 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	16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.5 acres	Idaho Falls District	WESTON
25 August 2017	Natural	65 acres	Caribou-Targhee National Forest	ONEIDA COUNTY ASSIST 3
23 August 2017	Natural	10 acres	Idaho Falls District	JOHN EVANS
20 August 2013	Natural	1.0 acres	Caribou-Targhee National Forest	LIME KILN
2 August 1996	Natural	1.5 acres	Idaho Falls District	DEEP CREEK
17 August 2000	Natural	10 acres	Caribou-Targhee National Forest	DUMP
9 July 2014	Natural	under an acre	Caribou-Targhee National Forest	MAPLE HOLLOW
9 July 2014	Natural	under an acre	Caribou-Targhee National Forest	OLD DUMP

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Oneida County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Saint Johns: 7 past producers, 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Geothermal, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Perlite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Oneida Perlite Expanding Plant	Perlite	Past Producer
Borrow Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Borrow Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Geothermal Location	Geothermal	Occurrence
Geothermal Location	Geothermal	Occurrence
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Quarry	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Oneida 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
Malad City	2.7 miles	9
Pleasantview	4.7 miles	9
Gwenford	5.7 miles	9
Samaria	7.0 miles	9
Cherry Creek	8.6 miles	10
Holbrook Summit	9.2 miles	9
Ireland Springs	11.3 miles	9
Daniels	12.7 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 374858. 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.