Sam, Idaho

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Driggs census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83422. It stands on Bell Creek. The Survey maps it on the Garns Mountain quadrangle.

Sam within Teton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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.

1943 USGS Garns Mtn quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1946 USGS Garns Mtn quadrangle1:62500
1955 USGS Driggs quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Driggs quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Driggs quadrangle1:250000
1978 USGS Garns Mtn quadrangle1:24000
1978 USGS Garns Mtn. quadrangle1:24000
1988 USGS Rexburg quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

24 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Sam between 1992 and 2020, burning about 109 acres in total. 11 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	11
Recreation and ceremony	8
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Debris and open burning	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 1992	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Caribou-Targhee National Forest	not named
16 September 1997	Natural	under an acre	Caribou-Targhee National Forest	GRANDVIEW
8 August 1994	Natural	under an acre	Caribou-Targhee National Forest	not named
27 August 2003	Natural	under an acre	Caribou-Targhee National Forest	STIMPSON
25 August 1996	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Caribou-Targhee National Forest	PACKSADDLE
24 August 2010	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Caribou-Targhee National Forest	PACK SADDLE
22 August 2003	Natural	under an acre	Caribou-Targhee National Forest	NORTH FORK
2 August 2014	Natural	under an acre	Caribou-Targhee National Forest	ELK FLAT

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Teton County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Sam: 6 occurrences, 2 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Phosphorus-Phosphates, Limestone, General, Chromium, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Vanadium, Vanadium, Phosphorus-Phosphates. 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	Recorded
Cluff Tunnels	Bituminous, Uranium	Occurrence	Sedimentary
Trench D Phosphate Occurrence	Vanadium, Phosphorus-Phosphates	Occurrence
Trench E Phosphate Occurrence	Chromium, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Vanadium	Occurrence
Packsaddle Basin Limestone	Limestone, General	Occurrence
Packsaddle Basin Limestone Deposit	Limestone, General	Occurrence	Limestone
Phosphate Occurrence	Phosphorus-Phosphates	Occurrence
Unnamed Prospect	Phosphorus-Phosphates	Prospect
Unnamed Prospect	Phosphorus-Phosphates	Prospect

Every working recorded in Teton 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
Bates	5.8 miles	13
Twin Forks	5.9 miles	13
Two Forks	6.7 miles	13
Cache	8.8 miles	10
Cedron	9.0 miles	13
Haden (historical)	9.8 miles	10
Tetonia	10.1 miles	10
Driggs	10.2 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 397132. 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.