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Selby, Idaho

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the East Camas census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83327. The Survey maps it on the Spring Creek Reservoir quadrangle.

Selby within Camas County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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

3 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Selby between 2012 and 2018, burning about 566 acres in total. 2 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
Natural2
Debris and open burning1

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
14 August 2015Natural125 acresTwin Falls DistrictDEER CREEK
2 October 2018Debris and open burning441 acresTwin Falls DistrictPINEY
16 October 2012Naturalunder an acreTwin Falls DistrictDEER CREEK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Camas County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Selby: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Camas County

Storms near this place

1 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Selby in 1 storm report in 2019: 1 funnel cloud. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2019Funnel CloudSelby-A photo of a funnel cloud south of Fairfield was posted in Facebook.

Every storm recorded in Camas 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
Rands3.1 miles11
Fairfield4.3 miles10
Soldier4.7 miles10
Blaine6.1 miles11
Macon8.9 miles11
Punkin Corner10.8 miles10
Corral12.6 miles10
Carrietown18.0 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 398112. 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.