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Stone, Idaho

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Holbrook census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83252. The Survey maps it on the Stone quadrangle. It stands 4,567 feet above sea level.

Stone 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.

Fires near this place

43 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 43 fires within 5 miles of Stone between 1992 and 2018, burning about 1,814 acres in total. 23 started naturally. 1 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
Natural23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Equipment and vehicle use6
Arson/incendiarism1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
17 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsCAT'S SMOKE IN TREE
14 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsSNOWVILLE LANDFILL
10 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsSNOWVILLE
7 August 2008Natural1.5 acresIdaho Falls DistrictGRANDINE
5 August 2004Naturalunder an acreIdaho Falls DistrictSTONE 2
30 August 2001Natural4.5 acresSalt Lake Field OfficeBALLY
23 August 2017Natural90 acresUtah Division Forestry Fire State LandsHURD
21 August 2011Natural2.5 acresIdaho Falls DistrictGRANDINE 2

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Oneida County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Stone: 3 producers, 3 past producers. 3 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
J.C. Harris PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
Jc Harris Pit No.02145Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Snow Pass GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
Snow Pass GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Snowville PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerUnconsolidated Sediments
Snowville PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Oneida County

Storms near this place

5 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Stone in 5 storm reports between 2005 and 2020: 1 hail, 1 tornado, 1 heavy rain, 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
June 2020Thunderstorm WindStone-Large tree limbs downed in Stone with shingles removed from one home.
May 2018Funnel CloudStone-Several photographs from the public showed a funnel cloud near the Utah and Idaho border near interstate 84 just north of Snowville, Utah. The funnel nearly reached the ground.
August 2014Heavy RainStone-Farmers and ranchers in Oneida County were declared by the USDA to qualify for natural disaster assistance due to crop damage from heavy August rains. Eastern Idaho barley crop damage was estimated at 64 million dollars with a portion of that in Oneida County.
May 2005Tornado (F0)Stone-Tornado touching ground east of Stone over mountains.
May 2005HailStone-no account filed

Every storm 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Nelson (historical)4.9 miles9
Holbrook10.3 miles9
Ridgedale11.4 miles10
Ireland Springs14.7 miles9
Black Pine15.6 miles9
Holbrook Summit16.4 miles9
Juniper17.4 miles9
Cedarhill17.4 miles9

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 StoneAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7618820The 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 398190. 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.