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Sweet, Idaho

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Sweet census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83670. It stands on Yergenson Creek. The Survey maps it on the Montour quadrangle. It stands 2,559 feet above sea level.

Sweet within Gem County

On record in Sweet

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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

18 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Sweet between 1992 and 2018, burning about 16,118 acres in total. 3 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
Equipment and vehicle use5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Debris and open burning3
Natural3
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Recreation and ceremony1
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
25 September 1996Railroad operations and maintenance490 acresBoise DistrictJOHNSON CR
11 September 1999Debris and open burning30 acresIdaho Department of LandsBROWNLEE
30 August 2017Natural51 acresIdaho Department of LandsSWEET
24 August 2013Naturalunder an acreBoise DistrictBUTTE ROAD
2 August 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined30 acresBoise DistrictREGANBUTTE
21 July 1992Debris and open burning200 acresIdaho Department of LandsSWEET
19 July 2016Equipment and vehicle use40 acresIdaho Department of LandsJC
18 July 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresBoise DistrictFROZEN DOG

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Gem 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 Sweet: 3 occurrences, 2 past producers, 1 prospect, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Geothermal, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Dimension, Sand and Gravel, Construction, REE. 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, ConstructionProspect
Johnson CreekREE, Gold, ThoriumOccurrence
Lucky GemUraniumUnknown
Old Liberty GroupSilver, Copper, GoldPast Producer
Rock Quarry MineStone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, DimensionPast Producer
Geothermal LocationGeothermalOccurrence
Roystone Hot SpringGeothermalOccurrence

Every working recorded in Gem County

Storms near this place

5 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sweet in 5 storm reports between 1998 and 2024: 2 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain. 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
November 2024Heavy RainSweet-The mesonet station, OLSI1, at NRAWS 17, measured 1 inch of rain.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindSweet-Davis weather station at Jacobus Ranch.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindSweet-A trained spotter near Ola reported a wind gust of 66 MPH.
June 2010HailSweet-A trained spotter near Ola reported 1 inch hail.
April 1998HailSweet-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Gem 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
Montour3.3 miles15
Marsh (historical)3.8 miles15
Black Canyon7.0 miles15
Plaza7.1 miles15
Pearl8.1 miles15
Emmett11.5 miles15
Aikman (historical)11.6 miles15
Cold House13.5 miles11

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 SweetAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7655152The 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 397232. 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.