BlockTalmage, Idaho
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1948 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Bancroft census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83217. The Survey maps it on the Talmage quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 12 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1948 USGS Bancroft quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1949 USGS Bancroft quadrangle1:62500
- 1955 USGS Preston quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Preston quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Preston quadrangle1:250000
- 1982 USGS Soda Springs quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1982 USGS Talmage quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
12 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Talmage between 1992 and 2018, burning about 960 acres in total. 4 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
| Natural | 4 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Other causes | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 1995 | Equipment and vehicle use | 140 acres | Idaho Falls District | SWENSON |
| 23 September 1992 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 230 acres | Idaho Falls District | N GRACE |
| 2 September 1994 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 145 acres | Idaho Falls District | ALEXANDER |
| 17 September 2000 | Natural | under an acre | Idaho Falls District | SODA POINT |
| 6 August 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 201 acres | Idaho Falls District | GRACE |
| 12 August 1995 | Other causes | 50 acres | Idaho Falls District | SODA HILLS |
| 27 July 2001 | Natural | 51 acres | Idaho Falls District | RAIN |
| 25 July 2006 | Natural | under an acre | Idaho Falls District | WINDMILL FLAT |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 397236. 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.