BlockTendoy, Idaho
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1989. It stands in the Leadore census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83468. It stands on Agency Creek. The Survey maps it on the Tendoy quadrangle. It stands 4,843 feet above sea level.
On record in Tendoy
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 2 records
Lemhi PassNational Historic Landmark · listed 1966- First Flag Unfurling Site, Lewis and Clark Traillisted 1975
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 11 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.
- 1955 USGS Dubois quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Lemhi quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Dubois quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1980 USGS Leadore quadrangle1:100000
- 1989 USGS Tendoy quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
5 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Tendoy between 1998 and 2010, burning about 6 acres in total. 5 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 | 5 |
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 August 2005 | Natural | under an acre | Idaho Falls District | HAYNES CR |
| 8 August 2010 | Natural | under an acre | Idaho Falls District | PATTEE |
| 4 August 2000 | Natural | under an acre | Idaho Falls District | AGENCY |
| 26 August 2002 | Natural | under an acre | Idaho Falls District | CHIEF TEND |
| 21 August 1998 | Natural | 5.0 acres | Idaho Falls District | AGENCY |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 32 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 32 workings within 5 miles of Tendoy: 16 occurrences, 6 prospects, 5 unknowns, 4 past producers. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Thorium, Copper, Thorium, REE, Silver. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Calumet | Copper, Silver, Lignite | Prospect | ||
| Elkhorn Group | Quartz | Prospect | ||
| Last Chance Prospect | Uranium, Thorium, Copper | Occurrence | Vein | |
| McDevitt District | Copper, Gold | Producer | SHEAR ZONE | |
| Montana Special Claims | Thorium, Lead | Occurrence | 1957 | |
| Scott | Silver, Lead, Zinc, Thorium, REE | Past Producer | ||
| Sharkey Hot Springs | Geothermal | Occurrence | ||
| Silver Queen Claims | Silver, Uranium, Thorium, Gold, Lead | Occurrence | ||
| Sunnyside Manganese Prospect | Manganese | Prospect | ||
| Viola Claim Group | Uranium, Thorium | Occurrence | 1955 |
Storms near this place
1 since 2026Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tendoy in 1 storm report in 2026: 1 flood. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 2026 | Flood | Tendoy | - | The Lemhi River exceeded action stage on the 27th and reached minor flood stage on the 28th. This caused yard flooding south of Tendoy, between Mabee Lane and McDevitt Creek Road, though no homes were impacted. The river crested at 7.07 feet at 2:00 PM MST on the 29th at the Lemhi River near Lemhi gauge, then receded that evening as ice broke up. |
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.
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 Tendoy | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7699656 | The 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 398226. 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.