Threemile Crossing, Idaho

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the West Salmon Falls census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83321. The Survey maps it on the Browns Bench North quadrangle.

Threemile Crossing within Twin Falls County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 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.

1955 USGS Twin Falls quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Twin Falls quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1978 USGS Browns Bench North quadrangle1:24000
1992 USGS Rogerson quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

12 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Threemile Crossing between 1992 and 2015, burning about 6,467 acres in total. 8 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	8
Debris and open burning	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Firearms and explosives use	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
4 September 2006	Natural	1,258 acres	Twin Falls District	REYNOLDS
18 September 1999	Natural	under an acre	Boise District	CEDARCRRES
1 September 2007	Firearms and explosives use	under an acre	Twin Falls District	CEDAR MESA
28 August 1992	Debris and open burning	25 acres	Boise District	PIGTAIL
2 August 1996	Natural	4,000 acres	Boise District	ANTELOPE
19 August 1992	Natural	30 acres	Boise District	CEDAR CR
15 August 1998	Natural	3.0 acres	Boise District	J.P.S.
10 August 1993	Natural	1.0 acres	Boise District	CEDAR CK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Twin Falls County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Threemile Crossing: 1 producer. All of them 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Twin Falls 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
May Place	3.5 miles	7
Anderson Place	4.6 miles	7
Vosburg Place	4.6 miles	7
Bergstrom Place	5.3 miles	7
Hoelzle Place	5.7 miles	7
Indian Jim Place	6.1 miles	7
Rock House Place	6.8 miles	7
Roseworth	8.8 miles	8

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.

Wikidata item Q122567360

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 397257. 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.