Tikura, Idaho

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Hailey-Bellevue census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83320. The Survey maps it on the Tikura quadrangle.

Tikura within Blaine 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.

1955 USGS Hailey quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1959 USGS Hailey quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Hailey quadrangle1:250000
1979 USGS Tikura quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

15 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Tikura between 1997 and 2020, burning about 36,400 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
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Debris and open burning	2
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
3 September 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	107 acres	Twin Falls District	OLD STATE
20 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Twin Falls District	HWY93MP194
31 August 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	92 acres	Twin Falls District	TIKURA
20 August 2011	Natural	472 acres	Twin Falls District	PICABO
10 August 2003	Power generation/transmission/distribution	1,500 acres	Twin Falls District	FOOTHILLS
9 July 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	26 acres	Twin Falls District	192
8 July 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Twin Falls District	TAYLOR
26 July 1998	Natural	5.0 acres	Twin Falls District	TIKURA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Blaine 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
Picabo	6.9 miles	7
Carey	7.4 miles	9
Leduc (historical)	8.4 miles	7
Gannett	13.2 miles	8
Stanton Crossing	17.7 miles	10
Magic City	19.4 miles	10
Magic Resort	20.5 miles	10
Bellevue	21.6 miles	12

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 Q122565062

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 398246. 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.