Vernon, Idaho

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 within a mile 2 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

• Old Idaho State Penitentiarylisted 1974 · 0.8 miles away
• Joseph Bown Houselisted 1979 · 0.9 miles away

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.

• 1892 USGS Boise quadrangle1:125000
• 1897 USGS Boise quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
• 1954 USGS Boise quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1954 USGS Boise South quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1955 USGS Boise quadrangle1:250000
• 1958 USGS Boise quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1962 USGS Boise quadrangle1:250000
• 1972 USGS Boise South quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
• 1981 USGS Boise quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 60 fires within 5 miles of Vernon between 1992 and 2020, burning about 22,480 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 4 were 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• South Boise (historical)
• Hillcrest
• Barber
• Boise
• Boise Hills Village
• Highlands

Every fire recorded in Ada County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 58 workings within 5 miles of Vernon: 38 past producers, 7 producers, 5 unknowns, 5 prospects. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold, Silver, Stone, Dimension. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Ada County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 398303. 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.