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Wardboro, Idaho

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the Montpelier census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83254. The Survey maps it on the Montpelier quadrangle. It stands 5,951 feet above sea level.

Wardboro within Bear Lake County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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.

Fires near this place

8 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Wardboro between 1994 and 2019, burning about 578 acres in total. 2 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/undetermined4
Natural2
Debris and open burning1
Smoking1

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

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
5 August 2000Natural30 acresIdaho Falls DistrictBEAR LAKE
2 August 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresIdaho Falls DistrictSHEEP CREEK
28 July 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined49 acresIdaho Falls DistrictBNK VLY II
26 July 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreBear Lake National Wildlife RefugeTOUR ROUTE
13 July 2001Natural1.0 acresIdaho Falls DistrictCEMETARY
12 July 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined321 acresIdaho Falls DistrictBANKSVALLY
14 March 1994Smoking160 acresIdaho Falls DistrictMONTPELIER
4 October 2019Debris and open burning12 acresBear Lake National Wildlife RefugeCARP

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bear Lake County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Wardboro: 4 past producers, 3 occurrences, 1 producer, 1 prospect. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Copper, Limestone, General. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Montpelier Limestone QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast Producer1908
Waterloo MinePhosphorus-Phosphates, Oil Shale, Fluorine-Fluorite, REE, Uranium, VanadiumPast Producer1907
Bonneville GroupCopperPast ProducerReplacement
Claire Mining CoCopperPast Producer
Bear Lake PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Department of Highways, Pit No 011aSand and Gravel, ConstructionProspect
Phosphate DepositPhosphorus-PhosphatesOccurrence
Unnamed LocationSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Unnamed LocationPhosphorus-PhosphatesOccurrence

Every working recorded in Bear Lake County

Storms near this place

2 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wardboro in 2 storm reports between 2011 and 2013: 1 hail, 1 tornado. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2013Tornado (EF0)Wardboro-Tornado spotted by public who took photograph of tornado 3 miles west southwest of Wardboro in between Paris and Dingle. No damage reported as tornado occurred in open area. Tornado was on the ground at approximately 7:30 pm MDT.
June 2011HailWardboro-Trained spotter reported 1.75 inch hail in Wardboro.

Every storm recorded in Bear Lake 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Dingle2.6 miles13
Montpelier4.7 miles13
Ovid6.8 miles13
Paris6.9 miles15
Alton6.9 miles12
Harer7.2 miles12
Bloomington7.9 miles15
Bern8.2 miles13

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 WardboroAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7969110The 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 392830. 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.