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Wayan, Idaho

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Wayan census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83285. It stands on Harrison Creek. The Survey maps it on the Wayan West quadrangle. It stands 6,440 feet above sea level.

Wayan within Caribou County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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

7 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Wayan between 1992 and 2019, burning about 269 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
Natural5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
10 September 2001Naturalunder an acreCaribou-Targhee National ForestOLSEN CREEK
6 August 2009Naturalunder an acreCaribou-Targhee National ForestBRIDGE CREEK
1 August 2000Naturalunder an acreIdaho Falls DistrictGUN SMOKE
30 July 2019Natural268 acresCaribou-Targhee National ForestTINCUP
25 July 1992Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGrays Lake National Wildlife RefugeHAYFIELD
24 July 2018Naturalunder an acreCaribou-Targhee National ForestGRAYS LAKE
21 July 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCaribou-Targhee National ForestTINCUP

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Caribou County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Wayan: 3 occurrences, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Phosphorus-Phosphates, Limestone, Dimension. 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
Limestone OccurrenceLimestone, DimensionUnknown
Phosphate DepositPhosphorus-PhosphatesOccurrence
Phosphate DepositPhosphorus-PhosphatesOccurrence
Phosphate OccurrencePhosphorus-PhosphatesOccurrence

Every working recorded in Caribou County

Storms near this place

2 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wayan in 2 storm reports between 2006 and 2017: 1 hail, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2017FloodWayan-Flooding subsided in April with only minor flooding continuing mainly field sheet flooding in the bird refuge in Wayan.
July 2006HailWayan-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Caribou 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
Old Williamsburg (historical)3.1 miles12
Williamsburg (historical)6.5 miles12
Henry9.5 miles13
Freedom17.7 miles14
Meadowville19.1 miles13
Conda19.1 miles15
Soda Springs25.4 miles15
Rose27.2 miles16

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 WayanAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7975843The 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 392955. 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.