Wilford, Idaho

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the St. Anthony census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83445. The Survey maps it on the Saint Anthony quadrangle.

Wilford within Fremont County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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.

1950 USGS St Anthony quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1955 USGS Driggs quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Driggs quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Driggs quadrangle1:250000
1988 USGS Rexburg quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

5 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Wilford between 1994 and 2012, burning about 9 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Recreation and ceremony	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Arson/incendiarism	1
Debris and open burning	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
20 September 2012	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Idaho Falls District	RIVERBOTTOM
26 June 1994	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Idaho Falls District	ST.ANTHONY
6 May 2001	Recreation and ceremony	4.0 acres	Idaho Falls District	RAILROAD
11 May 1996	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Idaho Falls District	SALEM
19 April 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Idaho Falls District	HENRY'S #2

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fremont County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Wilford: 6 producers, 5 past producers, 1 unknown, 1 prospect. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Geothermal. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Geothermal Location	Geothermal	Occurrence
Village of Newdale	Geothermal	Prospect
Garrett Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Fremont 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
Teton	1.8 miles	10
Saint Anthony	3.7 miles	10
Pyke	4.1 miles	10
Newdale	4.3 miles	10
Twin Groves	5.0 miles	10
Parker	5.3 miles	10
Heman	7.0 miles	10
Chester	8.3 miles	10

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 Wilford	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q48851747	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 398359. 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.