Woodruff, Idaho

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Malad City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83252. It stands on Muddy Creek. The Survey maps it on the Henderson Creek quadrangle. It stands 4,479 feet above sea level.

Woodruff within Oneida County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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.

1954 USGS Pocatello quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Pocatello quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1968 USGS Henderson Creek quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1984 USGS Malad City quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

40 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 40 fires within 5 miles of Woodruff between 1992 and 2017, burning about 1,579 acres in total. 27 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	27
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10
Equipment and vehicle use	2
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
8 September 1997	Natural	10 acres	Caribou-Targhee National Forest	BURNETT CANYON
7 September 1997	Natural	under an acre	Idaho Falls District	BRUSH CYN
20 September 2009	Natural	21 acres	Caribou-Targhee National Forest	NIEL
20 September 2009	Natural	under an acre	Caribou-Targhee National Forest	BURNETT CANYON
17 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	390 acres	Idaho Falls District	BRUSH CANYON
16 September 2000	Natural	328 acres	Idaho Falls District	BRUSH CYN
1 September 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	100 acres	Utah Division Forestry Fire State Lands	PORTAGE CANYON ENTRANCE
6 August 1999	Natural	under an acre	Caribou-Targhee National Forest	CANNON

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Oneida County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Woodruff: 5 occurrences, 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Geothermal, Iron, Gold. 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	Recorded
Williams Property	Iron, Gold	Occurrence
Price S Hot Spring	Geothermal	Occurrence
Woodruff Hot Spring	Geothermal	Occurrence
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Limekiln Knoll Gravel	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence	Unconsolidated Sediments
Limekiln Knoll Gravel	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence
R. Nelson Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Unconsolidated Sediments
R.Nelson Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Oneida 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
Cherry Creek	4.4 miles	10
Samaria	8.6 miles	9
Gwenford	9.2 miles	9
Pleasantview	10.5 miles	9
Malad City	10.9 miles	9
Saint Johns	12.9 miles	9
Ridgedale	14.1 miles	10
Holbrook Summit	15.5 miles	9

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 Woodruff	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q30623333	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 398384. 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.