Idaho, Ohio
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1915 and the latest in 1986. It stands in Pebble Township. It lies in ZIP code area 45661. It stands on Leeth Creek. The Survey maps it on the Latham quadrangle.
Then and now
1915 to 1986The same ground, surveyed 71 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Topographic sheets covering this place
15 sheetsMatched 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.
- 1915 USGS Piketon quadrangle1:62500
- 1917 USGS Piketon quadrangle1:62500
- 1917 USGS Piketon quadrangle1:62500
- 1944 USGS Piketon quadrangle1:62500
- 1947 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Latham quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Latham quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Latham quadrangle1:24000
- 1961 USGS Latham quadrangle1:24000
- 1962 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
- 1986 USGS Hillsboro quadrangle1:100000
- 1986 USGS Hillsboro quadrangle1:100000
Fires nearby
67 since 2003The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 67 fires within 5 miles of Idaho between 2003 and 2020, burning about 106 acres in total. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 35 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 24 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 September 2017 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 9187 |
| 22 September 2016 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 5607 |
| 9 August 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 15227 |
| 24 August 2007 | Natural | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 21 August 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 19 August 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 19 August 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | not named |
| 3 May 2017 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Ohio Department of Natural Resources | 8126 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Specimens collected nearby
12 of 1,725 shownMuseums hold 1,725 specimens collected within 10 miles of Idaho between 1889 and 1975: 1,549 Animalia, 126 Fungi, 45 Plantae, 3 Protozoa, 2 Unrecorded. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A VERWYST, A. Braun, Allen, E. (Ed) and others. Each is a physical object with a catalogue number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be concluded from a species being absent.
| Image | Species | Year | Collected by | Where, as recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Aecidium compositarum Rabenh. | 1896 | F.L. Stevens | Columbus |
![]() | Leptodea fragilis (Rafinesque, 1820) | 1909 | not recorded | Scioto River, Piketon |
![]() | Truncilla truncata Rafinesque, 1820 | 1909 | not recorded | Piketon, Scioto River |
![]() | Asterella tenella (L.) P.Beauv. | 1889 | C. J. Herrick | Waverly |
![]() | Lanius ludovicianus migrans W.Palmer, 1898 | 1889 | not recorded | Waverly, Ohio, USA |
![]() | Accipiter cooperii (Bonaparte, 1828) | 1898 | not recorded | Waverly, Ohio, USA |
![]() | Agelaius phoeniceus (Linnaeus, 1766) | 1898 | not recorded | Waverly, Ohio, USA |
![]() | Ammodramus savannarum (J.F.Gmelin, 1789) | 1898 | Henninger, W. F. (Walther Frederick) | Waverly, Ohio, USA |
![]() | Asio flammeus (Pontoppidan, 1763) | 1898 | Henninger, W. F. (Walther Frederick) | Piketon, Ohio, USA |
![]() | Astragalinus Cabanis, 1851 | 1898 | not recorded | Waverly, Ohio, USA |
![]() | Baeolophus bicolor (Linnaeus, 1766) | 1898 | Clayton, W. M. | Piketon, Ohio, USA |
![]() | Butorides virescens (Linnaeus, 1758) | 1898 | Henninger, W. F. (Walther Frederick) | Waverly, Ohio, USA |
All 1,725 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
Storms nearby
19 since 1998The National Weather Service names Idaho in 19 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 10 thunderstorm wind, 7 flood, 2 flash flood. The reports record 1 death. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 2019 | Flood | Idaho | 1 killed, $5,000 | The body of a man was found near his vehicle on Ohio Route 124, near the intersection of Ohio Route 772. The vehicle was found almost 700 feet inside signs placed in the roadway marking the road closed. Water inside the vehicle indicated that is had been at least half submerged in water. M58VE. |
| February 2022 | Flood | Idaho | $10,000 | Portions of State Route 124 were closed due to high water. A water rescue was needed for a stranded driver. |
| June 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Idaho | $10,000 | A roof was blown off of a trailer. |
| June 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Idaho | $10,000 | Numerous trees were downed due to damaging thunderstorm winds. |
| May 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Idaho | $4,000 | Several trees were downed. |
| June 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Idaho | $3,000 | Numerous trees were knocked down. |
| July 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Idaho | $3,000 | Trees were downed along McCoy Road. |
| June 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Idaho | $3,000 | Numerous trees downed. |
| May 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Idaho | $1,000 | A tree was knocked down near the intersection of Ohio Routes 772 and 124. |
| May 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Idaho | $1,000 | A tree was downed on Red Bridge Road due to thunderstorm winds. |
| December 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Idaho | $1,000 | Two trees were downed due to thunderstorm winds. |
| May 2010 | Flash Flood | Idaho | $1,000 | A road was closed a half mile from Idaho due to high water. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Idaho | $1,000 | Intense thunderstorm winds began to pick up the back end of a light pickup truck that the trained spotter was driving. |
| February 2025 | Flood | Idaho | - | High water was reported on State Route 124 near State Route 772. |
| January 2023 | Flood | Idaho | - | High water was reported along Red Bridge Road. |
| March 2021 | Flood | Idaho | - | State Route 124 near Idaho was closed due to high water. |
| July 2021 | Flash Flood | Idaho | - | Several roads were closed in the Idaho area due to high water. Rising water forced some evacuations from a few homes. |
| February 2019 | Flood | Idaho | - | A road was closed due to high water. |
| February 2019 | Flood | Idaho | - | State Route 124 at Idaho was closed due to flooding. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stony Ridge (historical) | 2.4 miles | 15 | |
| Tennyson | 2.5 miles | 15 | |
| Elm Grove | 3.1 miles | 15 | |
| Pleasant Valley | 3.2 miles | 15 | |
| Morgantown | 4.1 miles | 14 | |
| Buchanan | 4.4 miles | 14 | |
| Daleyville | 4.8 miles | 15 | |
| Jasper | 5.2 miles | 15 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1041911. 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.
Specimens. Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), https://www.gbif.org/. Only records licensed CC0 or CC BY are used. Records licensed CC BY-NC are excluded because this site carries advertising. Images are checked individually and any whose licence is non-commercial, no-derivatives or unreadable is refused.
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.


























