Agatha, Idaho

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Nez Perce census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83541. It lies near Rattlesnake Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Lenore quadrangle.

Agatha within Nez Perce 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.

1955 USGS Pullman quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Pullman quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1961 USGS Kendrick quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1981 USGS Potlatch quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1990 USGS Lenore quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

58 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 58 fires within 5 miles of Agatha between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,988 acres in total. 14 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	17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	17
Natural	14
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Fireworks	1
Recreation and ceremony	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
9 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	25 acres	Nez Perce Tribe	BOULDERL1
6 September 2005	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Nez Perce Tribe	COOK'S GRADE
4 September 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Cottonwood Field Office	HIGHWAY 12
26 September 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	100 acres	Nez Perce Tribe	SUNNYSIDE
23 September 2018	Debris and open burning	6.8 acres	Idaho Department of Lands	PARKS
21 September 1994	Equipment and vehicle use	80 acres	Idaho Department of Lands	HANKS GRADE
18 September 2002	Debris and open burning	300 acres	Idaho Department of Lands	FISH HATCHERY
18 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	35 acres	Cottonwood Field Office	FISH HATCHERY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Nez Perce County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Agatha: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Copper. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Bedrock Creek Limestone Mine	Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Copper	Past Producer	Limestone

Every working recorded in Nez Perce 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
Willola	0.5 miles	10
Lenore	1.4 miles	10
Big George	4.5 miles	10
Eugene	4.8 miles	9
Gifford	4.8 miles	9
Leland	4.9 miles	10
Cherrylane	5.6 miles	10
Taney (historical)	6.4 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 396028. 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.