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Athol, Idaho

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Spirit Lake-Athol census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83801. The Survey maps it on the Athol quadrangle. 709 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,392 feet above sea level.

Athol within Kootenai County

On record in Athol

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Population over time

3 figures

Athol grew from 180 to 709 between 1920 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
1920180
2010692
2020709+17 (+2%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 16 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

120 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 120 fires within 5 miles of Athol between 1992 and 2020, burning about 212 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 9 were 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 burning51
Missing data/not specified/undetermined22
Arson/incendiarism9
Recreation and ceremony9
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Natural7
Equipment and vehicle use6
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Smoking3
Fireworks3

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
9 September 2006Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsROCK SPRINGS 2
7 September 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsGRANITE HILL
5 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresIdaho Department of LandsARTHUR ROAD
27 September 2000Debris and open burning2.5 acresIdaho Department of LandsBOHN PILE
20 September 1999Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsALICE CT 09
18 September 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsSIMMS LANE
11 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresPend Oreille Area OfficeP PINE
1 September 1998Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresIdaho Department of LandsREMINGTON RD. 17

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kootenai County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Athol: 6 past producers, 4 producers, 2 unknowns. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Kootenai County

Storms near this place

4 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Athol in 4 storm reports between 1997 and 2022: 1 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood, 1 hail. 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
May 1997Tornado (F2)Athol$50,000nws survey team concluded f2 tornado touched down and caused damage to old growth trees
January 2014FloodAthol$10,000A few homes in Athol were surrounded by standing water due to rain, snow melt and frozen soils. Homes that were affected by flood waters were located along Sienna Loop, East Seasons Road and on North Clagstone Road. Damage costs were estimated.
June 2022HailAthol-Observed reporter quarter size hail.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindAthol-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Kootenai 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
Wright (historical)2.6 miles16
North Pole3.5 miles16
Belmont3.9 miles16
Corbin Junction4.0 miles16
Chilco6.2 miles17
Ramsey7.8 miles15
Bayview8.1 miles18
Spirit Lake8.6 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 AtholAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q959366The 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 376763. 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.