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Avery, Idaho

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1914 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Avery-Clarkia census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83802. It stands on Kelley Creek. The Survey maps it on the Avery quadrangle. It stands 2,486 feet above sea level.

Avery within Shoshone County

On record in Avery

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 8 records

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 12 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

34 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 34 fires within 5 miles of Avery between 1992 and 2017, burning about 56 acres in total. 24 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
Natural24
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Recreation and ceremony2
Other causes1
Arson/incendiarism1
Debris and open burning1

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
8 September 2006Naturalunder an acreIdaho Panhandle National ForestSTETSON
7 September 2013Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreIdaho Panhandle National Forest186
7 September 2006Natural3.5 acresIdaho Panhandle National ForestAVERY HILL
5 September 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreIdaho Panhandle National ForestAVERY DUMPSTER
3 September 1994Naturalunder an acreIdaho Panhandle National Forestnot named
20 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined19 acresIdaho Panhandle National Forestnot named
2 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIdaho Panhandle National Forestnot named
6 August 2010Naturalunder an acreIdaho Panhandle National ForestFISHHOOK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Shoshone County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Avery: 5 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Copper, Gold, Silver, Lead, Copper, Zinc. 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
Cougar GroupCopper, GoldOccurrence
Setser ProspectSilver, Lead, Copper, ZincOccurrenceChalcopyrite, Galena, Sphalerite
Setser ProspectZinc, Lead, CopperOccurrence
Kelley Creek ProspectCopperOccurrenceChalcopyrite
Kelley Creek ProspectCopperOccurrence

Every working recorded in Shoshone County

Storms near this place

1 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Avery in 1 storm report in 2016: 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
June 2016HailAvery-A member of the public reported 1 inch size hail covering the ground with estimated 45 mph winds at Avery, Idaho.

Every storm recorded in Shoshone 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
Stetson2.9 miles12
Ethelton5.3 miles12
Horsecamp5.8 miles10
Kyle (historical)5.9 miles12
Hoyt6.0 miles12
Bogle7.9 miles12
Pearson8.2 miles12
Falcon9.7 miles12

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 AveryAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q761379The 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 396059. 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.