Banner, Idaho

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.

• 1909 USGS Garden Valley quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
• 1957 USGS Challis quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1960 USGS Challis quadrangle1:250000
• 1963 USGS Challis quadrangle1:250000
• 1972 USGS Lowman quadrangle1:24000
• 1982 USGS Deadwood River quadrangle1:100000
• 1989 USGS Challis quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 73 fires within 5 miles of Banner between 1992 and 2020, burning about 912 acres in total. 61 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Crouch
• Garden Valley
• Grimes Pass
• Long Creek Summit Home
• Lowman
• Pioneerville

Every fire recorded in Boise County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Banner: 4 occurrences, 4 past producers, 3 producers, 1 unknown. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Silver, Gold, Geothermal. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Boise County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 399359. 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.