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Bayview, Idaho

18 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 83803. It lies near Old Doe Draw. The Survey maps it on the Bayview quadrangle. It stands 2,096 feet above sea level.

Bayview within Kootenai County

On record in Bayview

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

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 18 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

64 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 64 fires within 5 miles of Bayview between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,262 acres in total. 17 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
Debris and open burning22
Natural17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Recreation and ceremony7
Fireworks3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Arson/incendiarism1

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 2020Recreation and ceremony1,405 acresIdaho Panhandle National ForestBERNARD
7 September 1995Naturalunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsCAPE HORN PEAK
3 September 2005Naturalunder an acreIdaho Panhandle National ForestSOUTH CHILCO MTN.
25 September 2005Naturalunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsINDIAN GIVER
18 September 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsSIMMS LANE
8 August 2008Naturalunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsBEAK HOUSE
5 August 2004Naturalunder an acreIdaho Panhandle National ForestBERNARD PEAK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kootenai County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 22 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 22 workings within 5 miles of Bayview: 7 past producers, 7 occurrences, 3 producers, 3 unknowns. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Tungsten, Iron, Gold. 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
Bayview Limestone PitLimestone, General, Dolomite, Limestone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Cape HornSilver, Gold, CopperProspect
Cape Horn ProspectCopper, Gold, SilverOccurrenceVein
Lakeview LimestoneLimestone, GeneralPast Producer
North LightGold, Silver, CopperProspect
Pend Oreille DistrictLead, Zinc, Silver, GoldProducerFISSURE VEINS, SHEAR ZONE
Tungsten Occ. #2 Bonner CountyGold, Lead, Silver, TungstenUnknown
Iron OccurrenceIron, GoldOccurrence
Gold Creek Iron DepositIronOccurrence
Gold Creek Iron DepositIronUnknown

Every working recorded in Kootenai County

Storms near this place

4 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bayview in 4 storm reports between 2009 and 2023: 1 flash flood, 1 flood, 1 debris flow, 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
February 2017Debris FlowBayview$10,000East Cape Horn Road near Bayview was washed out cutting off residents for two days while crews repaired the road and removed mud and debris.
August 2009Flash FloodBayview$5,000no account filed
June 2023HailBayview$2,000Observer shared photo on social media of one inch sized hail stone around 1520LST. The storm also knocked out power Northwest of Hope Idaho.
June 2011FloodBayview-Lake Pend Oreille spilled out of its banks flooding portions of Lakeview Avenue in Bayview, ID. The lake enveloped recreational sites, docks, and ramps. There was also minor flooding of yards and the parking lot of the Scenic Bay Marina.

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
Belmont5.6 miles16
Athol8.1 miles16
Wright (historical)9.1 miles16
Corbin Junction10.5 miles16
North Pole11.0 miles16
Chilco12.7 miles17
Ramsey15.4 miles15
Garwood15.4 miles15

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 BayviewAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4874993The 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 396083. 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.