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Bear Creek Summer Home Area, Idaho

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1989. It stands in the Garden Valley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83637. It stands on Bear Creek. The Survey maps it on the Grandjean quadrangle.

Bear Creek Summer Home Area within Boise County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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

75 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 75 fires within 5 miles of Bear Creek Summer Home Area between 1992 and 2020, burning about 14,339 acres in total. 54 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
Natural54
Recreation and ceremony8
Equipment and vehicle use4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Debris and open burning2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Smoking1
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
7 September 1998Naturalunder an acreSawtooth National ForestGREENBACK
5 September 2006Naturalunder an acreBoise National ForestWOLF RIDGE
5 September 2006Natural3.0 acresBoise National ForestFOX
5 September 2006Natural1.2 acresBoise National ForestCANYON CREEK
3 September 1995Naturalunder an acreBoise National ForestCHAPMAN #2
3 September 1995Naturalunder an acreBoise National ForestHIYU CREEK
3 September 1995Naturalunder an acreBoise National ForestWAPITI FLAT
28 September 2003Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreBoise National ForestSACAJAWEA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Boise County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 16 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Bear Creek Summer Home Area: 10 occurrences, 4 prospects, 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Gold, Silver, Silver, Lead. 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
Bear Creek Prospect # 1Gold, Silver, Molybdenum, LeadOccurrence
Bear Creek Prospect # 2Gold, Zinc, Silver, Bismuth, Copper, Molybdenum, Lead, TinOccurrence
Bear Creek Prospect No. 1Gold, Silver, Molybdenum, LeadOccurrenceVein
Bear Creek Prospect No. 2Molybdenum, Bismuth, Lead, Zinc, Copper, Silver, GoldOccurrence
Canyon Creek PlacersNiobium (Columbium), Gold, REE, TitaniumOccurrence
Greenback MineGold, Lead, SilverPast Producer1903
Murray PropertyPlatinumProspect
Payette PlacerGarnet, Zirconium, Thorium, Tantalum, Niobium (Columbium), Gold, UraniumOccurrencePlacer
Payette Placer AreaGold, Uranium, PGEProspect
Ridge ProspectsGold, Silver, Lead, Bismuth, Molybdenum, BerylliumOccurrenceVein

Every working recorded in Boise 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
Camp Creek Summer Home Area1.6 miles17
Graham (historical)14.3 miles14
Long Creek Summit Home20.5 miles12
Banner20.7 miles11
Lowman23.3 miles11
Tenmile Summer Home Area33.2 miles18
Washington Mill35.4 miles19
Grimes Pass36.2 miles13

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.

Wikidata item Q122550975The 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 394043. 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.