Big Creek, Idaho

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

• Big Creek Commissarylisted 2000

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.

• 1937 USGS Big Creek quadrangle1:62500
• 1937 USGS Big Creek quadrangle1:48000
• 1942 USGS Big Creek quadrangle1:62500
• 1956 USGS Elk City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1960 USGS Elk City quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1969 USGS Big Creek quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1981 USGS Warren quadrangle1:100000
• 2004 USGS Big Creek quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Big Creek between 1992 and 2019, burning about 6,314 acres in total. 25 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:

• Edwardsburg

Every fire recorded in Valley County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 99 workings within 5 miles of Big Creek: 55 occurrences, 20 prospects, 17 past producers, 3 producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Tungsten, Silver, Antimony. 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 Valley 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 396113. 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.