Blackbird, Idaho

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1989. It stands in the Forney census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83226. It stands on Deep Creek. The Survey maps it on the Cobalt quadrangle.

Blackbird within Lemhi County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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.

1950 USGS Leesburg quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1951 USGS Leesburg quadrangle1:62500
1956 USGS Elk City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1960 USGS Elk City quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1982 USGS Bighorn Crags quadrangle1:100000
1989 USGS Cobalt quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

11 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Blackbird between 1994 and 2020, burning about 1,093 acres in total. 9 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.

Reported cause	Fires
Natural	9
Recreation and ceremony	1
Smoking	1

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

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
9 August 1994	Natural	1,090 acres	Salmon-Challis National Forest	POWERLINE
31 August 2017	Natural	under an acre	Salmon-Challis National Forest	DEEP CREEK
31 August 1996	Natural	under an acre	Salmon-Challis National Forest	COPPER
26 August 2013	Natural	under an acre	Salmon-Challis National Forest	TRAPPER
15 August 1998	Natural	under an acre	Salmon-Challis National Forest	BLACKBIRD
13 August 2015	Natural	under an acre	Salmon-Challis National Forest	MOCCASIN
29 July 2012	Natural	under an acre	Salmon-Challis National Forest	DEEP
21 July 1999	Natural	under an acre	Salmon-Challis National Forest	COPPER CREEK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Cobalt

Every fire recorded in Lemhi County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 36 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 36 workings within 5 miles of Blackbird: 22 occurrences, 9 past producers, 3 unknowns, 2 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Copper, Nickel, Cobalt. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Black Pine Project	Copper, Cobalt, Silver, Gold, Nickel	Past Producer	Chalcopyrite, Bornite, Chalcocite, Covellite, Malachite
Blue Jay	Lead	Prospect
Haynes-Stellite Mine	Cobalt, Copper, Nickel, Uranium	Past Producer	1900, 1917
Jureano Claims	Thorium, Uranium	Occurrence	Allanite, Uraninite
Napias Creek Placer Area	Gold, Silver, REE	Past Producer
Patty B Property	Copper, Nickel, Cobalt	Occurrence	Chalcopyrite, Cobaltite, Pyrrhotite
Ringbone Cayuse Mine	Lead, Silver, Copper, Gold	Past Producer	1902
Allanite Occurrence	Thorium	Occurrence	1925
Beliel Group	Cobalt, Copper, Gold, Nickel	Occurrence	1901
Belilel Claims	Copper, Cobalt, Nickel	Past Producer	1900

Every working recorded in Lemhi 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Cobalt	1.5 miles	10
Leesburg	9.5 miles	10
Forney	10.0 miles	10
Williams Lake Resort	15.2 miles	12
Salmon	17.7 miles	13
Shoup	18.4 miles	10
Yellowjacket	18.9 miles	12
Carmen	19.5 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 395891. 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.