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Blanchard, Idaho

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Blanchard-Glengary census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83804. It stands on Poirier Creek. The Survey maps it on the Blanchard quadrangle. 379 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,267 feet above sea level.

Blanchard within Bonner County

Population over time

2 figures

Blanchard grew from 261 to 379 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010261
2020379+118 (+45%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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

112 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 112 fires within 5 miles of Blanchard between 1992 and 2020, burning about 848 acres in total. 34 started naturally. 2 were 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
Natural34
Debris and open burning29
Missing data/not specified/undetermined20
Equipment and vehicle use12
Recreation and ceremony9
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Arson/incendiarism2
Fireworks2
Smoking1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
8 September 2007Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsCROSSROADS
8 September 2000Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresIdaho Department of LandsCHARGER
7 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined684 acresPend Oreille Area OfficeHUNTER 2
5 September 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsCONVERTER
5 September 1995Naturalunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsDEER TRAIL ROAD
27 September 2009Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersJEFFERSON
24 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsHUMMINGBIRD
20 September 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsTIRE FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bonner County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Blanchard: 4 past producers, 3 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silver, Silica, Iron. 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
GlanderSilicaOccurrence
HannaIron, SilverOccurrence
Hanna ProspectSilverOccurrence
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Paisley PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
SandpitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Bonner County

Storms near this place

4 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Blanchard in 4 storm reports between 2007 and 2023: 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 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
June 2007Thunderstorm WindBlanchard$54,000no account filed
July 2023HailBlanchard$4,000One inch hail reported in Blanchard. The thunderstorm wind also knocked down trees and powerlines near Kelso Lake Road near Spirit Lake and Barrett Road near Priest River.
May 2015HailBlanchard-A trained spotter reported 0.75 inch hail in Blanchard, Idaho.
September 2013Thunderstorm WindBlanchard-Several power lines downed across the southwestern portion of Bonner County.

Every storm recorded in Bonner 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
Coleman4.2 miles17
Harlem9.2 miles17
Clagstone9.4 miles17
Edgemere9.8 miles17
Oldtown11.5 miles13
Thama11.9 miles16
Priest River12.0 miles16
Vay12.9 miles17

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 BlanchardAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3640847The 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 396151. 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.