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Boehls, Idaho

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1923 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Elk River census division. It stands on Breakfast Creek. The Survey maps it on the Township Butte quadrangle.

Boehls within Clearwater County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 15 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

134 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 134 fires within 5 miles of Boehls between 1992 and 2020, burning about 129 acres in total. 124 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
Natural124
Recreation and ceremony7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
5 September 2014Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsGLEASON
3 September 2002Naturalunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsYELLOW BEAR
20 September 2011Naturalunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsNO SEE UM RIDGE
16 September 2020Recreation and ceremony3.0 acresIdaho Department of LandsCEDAR
16 September 2001Natural1.0 acresIdaho Department of LandsWF ROONEY CR
16 September 2001Naturalunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsDENNIS SDL
16 September 2001Naturalunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsSMITH 3
16 September 2001Naturalunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsBRFST CR

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clearwater County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Boehls: 4 occurrences, 1 past producer, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Kyanite, Beryllium, Gold, Kyanite, 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
Cedar CreekAluminum, Calcium, Sodium, Iron, SilicaProspect1952
Meadows Creek PlacerGoldPast ProducerPlacer
Stocking MeadowsBeryllium, Kyanite, IronOccurrence
Boehls Butte Kyanite ProspectKyaniteOccurrenceMetamorphic
Smith Ridge Kyanite DepositKyaniteOccurrenceContact Metamorphic
Stocking Meadows OccurrenceBerylliumOccurrenceBeryl

Every working recorded in Clearwater 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
Bingo Creek Landing12.1 miles10
Isabella Landing14.7 miles10
Elk River15.8 miles10
Headquarters17.6 miles14
Kameron19.8 miles11
Cardiff21.3 miles14
Neva21.4 miles11
Five Corners21.5 miles11

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 Q122568224The 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 377987. 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.