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Bovill, Idaho

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Deary-Bovill census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83806. It stands on Moose Creek. The Survey maps it on the Bovill quadrangle. 191 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,874 feet above sea level.

Bovill within Latah County

On record in Bovill

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 3 records

Population over time

2 figures

Bovill fell from 260 to 191 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
2010260
2020191-69 (-27%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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

45 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 45 fires within 5 miles of Bovill between 1992 and 2020, burning about 24 acres in total. 27 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
Natural27
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Equipment and vehicle use4
Debris and open burning4
Recreation and ceremony1

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
9 September 2013Naturalunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsHUNTER
8 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreClearwater Potlatch Timber Protective AssociationRUBY CREEK POWERLINE
7 September 2013Naturalunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsJACKSON MOUNTAIN
7 September 1995Naturalunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsBOVILL HIGHWAY
3 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsMARKER 38 PL
28 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsFORKS
27 September 2019Naturalunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsFORKS
25 September 2007Debris and open burning4.0 acresIdaho Department of LandsFORKS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Latah County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Bovill: 6 producers, 4 occurrences, 3 past producers. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Kaolin, Stone, Silica. 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
Bobs Creek Mica OccurrenceMicaOccurrence
Bovill Clay DepositWater, Free, Titanium, Silica, Iron, AluminumPast Producer1943, 1961
Gold Hunter ProspectLead, Gold, ZincOccurrence
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Helmer Clay DepositKaolin, SilicaProducer1956
Miclasil Mine and MillClayProducer
Sherwin Garnet PlacerGarnetOccurrencePlacer
Bouill Rock QuarryStoneProducer
Deary PitStoneProducer
Moose Creek Clay MineKaolinProducer

Every working recorded in Latah County

Storms near this place

1 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bovill in 1 storm report in 1995: 1 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
September 1995HailBovill-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Latah 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
Slabtown1.0 miles11
Helmer5.7 miles11
Sherwin6.6 miles11
Deary9.5 miles11
Avon11.9 miles11
Vassar12.0 miles11
Stanford13.4 miles11
Aspendale13.7 miles12

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 BovillAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1511115The 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 399805. 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.