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Brunning, Idaho

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1924 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Pierce-Headquarters census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83544. The Survey maps it on the Orofino East quadrangle.

Brunning within Clearwater 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.

Fires near this place

142 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 142 fires within 5 miles of Brunning between 1992 and 2020, burning about 277 acres in total. 46 started naturally. 11 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
Natural46
Missing data/not specified/undetermined34
Debris and open burning25
Arson/incendiarism11
Recreation and ceremony11
Equipment and vehicle use9
Smoking2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
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 2014Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresNez Perce TribeCASCADE SLASH
8 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsHIDDEN SPRINGS
7 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreClearwater Potlatch Timber Protective AssociationRANCHETTES
6 September 1996Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsCASCADE DRIVE
5 September 1992Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsBEACH BUM
4 September 2010Natural2.0 acresClearwater Potlatch Timber Protective AssociationFORD'S CREEK
4 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsGREER CEDAR
3 September 2002Naturalunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsBANDMILL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clearwater County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Brunning: 7 past producers, 4 producers, 3 occurrences. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General, Limestone, General, Limestone, Ultra Pure, Marble, Dimension, Limestone, General. 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
Clearwater Lime Products Co. QuarryLimestone, General, Limestone, Ultra PurePast ProducerLimestone
Clearwater Lime Products Co. QuarryMarble, Dimension, Limestone, GeneralPast ProducerMetamorphic
Clearwater Lime Products Co. QuarryLimestone, Ultra Pure, Limestone, GeneralPast ProducerLimestone
Gaffney PlacerGoldOccurrencePlacer
OrofinoCalciumOccurrence
Orofino Quarries No. 1 and No. 2Limestone, High CalciumPast ProducerLimestone
Sewell Lime Company QuarryLimestone, General, Limestone, High CalciumPast Producer
Big Creek Limestone OccurrenceLimestone, GeneralOccurrenceLimestone
ClearwaterLimestone, GeneralPast Producer
OrofinoLimestone, GeneralPast Producer

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
Blake1.9 miles10
Konkolville3.0 miles10
Hansberg3.7 miles11
Cooper5.4 miles11
Best Corner5.4 miles11
Orofino5.9 miles10
Fraser6.4 miles10
Greer6.7 miles10

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 Q122558646The 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 399374. 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.