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Cabinet, Idaho

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1989. It stands in the Clark Fork census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83811. It lies in Cabinet Gorge. The Survey maps it on the Cabinet quadrangle.

Cabinet within Bonner County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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

52 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 52 fires within 5 miles of Cabinet between 1992 and 2020, burning about 47 acres in total. 27 started naturally. 1 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
Debris and open burning6
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Smoking2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Arson/incendiarism1
Other causes1
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
8 September 1999Naturalunder an acreKootenai National ForestBLUE CREEK
4 September 2019Natural3.0 acresCoeur d'Alene Field OfficeLAST DAY
30 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreIdaho Panhandle National ForestRUEN ROAD
3 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCoeur d'Alene Field OfficeLONE CEDAR
23 September 1998Naturalunder an acreIdaho Panhandle National ForestTHREE TREE
17 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreKootenai National Forest207
13 September 1996Naturalunder an acreIdaho Panhandle National ForestPHANTOM
13 September 1996Naturalunder an acreIdaho Panhandle National ForestSTATE LINE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bonner County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Cabinet: 6 occurrences, 4 prospects, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Copper, Silver, Silver, Copper, Lead. 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
CabinetClayProspect
Gravel Pit 087Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
HummerGold, Silver, CopperOccurrence
Weir ProspectSilver, Lead, CopperProspect
Carpie ProspectSilver, CopperOccurrenceVein
Unnamed LocationLead, SilverOccurrence
Unnamed LocationLead, SilverOccurrence
Carpie MineCopper, SilverProspect
R. J. Price Mining Co.CopperProspect
Unnamed LocationCopperOccurrence

Every working recorded in Bonner County

Storms near this place

2 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cabinet in 2 storm reports between 2006 and 2012: 1 hail, 1 flood. 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
January 2012FloodCabinet-CocoRahs observers reported widespread 1 to 2.5 inches of rainfall on the morning of the 30th. The media relayed that Highway 200 from U.S. Highway 95 to the Montana had several spots with water over the roadway.
August 2006HailCabinet-no account filed

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
Clark Fork6.9 miles15
Denton12.3 miles15
East Hope16.0 miles16
Hope16.7 miles16
Glengary18.6 miles16
Granite18.7 miles16
Garfield20.1 miles16
Trestle Creek20.1 miles14

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 CabinetAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q16874285The 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 396207. 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.