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Camp Creek Summer Home Area, Idaho

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1989. It stands in the Garden Valley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83637. It stands on Camp Creek. The Survey maps it on the Grandjean quadrangle.

Camp Creek Summer Home Area within Boise County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

86 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 86 fires within 5 miles of Camp Creek Summer Home Area between 1992 and 2020, burning about 14,354 acres in total. 61 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
Natural61
Recreation and ceremony11
Equipment and vehicle use5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Debris and open burning2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Smoking1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
6 September 2019Naturalunder an acreBoise National ForestDOUGLAS
5 September 2006Naturalunder an acreBoise National ForestWOLF RIDGE
5 September 2006Natural3.0 acresBoise National ForestFOX
5 September 2006Natural1.2 acresBoise National ForestCANYON CREEK
3 September 1995Naturalunder an acreBoise National ForestCHAPMAN #2
3 September 1995Naturalunder an acreBoise National ForestHIYU CREEK
3 September 1995Naturalunder an acreBoise National ForestWAPITI FLAT
28 September 2003Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreBoise National ForestSACAJAWEA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Boise County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Camp Creek Summer Home Area: 6 occurrences, 1 producer, 1 prospect. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Geothermal, Niobium (Columbium), Gold, REE, Titanium. 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
Bear Creek Prospect # 1Gold, Silver, Molybdenum, LeadOccurrence
Bear Creek Prospect # 2Gold, Zinc, Silver, Bismuth, Copper, Molybdenum, Lead, TinOccurrence
Bear Creek Prospect No. 1Gold, Silver, Molybdenum, LeadOccurrenceVein
Bear Creek Prospect No. 2Molybdenum, Bismuth, Lead, Zinc, Copper, Silver, GoldOccurrence
Bonneville Hot SpringsGeothermalProducer
Canyon Creek PlacersNiobium (Columbium), Gold, REE, TitaniumOccurrence
Plumb Bob ClaimGold, SilverProspect
Divide PropsectGoldOccurrence

Every working recorded in Boise 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
Bear Creek Summer Home Area1.6 miles17
Graham (historical)14.4 miles14
Long Creek Summit Home19.1 miles12
Banner19.7 miles11
Lowman22.0 miles11
Tenmile Summer Home Area32.3 miles18
Washington Mill34.4 miles19
Grimes Pass34.8 miles13

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 Q122552023The 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 394042. 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.