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Careywood, Idaho

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Blanchard-Glengary census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83809. It stands on Careywood Creek. The Survey maps it on the Careywood quadrangle. It stands 2,280 feet above sea level.

Careywood within Bonner County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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

91 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 91 fires within 5 miles of Careywood between 1992 and 2020, burning about 293 acres in total. 19 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
Debris and open burning34
Missing data/not specified/undetermined21
Natural19
Fireworks4
Recreation and ceremony4
Equipment and vehicle use4
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Misuse of fire by a minor1
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
9 September 2006Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsROCK SPRINGS 2
7 September 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsGRANITE HILL
29 September 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsVERTICAL PILE
25 September 2005Naturalunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsINDIAN GIVER
23 September 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsOLD 95
22 September 2011Naturalunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsBARNHART
2 September 2007Naturalunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsLONG MTN
2 September 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsOLD PILE FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bonner County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 24 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 24 workings within 5 miles of Careywood: 12 occurrences, 6 past producers, 3 prospects, 3 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Tungsten, Uranium, Gold. 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
Cape HornSilver, Gold, CopperProspect
Cape Horn ProspectCopper, Gold, SilverOccurrenceVein
Glowing Rock ProspectCopper, TungstenOccurrenceChalcopyrite
Halliwill ProspectUranium, CopperOccurrenceTorbernite
North LightGold, Silver, CopperProspect
Silver StarZinc, Silver, LeadProspect
Silver Star ProspectLead, Zinc, SilverOccurrenceVein
Tungsten Occ. #2 Bonner CountyGold, Lead, Silver, TungstenUnknown
HalliwillUranium, CopperOccurrence
Iron OccurrenceIron, TungstenOccurrence

Every working recorded in Bonner County

Storms near this place

1 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Careywood in 1 storm report in 2014: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
August 2014Thunderstorm WindCareywood$500A tree was blown down on a power line in Sandpoint, ID.

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
Kelso3.7 miles17
Cocolalla5.2 miles16
Evans Landing6.6 miles16
Westmond7.6 miles18
Clagstone8.7 miles17
Harlem9.0 miles17
Vay9.1 miles17
Dufort9.3 miles18

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 CareywoodAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5039231The 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 396235. 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.