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Caribel, Idaho

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1924 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Elk City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83536. The Survey maps it on the Weippe South quadrangle.

Caribel within Idaho County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

129 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 129 fires within 5 miles of Caribel between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,918 acres in total. 44 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
Natural44
Missing data/not specified/undetermined34
Debris and open burning18
Arson/incendiarism11
Recreation and ceremony9
Equipment and vehicle use6
Fireworks4
Misuse of fire by a minor2
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
9 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCoeur d'Alene Field OfficeALMOST HEAVEN
8 September 1997Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresIdaho Department of LandsHAYSTACK
7 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMaggie Creek Area OfficeKIDDER
7 September 1998Naturalunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsPARADIS LOST
7 September 1998Naturalunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsGLENWOOD
6 September 1999Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsLOLO
4 September 1999Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsPIT
3 September 1994Debris and open burningunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsTRASH

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Idaho County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Caribel: 3 past producers, 1 producer, 1 occurrence, 1 unknown. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Mica, Uranium, Stone. 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
Ida-Lew ConstructionUranium, StonePast Producer
Lolo MineGold, CopperOccurrence
Myers Mica MineMica, PGE, MolybdenumUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Myers Mica MineMicaPast Producer1920

Every working recorded in Idaho County

Storms near this place

1 since 2022

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Caribel in 1 storm report in 2022: 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 2022Thunderstorm WindCaribel$25,000Numerous trees were downed by strong winds in the east Kamiah area. Idaho Power and Light reported outages lasting 16 to 24 hours. In Kamiah, wind lifted a 40-foot wide roof into a neighbors yard.

Every storm recorded in Idaho 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
Harrisburg5.1 miles11
East Kamiah5.1 miles10
Glenwood6.0 miles9
Woodland7.5 miles11
Kooskia8.0 miles10
Tramway8.9 miles11
Pardee Corner9.0 miles11
Pardee10.0 miles11

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 Q122592043The 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 397529. 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.