Casto, Idaho

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1930 and the latest in 1989. It stands in the Stanley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83278. It stands on Canyon Creek. The Survey maps it on the Casto quadrangle.

Casto within Custer County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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.

1930 USGS Casto quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Challis quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1960 USGS Challis quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Casto quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1963 USGS Challis quadrangle1:250000
1982 USGS Challis quadrangle1:100000
1989 USGS Challis quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

19 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Casto between 1993 and 2018, burning about 42,980 acres in total. 16 started naturally. None 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
Natural	16
Recreation and ceremony	2
Smoking	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
20 September 1995	Natural	2.0 acres	Salmon-Challis National Forest	PHILLIPS CREEK
16 September 2000	Natural	under an acre	Salmon-Challis National Forest	MERINO
7 August 2006	Natural	35,122 acres	Salmon-Challis National Forest	TRAIL CREEK
5 August 1999	Natural	under an acre	Salmon-Challis National Forest	DIAMOND D
29 August 1993	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Salmon-Challis National Forest	not named
28 August 2002	Natural	under an acre	Salmon-Challis National Forest	LOON AIRSTRIP
22 August 1998	Natural	under an acre	Salmon-Challis National Forest	RAT CREEK
20 August 2003	Natural	under an acre	Salmon-Challis National Forest	COUGAR

Every fire recorded in Custer County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 42 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 42 workings within 5 miles of Casto: 34 prospects, 5 occurrences, 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Copper, Silver, Copper. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Loon Creek Hot Spring	Geothermal	Occurrence
Loon Creek Quartz Vein	Zinc, Lead, Copper	Occurrence
Lost Eagle Claim	Silver, Lead, Zinc, Copper	Prospect	Vein
Monte Cristo Mine	Gold, Silver, Lead, Copper	Prospect
Monte Cristo Prospect	Gold, Silver, Lead	Occurrence	1907
South Packer Prospect	Copper, Gold	Prospect	Vein
Sunrise Claim	Gold, Silver, Zinc, Lead	Prospect
Unnamed Prospect	Gold, Zinc, Silver, Lead, Copper	Prospect
Unnamed Prospect	Copper, Zinc, Lead	Prospect
Unnamed Prospect	Iron	Prospect

Every working recorded in Custer 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Custer	14.9 miles	15
Bonanza	15.1 miles	16
Cape Horn (historical)	20.3 miles	17
Sunbeam	21.4 miles	16
Lower Stanley	23.9 miles	16
Robinson Bar	24.0 miles	15
Stanley	24.7 miles	16
Torreys	25.3 miles	14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 396246. 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.