Chambers, Idaho

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Potlatch census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83857. It stands on Grouse Creek. The Survey maps it on the Princeton quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Chambers within Latah County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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.

1955 USGS Pullman quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Pullman quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1960 USGS Potlatch quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1981 USGS Potlatch quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1990 USGS Princeton quadrangle1:24000
1994 USGS Princeton quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

34 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 34 fires within 5 miles of Chambers (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,023 acres in total. 19 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	19
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Debris and open burning	5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Recreation and ceremony	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
9 September 1996	Equipment and vehicle use	13 acres	Idaho Department of Lands	DRIVELINE
4 September 2010	Natural	3.8 acres	Ponderosa Area Office	MOON HILL
26 September 2018	Debris and open burning	56 acres	Idaho Department of Lands	GOLD HILL
2 September 1996	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Idaho Department of Lands	WEST GROUSE CREEK
16 September 2001	Natural	under an acre	Idaho Department of Lands	QUARTZ ROAD
15 September 2016	Debris and open burning	4.3 acres	Idaho Department of Lands	MAD HATTER
15 September 2006	Recreation and ceremony	7.5 acres	Idaho Department of Lands	EAST ROCK CREEK
13 September 1998	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6.0 acres	Idaho Department of Lands	HATTER CREEK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Latah County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 19 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 19 workings within 5 miles of Chambers (historical): 11 occurrences, 7 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Gold, Copper, Beryllium, Mica. 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
Bishop Claim Prospect	Silver, Gold, Copper	Occurrence	Vein
Gold Bug Prospect	Gold, Silver, Copper	Occurrence	1882
Gold Hill Prospect	Copper, Gold, Silver	Occurrence	Chalcocite, Chalcopyrite, Chrysocolla, Copper, Covellite, Cuprite, Malachite, Tetrahedrite
Harvard Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Mc Kinney Prospect	Beryllium, Mica	Past Producer	Beryl, Muscovite
Milbert Prospect	Iron	Occurrence	Magnetite
Onaway Mine	Kaolin	Past Producer	1902
Prosperity Group	Tungsten	Occurrence	Vein
Black Horse Prospect	Gold, Copper	Occurrence	Vein
Copper Ridge Prospect	Gold, Copper	Occurrence	Vein

Every working recorded in Latah 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
Princeton	2.8 miles	12
Harvard	2.9 miles	12
Hampton	3.6 miles	12
Onaway	5.7 miles	12
Potlatch	6.1 miles	12
Yale (historical)	6.3 miles	11
Potlatch Junction	7.9 miles	12
Freeze	8.8 miles	12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 399454. 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.