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Chatcolet, Idaho

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Plummer census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83851. It stands on Pedee Creek. The Survey maps it on the Chatcolet quadrangle. It stands 2,129 feet above sea level.

Chatcolet within Benewah County

On record in Chatcolet

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 3 records

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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

88 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 88 fires within 5 miles of Chatcolet between 1992 and 2020, burning about 420 acres in total. 23 started naturally. 2 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
Natural23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined22
Debris and open burning21
Equipment and vehicle use11
Recreation and ceremony3
Arson/incendiarism2
Smoking2
Fireworks2
Misuse of fire by a minor2

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 2012Naturalunder an acreNorthern Idaho AgencyHIKE IN THE PARK
7 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined23 acresSt. Joe Area OfficeCLIFF
7 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.5 acresMica Area OfficeCONKLING
7 September 2020Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsMANIFOLD
5 September 1999Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsRUSSELL
3 September 2008Equipment and vehicle use2.4 acresIdaho Department of LandsPOWDERHORN
29 September 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsROCKY
26 September 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsHIXSON

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Benewah 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 Chatcolet: 4 occurrences, 1 past producer, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Stone, Stone, Dimension, Fire Clay (Refractory). 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
Chatcolet Lake Clay OccurrenceFire Clay (Refractory)OccurrenceClay
Ellis PitStone, DimensionPast Producer
QuarryStoneOccurrence
Round Lake Peat OccurrencePeatOccurrencePeat
Benewah Clay DepositClayProspectClay
Benewah Lake Clay OccurrenceClayOccurrenceClay

Every working recorded in Benewah County

Storms near this place

2 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Chatcolet in 2 storm reports in 2012: 1 hail, 1 flood. 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
March 2012FloodChatcolet$200,000There were numerous reports of water over roadways and washouts. Road closures included the south end of Sagle Road, Talache Road at Camp Stidwell, Blacktail Road near Little Blacktail Mountain Road, Cocolalla Loop Road near address 3900 and Sportsmans Access Road. Partial road washouts included Jewel Lake Road at mile marker 2.5, Schneider Road between mile marker 3 and 4, Nettleingham Road, Snow Valley Road, Petterson Road and Boyer Road near Vedelwood Road.
June 2012HailChatcolet-A severe thunderstorm developed northwest of the St. Joe National Forest. The thunderstorm intensified as it moved northeast between Heyburn State Park and St. Maries. The thunderstorm proceeded to head northward as a new updraft developed across Benewah County into Kootenai County.

Every storm recorded in Benewah 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
Hawleys Landing1.2 miles9
Rocky Point1.5 miles9
Pedee1.6 miles9
Silvertip Landing3.8 miles9
Parkline4.7 miles9
Ramsdell4.8 miles9
Plummer Junction6.0 miles9
Plummer7.1 miles8

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 ChatcoletAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q17508603The 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 371974. 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.