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Cocolalla, Idaho

16 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 83813. It stands on Fish Creek. The Survey maps it on the Cocolalla quadrangle. It stands 2,221 feet above sea level.

Cocolalla within Bonner County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 16 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

84 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 84 fires within 5 miles of Cocolalla between 1992 and 2020, burning about 104 acres in total. 23 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
Debris and open burning31
Natural23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined20
Equipment and vehicle use3
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Smoking2
Fireworks1
Recreation and ceremony1

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 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsPOS 022 MORGAN HILL
29 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIdaho Panhandle National ForestGREEN LARCH
29 September 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsVERTICAL PILE
23 September 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsOLD 95
23 September 1996Naturalunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsLITTLE BUTLER
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 29 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 29 workings within 5 miles of Cocolalla: 13 occurrences, 11 past producers, 3 prospects, 2 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Uranium, 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
American EagleLead, SilverProspect
American Eagle ProspectSilver, Lead, Gold, Copper, ZincOccurrenceVein
Glowing Rock ProspectCopper, TungstenOccurrenceChalcopyrite
Halliwill ProspectUranium, CopperOccurrenceTorbernite
Iron OccurrenceIron, TungstenOccurrence
M B ProspectCopper, Zinc, Lead, Gold, SilverOccurrenceVein
O'Shaughnessy ProspectCopper, Silver, GoldOccurrence
Silver StarZinc, Silver, LeadProspect
Silver Star ProspectLead, Zinc, SilverOccurrenceVein
Glowing RockTungstenUnknown

Every working recorded in Bonner County

Storms near this place

2 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cocolalla in 2 storm reports between 1997 and 2015: 1 heavy rain, 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 2015Thunderstorm WindCocolalla-An emergency manager in Cocolalla, Idaho reported a few power lines down and fires that started from the downed lines and lightning strikes. Hail was also reported but size was unknown.
May 1997Heavy RainCocolalla-3/4 inches of rain in 35 minutes

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
Westmond2.3 miles18
Dufort4.1 miles18
Evans Landing5.1 miles16
Careywood5.2 miles17
Algoma6.6 miles18
Blacktail7.0 miles16
Talache7.4 miles16
Talache Landing7.5 miles16

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 CocolallaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5139794The 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 396313. 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.