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Collier Place, Idaho

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Grand View census division. The Survey maps it on the Sugarloaf quadrangle.

Collier Place within Owyhee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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

3 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Collier Place between 1998 and 2012, burning about 49,385 acres in total. 3 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
Natural3

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
6 August 1998Natural56 acresBoise DistrictASR #6
22 August 2005Natural435 acresBoise DistrictANTELOPE
9 July 2012Natural48,894 acresBoise DistrictJACKS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Owyhee County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Collier Place: 3 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Mercury. 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
Lucky Boy GroupMercuryOccurrenceVein
Owyhee RiverMercuryOccurrenceCinnabar
Trade DollarMercuryOccurrence

Every working recorded in Owyhee 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
Comical Turn5.2 miles8
Harvey Place9.7 miles9
Buncel Place11.6 miles9
Cottonwood (historical)13.9 miles8
Wickahoney15.9 miles7
Dickshooter19.0 miles8
Doyle Place19.0 miles9
Crill Place20.4 miles9

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 Q122558409The 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 397565. 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.