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Conkling Park, Idaho

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Worley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83876. It stands on Squeatah Creek. The Survey maps it on the Harrison quadrangle. 73 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,658 feet above sea level.

Conkling Park within Kootenai County

Population over time

2 figures

Conkling Park grew from 43 to 73 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
201043
202073+30 (+70%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 10 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

86 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 86 fires within 5 miles of Conkling Park between 1992 and 2020, burning about 406 acres in total. 23 started naturally. 1 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 burning25
Natural23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined22
Equipment and vehicle use8
Fireworks2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Recreation and ceremony2
Smoking1
Arson/incendiarism1

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 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined11 acresMica Area OfficeCOTTONWOOD
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
3 September 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsBELL CANYON RD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kootenai County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Conkling Park: 2 occurrences, 1 prospect, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Fire Clay (Refractory), Peat, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Benewah Clay DepositClayProspectClay
Chatcolet Lake Clay OccurrenceFire Clay (Refractory)OccurrenceClay
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Round Lake Peat OccurrencePeatOccurrencePeat

Every working recorded in Kootenai County

Storms near this place

5 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Conkling Park in 5 storm reports between 2012 and 2014: 3 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind. The reports record 1 injury. 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
July 2014HailConkling Park1 hurt, $200,000One inch hail was observed at Conkling Park on Lake Coeur D Alene. As the storm tracked into northern sections of Kootenai County, strong outflow winds became the main threat resulting in a corridor of tree damage from Coeur D Alene to Althol. The strongest winds surfaced near Althol and knocked down multiple trees in the RV park across the street from Silverwood Theme Park. One person suffered a minor injury in the RV Park. Trees damaged campers, flipped tents, and knocked over smaller campers.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindConkling Park$2,000Trees and power lines were blown down at Ogara and South Benewah Road.
August 2014Thunderstorm WindConkling Park$1,000A large tree was blown down in Coeur D Alene. Numerous limbs were down across the county.
June 2012HailConkling Park-A thunderstorm with a history of producing hail to the size of Ping-Pong balls in Benewah County drifted north of Benewah Lake into Kootenai County. By this time, the thunderstorm was reportedly producing hail to the size of nickels.
July 2012HailConkling Park-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Kootenai 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
Lacon2.5 miles10
Harrison3.7 miles10
Ch'ach'alqw Landing5.2 miles10
Springston5.3 miles10
Worley8.4 miles9
Rockford Bay9.4 miles14
Mozart9.5 miles9
Medimont9.5 miles10

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 Conkling ParkAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3687012The 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 396323. 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.