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Cornwall, Idaho

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Moscow census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83843. The Survey maps it on the Troy quadrangle.

Cornwall within Latah County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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

24 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Cornwall between 1993 and 2020, burning about 115 acres in total. 7 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
Natural7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Debris and open burning6
Recreation and ceremony2
Fireworks1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
8 September 1997Recreation and ceremony2.5 acresIdaho Department of LandsCABIN
6 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsFELTON CREEK
2 September 1996Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsROBINSON LAKE
18 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsLENVILLE ROAD
18 September 1996Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresIdaho Department of LandsRANDALL FLAT
17 September 1998Naturalunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsSPENCE ROAD #2
17 September 1998Naturalunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsBLAINE ROAD
17 September 1998Natural4.0 acresIdaho Department of LandsSPENCE ROAD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Latah County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Cornwall: 5 past producers, 2 occurrences, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Quartz, Stone, Kaolin, 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
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Jensen PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Joel Clay MineKaolinPast Producer1916
Moscow Clay PitFire Clay (Refractory)Past ProducerClay
East Moscow Mountain ProspectQuartzOccurrence
Joel QuarryStonePast Producer
Joel Quartz OccurrenceQuartzOccurrenceQuartz
Lt-106 PitStonePast Producer

Every working recorded in Latah County

Storms near this place

3 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cornwall in 3 storm reports between 2012 and 2022: 1 flood, 1 hail, 1 funnel cloud. 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 2012FloodCornwall$50,000The combination of heavy rain and snow melt caused several creeks and streams to flood causing minor damage to multiple roads between Genesee and Moscow. The most significant damage occurred along Blaine, Eid, Danielson, Swenson, and Troy-Genesee Roads. The South Latah Highway district estimated repair cost to these roads at 50 thousand dollars, primarily to procure, haul, and replace material to restore the roadways for safe travel.
June 2022HailCornwall-Quarter sized hail observed.
June 2022Funnel CloudCornwall-Funnel cloud observed near Joel, ID. No damage reported.

Every storm 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Joel0.7 miles13
Howell3.2 miles11
Lenville5.0 miles11
Troy5.4 miles11
Blaine5.7 miles13
Moscow7.3 miles16
Lidyville (historical)8.5 miles10
Bovard (historical)9.2 miles11

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 CornwallAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q19866208The 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 397573. 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.