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Craigmont, Idaho

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1924 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Craigmont census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83523. The Survey maps it on the Craigmont quadrangle. 458 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,740 feet above sea level.

Craigmont within Lewis County

Population over time

2 figures

Craigmont fell from 501 to 458 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
2010501
2020458-43 (-9%)

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

35 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 35 fires within 5 miles of Craigmont between 1992 and 2019, burning about 946 acres in total. 12 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
Natural12
Debris and open burning10
Equipment and vehicle use6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Arson/incendiarism2
Smoking1
Other causes1

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
7 September 2001Arson/incendiarismunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsMETAL TRESSEL
7 September 2000Natural50 acresIdaho Department of LandsBIG CANYON
5 September 2010Naturalunder an acreClearwater Potlatch Timber Protective AssociationMORRIS SADDLE
3 September 1996Debris and open burning2.0 acresIdaho Department of LandsLAWYER
2 September 1997Arson/incendiarism10 acresIdaho Department of LandsOLD MELROSE
2 September 1995Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresIdaho Department of LandsCITY LIMITS
18 September 2005Debris and open burning2.0 acresNez Perce TribeBARN BUCKET
6 August 2014Equipment and vehicle use630 acresNez Perce TribeGIFFORD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lewis County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Craigmont: 7 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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
Craigmont PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Lewis County

Storms near this place

8 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Craigmont in 8 storm reports between 1997 and 2022: 7 hail, 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
June 1999HailCraigmont$5,000no account filed
August 2022Thunderstorm WindCraigmont-A downburst from a collapsing thunderstorm produced estimated wind gusts near 60 mph. Half inch hail also fell with the storm.
June 2016HailCraigmont-A member of the public reported 1.75 inch size hail at Craigmont, Idaho.
June 2016HailCraigmont-An other federal agency reported 1 inch size hail at Craigmont, Idaho.
June 2016HailCraigmont-A member of the public reported one inch size hail 3 miles southwest of Craigmont, Idaho.
May 2015HailCraigmont-A Facebook post noted 0.75 inch hail fell in Craigmont, ID.
May 2015HailCraigmont-A member of the public reported hail ranging from nickel to quarter size falling 3 miles south of Craigmont, WA.
May 1997HailCraigmont-3/4 inch hail

Every storm recorded in Lewis 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
Vollmer0.1 miles8
Ilo (historical)1.6 miles8
Craig Junction4.2 miles9
Fletcher4.5 miles8
Clicks4.5 miles9
Kippen6.5 miles9
Reubens6.9 miles9
Mohler7.2 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 CraigmontAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q588273The 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 399839. 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.