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Cuprum, Idaho

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 2004. It stands in the Council census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83612. It lies near Hitchcock Gulch. The Survey maps it on the Cuprum quadrangle. It stands 4,298 feet above sea level.

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Cuprum within Adams County

On record in Cuprum

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

71 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 71 fires within 5 miles of Cuprum between 1992 and 2020, burning about 193 acres in total. 46 started naturally. 5 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
Natural46
Recreation and ceremony6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Arson/incendiarism5
Debris and open burning4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
5 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePayette National Forestnot named
3 September 2011Naturalunder an acrePayette National ForestBRONCO
21 September 2015Naturalunder an acrePayette National ForestGRASS CANYON
16 September 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acrePayette National ForestPLACER
16 September 2013Naturalunder an acrePayette National ForestBOULDER CREEK
11 September 1995Naturalunder an acrePayette National ForestALLISON
9 August 2006Naturalunder an acrePayette National ForestTRIPOD
6 August 2016Natural1.2 acresPayette National ForestLOCKWOOD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Adams County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 53 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 53 workings within 5 miles of Cuprum: 19 prospects, 19 past producers, 13 occurrences, 1 unknown. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Copper, Gold, Gold, Silver, Silver, Gold. 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
Alaska MineTungsten, Copper, MolybdenumPast Producer1892, 1952
Arkansas MineCopper, Lead, Gold, SilverPast Producer1887
AxeCopper, Silver, Lead, Gold, ZincPast Producer
Bear CreekStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Blue Jacket MineCopper, Gold, Silver, Lead, TungstenPast Producer1887, 1897
Calumet ProspectCopper, Gold, Silver, TungstenPast ProducerContact Metamorphic
Frenchy's MineCopper, Gold, Molybdenum, SilverPast Producer1880
Helena MineGold, Silver, Copper, Molybdenum, TungstenPast Producer1887
Humboldt ProspectCopper, GoldProspectContact Metamorphic
Lime Peak GroupGold, Copper, SilverOccurrence

Every working recorded in Adams County

Storms near this place

3 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cuprum in 3 storm reports between 2003 and 2025: 1 flash flood, 1 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
December 2025Thunderstorm WindCuprum-A wind gust measured instantaneously at 76 mph at Snake River RAWS occurred as a line of thunderstorms moved west to east.
August 2022HailCuprum-Multiple reports of hail ranging from 1-1.5 inches were submitted on social media.
July 2003Flash FloodCuprum-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Adams 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
Landore4.1 miles13
Bear4.4 miles13
Helena6.1 miles12
Rankin Mill14.6 miles16
Wildhorse17.6 miles13
Rubicon18.5 miles14
Tamarack18.5 miles13
Pine Ridge19.2 miles13

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 CuprumAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q30622883The 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 396354. 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.