Davidson, Idaho

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Cottonwood census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83522. It stands on Left Fork Divide Creek. The Survey maps it on the Wolf Creek quadrangle.

Davidson within Idaho County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 9 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.

1955 USGS Grangeville quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1959 USGS Grangeville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1963 USGS Wolf Creek quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1980 USGS Grangeville quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

27 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Davidson between 1992 and 2015, burning about 440 acres in total. 26 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
Natural	26
Equipment and vehicle use	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
9 August 2008	Natural	under an acre	Idaho Department of Lands	LOST BOYS
7 August 1999	Natural	under an acre	Idaho Department of Lands	WOLF CREEK
6 August 2009	Natural	under an acre	Idaho Department of Lands	UPPER COTTON
6 August 2003	Natural	under an acre	Cottonwood Field Office	HIGH BREAKS
6 August 2003	Natural	under an acre	Cottonwood Field Office	LOW BREAK
6 August 1999	Natural	under an acre	Idaho Department of Lands	SAWMILL GULCH
5 August 2009	Natural	1.0 acres	Idaho Department of Lands	DARK KNIGHT
31 August 2015	Natural	7.0 acres	Idaho Department of Lands	HIGH BREAKS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Idaho 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Mexican Place	5.2 miles	9
Boles	6.7 miles	9
Joseph	7.0 miles	8
Canfield	11.9 miles	10
Keuterville	15.5 miles	8
Taylor	15.6 miles	10
Copperville	15.7 miles	10
White Bird	16.6 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 397604. 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.