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De Smet, Idaho

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Tensed census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83824. It lies near King Valley. The Survey maps it on the Tensed quadrangle. 145 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,598 feet above sea level.

De Smet within Benewah County

On record in De Smet

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Population over time

2 figures

De Smet fell from 175 to 145 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
2010175
2020145-30 (-17%)

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

64 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 64 fires within 5 miles of De Smet between 1992 and 2020, burning about 460 acres in total. 21 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
Debris and open burning27
Natural21
Equipment and vehicle use5
Fireworks4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Smoking1

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 AgencyMOUNTAINSIDE
9 September 2012Naturalunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsSJS MOUNTAINSIDE
6 September 1994Debris and open burning4.0 acresNorthern Idaho AgencyALLOT 375
6 September 1994Natural5.0 acresNorthern Idaho AgencyDESHIELDS
5 September 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreNorthern Idaho AgencyBUNNY HOP
4 September 2008Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresNorthern Idaho AgencyRUPERT
27 September 2005Debris and open burning1.5 acresNorthern Idaho Agency4 CORNERS #3
26 September 2006Debris and open burning15 acresNorthern Idaho AgencyFOUR CORNERS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Benewah 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 De Smet: 3 past producers, 2 producers, 2 occurrences. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Kaolin, Stone. 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
Bw-1001 PitStoneProducer
Tensed MineKaolinProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Atkinson ProspectIronOccurrence
Mccleary ButteIronPast Producer
Tensed ProspectIronOccurrence

Every working recorded in Benewah 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
Tensed1.0 miles8
Sanders6.9 miles10
Benewah9.0 miles9
Willard9.2 miles11
Mowry12.0 miles8
Plummer13.1 miles8
Plummer Junction13.6 miles9
North South Ski Bowl13.7 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 De SmetAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3704052The 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 397609. 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.