Delta, Idaho

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.

• 1901 USGS Coeur D'Alene District quadrangle1:62500
• 1903 USGS Coeur D'Alene District quadrangle1:62500
• 1906 USGS Coeur D'Alene District quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
• 1932 USGS Trout Creek quadrangle1:125000
• 1935 USGS Trout Creek quadrangle1:125000
• 1936 USGS Trout Creek quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
• 1956 USGS Wallace quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1957 USGS Burke quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1960 USGS Wallace quadrangle1:250000
• 1985 USGS Osburn quadrangle1:24000
• 1992 USGS Thompson Falls quadrangle1:100000
• 1996 USGS Osburn quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 62 fires within 5 miles of Delta between 1993 and 2019, burning about 52 acres in total. 47 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.

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

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Thiard
• Carbon Center
• Eagle
• Ferguson
• Prichard
• Murray

Every fire recorded in Shoshone County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 99 workings within 5 miles of Delta: 46 past producers, 17 occurrences, 17 unknowns, 10 prospects. 9 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Lead, Zinc. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Shoshone County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 396390. 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.