Denver, Idaho

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Grangeville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83530. The Survey maps it on the Grangeville West quadrangle.

Denver within Idaho County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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 Grangeville West quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1980 USGS Grangeville quadrangle1:100000
1995 USGS Grangeville West quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

12 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Denver between 1998 and 2020, burning about 1,258 acres in total. 4 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Natural	4
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
19 September 2014	Equipment and vehicle use	110 acres	Idaho Department of Lands	ALMOST
7 August 1998	Natural	under an acre	Payette National Forest	STUMP RUN
5 August 2009	Natural	under an acre	Idaho Department of Lands	STEEP AND DEEP
29 August 2013	Natural	under an acre	Idaho Department of Lands	TOLO
26 August 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1,066 acres	Craig Mountain Area Office	CANYON ROAD
2 August 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Craig Mountain Area Office	FENN
2 August 2014	Natural	under an acre	Idaho Department of Lands	STOCKNEY
10 August 2015	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Nez Perce Tribe	CRANE HILL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Idaho County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Denver: 4 past producers, 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Cottonwood Clay Occurrence 24	Clay	Occurrence	Clay
Cottonwood Clay Occurrence No. 25 Prospect	Clay	Occurrence	Clay
Borrow Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit 107	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working 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
Fenn	2.6 miles	8
Cottonwood	6.9 miles	10
Greencreek	7.7 miles	10
Grangeville	7.8 miles	9
Dryden	9.7 miles	8
Mount Idaho	10.4 miles	9
Keuterville	11.2 miles	8
Winona	11.5 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 380517. 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.