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Dickshooter, Idaho

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1989. It stands in the Grand View census division. The Survey maps it on the Dickshooter Reservoir quadrangle.

Dickshooter within Owyhee County

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.

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Dickshooter: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Diatomite. 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
Diatomite OccurrenceDiatomitePast ProducerSedimentary
DickshooterDiatomitePast Producer

Every working recorded in Owyhee 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
Rickard Crossing13.3 miles8
Collier Place19.0 miles8
Pleasant Valley Place20.5 miles8
Four Corners20.5 miles8
Comical Turn22.3 miles8
Harvey Place23.9 miles9
Riddle25.1 miles8
Cottonwood (historical)27.0 miles8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 396402. 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.

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.