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Eastport, Idaho

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Moyie Springs census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83826. It stands on Line Creek. The Survey maps it on the Eastport quadrangle. It stands 2,628 feet above sea level.

Eastport within Boundary County

On record in Eastport

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 2 records

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

33 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 33 fires within 5 miles of Eastport between 1992 and 2019, burning about 498 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
Natural21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Debris and open burning3

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
3 September 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreIdaho Panhandle National ForestBRASS CREEK
7 August 2003Naturalunder an acreIdaho Panhandle National ForestHARVEY CREEK
4 August 2003Natural2.4 acresIdaho Panhandle National ForestADDIE
31 August 2003Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreIdaho Panhandle National ForestEASTPORT
29 August 2017Natural3.2 acresIdaho Panhandle National ForestBOUNDARY
22 August 2015Naturalunder an acreIdaho Panhandle National ForestBRASS MONKEY
20 August 2004Naturalunder an acreIdaho Panhandle National ForestLOWER SPRUCE
2 August 2018Natural473 acresIdaho Panhandle National ForestCOPPER MOUNTAIN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Boundary 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 Eastport: 3 unknowns, 3 prospects, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Lead, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Copper, Gold. 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
Big T ProspectSilver, Copper, Zinc, LeadProspect
Copper CreekGoldProspect
Geneva ClaimsLead, CopperProspect
Borrow PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Borrow PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Copper Falls ProspectLeadOccurrenceVein
Geneva ClaimsLeadUnknown

Every working recorded in Boundary County

Storms near this place

2 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Eastport in 2 storm reports between 2008 and 2013: 1 flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2013Thunderstorm WindEastport-A large tree was blown over onto Highway 95 at milepost 533.
May 2008FloodEastport-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Boundary 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
Addie3.3 miles11
Good Grief3.5 miles11
Sinclair4.9 miles11
Meadow Creek12.5 miles12
Copeland12.9 miles13
Eileen15.4 miles12
Porthill16.8 miles13
Ritz18.2 miles13

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 EastportAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5330886The 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 396438. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.