Edgemere, Idaho

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Blanchard-Glengary census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83856. The Survey maps it on the Edgemere quadrangle.

Edgemere within Bonner County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 17 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.

1901 USGS Sandpoint quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
1911 USGS Priest Lake quadrangle1:250000
1911 USGS Sandpoint quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1913 USGS Priest Lake quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Sandpoint quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1963 USGS Sandpoint quadrangle1:250000
1968 USGS Edgemere quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1984 USGS Sandpoint quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1996 USGS Edgemere quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

84 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 84 fires within 5 miles of Edgemere between 1992 and 2020, burning about 326 acres in total. 22 started naturally. 2 were 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 burning	33
Natural	22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	13
Recreation and ceremony	4
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Smoking	2
Fireworks	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Arson/incendiarism	2

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
8 September 2011	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Idaho Department of Lands	WAKENA
6 September 2013	Natural	under an acre	Idaho Department of Lands	CURTIS
3 September 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Idaho Department of Lands	BLACKTAIL
26 September 2009	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Idaho Panhandle National Forest	BOBWIRE
24 September 2012	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Idaho Department of Lands	CLAGSTONE 22
18 September 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Idaho Department of Lands	NITTY GRITTY
17 September 2001	Natural	under an acre	Idaho Department of Lands	HUNTER ROAD
16 September 2019	Natural	under an acre	Idaho Panhandle National Forest	RUSTLING LEAF

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bonner County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Edgemere: 6 past producers, 3 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silver, Iron, Stone. 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
Clagst One Pit	Stone	Past Producer
Hanna	Iron, Silver	Occurrence
Hanna Prospect	Silver	Occurrence
Unnamed Location	Silver	Occurrence
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	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Bonner 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
Harlem	2.5 miles	17
Vay	3.4 miles	17
Clagstone	3.9 miles	17
Thama	5.6 miles	16
Sawyer	5.7 miles	16
Seneacquoteen	6.1 miles	16
Coleman	6.9 miles	17
Laclede	7.2 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 396444. 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.