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Elk City, Idaho

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Elk City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83525. It lies near Sweeny Hill. The Survey maps it on the Elk City quadrangle. 170 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,006 feet above sea level.

Elk City within Idaho County

On record in Elk City

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 3 records

Population over time

2 figures

Elk City fell from 202 to 170 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010202
2020170-32 (-16%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

82 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 82 fires within 5 miles of Elk City between 1993 and 2020, burning about 54 acres in total. 70 started naturally. 1 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
Natural70
Debris and open burning4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Arson/incendiarism1
Fireworks1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Recreation and ceremony1

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 1996Naturalunder an acreNez Perce - Clearwater National ForestsSWIMMING HOLE
18 September 1998Naturalunder an acreNez Perce - Clearwater National ForestsFLAT IRON
17 September 2007Naturalunder an acreNez Perce - Clearwater National ForestsBLUE
16 September 2007Naturalunder an acreNez Perce - Clearwater National ForestsWHITAKER
16 September 2007Naturalunder an acreNez Perce - Clearwater National ForestsTELEPHONE
14 September 2007Naturalunder an acreNez Perce - Clearwater National ForestsRIBBON
12 September 1996Naturalunder an acreNez Perce - Clearwater National Forests1810
1 September 1996Naturalunder an acreNez Perce - Clearwater National ForestsFRENCH BOYZ

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Idaho County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 69 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 69 workings within 5 miles of Elk City: 39 past producers, 22 occurrences, 4 producers, 3 prospects. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Silver, Copper, Zinc, Silver, Zinc, Copper. 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
Alma PlacerGold, REE, Titanium, GarnetPast ProducerPlacer
American Eagle MineGold, Silver, Lead, Tellurium, Zinc, CopperPast Producer1897, 1903
American Eagle Placer ClaimsGold, REEPast ProducerPlacer
American PlacerGold, TitaniumPast Producer1906
Buster MineGold, Copper, Tellurium, SilverPast Producer1870
Colonel SellersGold, Copper, SilverPast Producer
Deadwood CanyonAntimony, Lead, SilverOccurrence
Elk City DistrictSilver, GoldProducerPLACER, QUARTZ LENS, FISSURE VEIN
Elk City DistrictGold, REE, Mercury, Platinum, Uranium, Niobium (Columbium)Producer1861
Mary K MineGold, Silver, Zinc, Lead, CopperPast ProducerVein

Every working recorded in Idaho County

Storms near this place

8 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Elk City in 8 storm reports between 1995 and 2022: 6 hail, 2 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
August 2022Thunderstorm WindElk City-Strong winds damaged trees which led to a power outage in the Elk City area.
June 2006Thunderstorm WindElk City-no account filed
August 2006HailElk City-no account filed
July 2004HailElk City-no account filed
July 2004HailElk City-no account filed
July 2004HailElk City-no account filed
August 2003HailElk City-no account filed
April 1995HailElk City-no account filed

Every storm 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Gold Point3.8 miles11
York6.1 miles10
Leprouse6.3 miles10
Gibler6.6 miles10
Mud Springs8.3 miles14
Lightfoot8.5 miles10
Orogrande10.1 miles12
Fall Creek11.5 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 Elk CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2007094The 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 396453. 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.