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Elk River, Idaho

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Elk River census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83827. It stands on Partridge Creek. The Survey maps it on the Elk River quadrangle. 139 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,854 feet above sea level.

Elk River within Clearwater County

Population over time

2 figures

Elk River grew from 125 to 139 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
2010125
2020139+14 (+11%)

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.

Fires near this place

100 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 100 fires within 5 miles of Elk River between 1992 and 2017, burning about 42 acres in total. 86 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
Natural86
Equipment and vehicle use5
Recreation and ceremony4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Debris and open burning2

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
7 September 2011Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsBULL RUN
7 September 1995Naturalunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsOVIATT CR
7 September 1995Naturalunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsCAMERON EAST
7 September 1995Naturalunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsSOUTH SHATTUCK
6 September 2002Naturalunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsJACKSON TELEPHONE
5 September 2013Naturalunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsTICK RIDGE
4 September 2002Naturalunder an acreNez Perce - Clearwater National ForestsBLOODY RIDGE
17 September 2001Naturalunder an acreNez Perce - Clearwater National ForestsBIG JOHNSON

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clearwater County

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 Elk River: 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Kaolin, Mica. 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
Elk River Clay DepositKaolinOccurrenceClay, Kaolinite
Partridge Creek ProspectMicaOccurrence1925

Every working recorded in Clearwater County

Storms near this place

2 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Elk River in 2 storm reports in 2006: 1 hail, 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
May 2006HailElk River-no account filed
August 2006Thunderstorm WindElk River-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Clearwater 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
Kameron4.0 miles11
Neva6.3 miles11
Five Corners9.9 miles11
Dent11.1 miles11
Johnson15.4 miles11
Best Corner15.4 miles11
Boehls15.8 miles15
Hansberg17.1 miles11

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 RiverAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1511971The 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 396456. 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.