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Elkhorn Village, Idaho

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1895 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Ketchum census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83353. It lies near Independence Gulch. The Survey maps it on the Sun Valley quadrangle.

Elkhorn Village within Blaine County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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.

Fires near this place

46 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 46 fires within 5 miles of Elkhorn Village between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,672 acres in total. 11 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
Recreation and ceremony18
Natural11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Equipment and vehicle use5
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Debris and open burning2
Smoking2
Other causes1

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
8 September 2011Natural2.4 acresTwin Falls DistrictGREENHORN
29 September 2000Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSawtooth National ForestGREYHAWK
24 September 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSawtooth National ForestCOLLEGE
16 September 1998Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSawtooth National ForestUNCLE JOHNS
13 September 2013Naturalunder an acreSawtooth National ForestCOTTONWOOD
13 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTwin Falls DistrictBOUNDARY CG
25 August 2001Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSawtooth National ForestBROADWAY
21 August 2011Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSawtooth National ForestCORRAL CREEK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Blaine County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 63 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 63 workings within 5 miles of Elkhorn Village: 22 past producers, 17 occurrences, 17 unknowns, 7 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Lead, Silver, Gold, Zinc. 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
Bald Eagle MineCopper, Silver, Lead, GoldUnknown
Bald Eagle ProspectGold, Copper, Silver, LeadOccurrenceChalcopyrite, Galena, Sphalerite
Baltimore MineZinc, Silver, Lead, Gold, CopperPast Producer
DuquetteCopper, Antimony, Silver, LeadProspect
ElkhornLead, Zinc, Silver, GoldPast Producer
Elkhorn MineSilver, Gold, LeadPast Producer1879
Evelyn ProspectCoal, LeadOccurrenceSedimentary
Evelyn ProspectLead, CoalUnknown
Homestake ProspectCopper, Zinc, Antimony, Silver, LeadUnknown
Ida HarlanStone, Crushed/Broken, Zinc, Silver, Lead, QuartzUnknown

Every working recorded in Blaine 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
Sun Valley1.6 miles17
Ketchum1.7 miles17
Triumph4.8 miles17
Gimlet5.3 miles16
Barite8.5 miles16
Clarendon Hot Springs9.4 miles17
Hailey11.1 miles16
Cathedral Pines12.3 miles16

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.

Wikidata item Q122594506The 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 393978. 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.