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Elmira, Idaho

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Sandpoint census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83864. It stands on White Creek. The Survey maps it on the Elmira quadrangle.

Elmira within Bonner County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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

92 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 92 fires within 5 miles of Elmira between 1992 and 2020, burning about 131 acres in total. 22 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
Debris and open burning29
Natural22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined19
Recreation and ceremony13
Equipment and vehicle use3
Smoking2
Fireworks2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
9 September 2009Naturalunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsHOT FOOT
9 September 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsELK HOLLOW
7 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePend Oreille Area OfficeIRON HORSE
7 September 2013Naturalunder an acreIdaho Panhandle National ForestSANDY BEAVER
5 September 2012Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsKABLOOM
3 September 2018Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsSARDINE
22 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsBULL
20 September 2018Debris and open burning24 acresIdaho Department of LandsPOS 032 SAMUELS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bonner County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Elmira: 4 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Uranium, Copper, Lead, Gold, Silver, Silver, Lead, Gold, 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
Davis PropertySilver, Lead, Gold, CopperOccurrence
Davis Property ProspectCopper, Lead, Gold, SilverOccurrenceVein
Hottentot ClaimsUraniumOccurrence
Hottentot ClaimsUraniumOccurrence

Every working recorded in Bonner County

Storms near this place

6 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Elmira in 6 storm reports between 2011 and 2020: 3 flood, 1 debris flow, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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
March 2011FloodElmira$1,790,000The emergency manager of Bonner County relayed numerous road damage reports from across the county due to flooding from March 31st. The roads included in this report were Fish Creek, Sandborn Creek, West Shingle Mill, Bottle Bay, Dufort, Peninsula, Eastriver, Blacktail, Beare, Eureka, Helen Thompson, Moore Loop, South First Street, Spring Haven Drive, Wells, North Riley Creek, Mountain Creek, Snow Valley, Forest Siding, Comeback Lane, Cocolalla Loop, and LeClerc Road. Several other private roads were also damaged from flooding.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindElmira$15,000A member of the public reported downed trees on power lines across Elmira Road due to thunderstorm winds. Time of report was estimated based on radar.
May 2020FloodElmira$10,000U.S. Forest Service reported a partial road closure on Forest Service Road 280 near Grouse Creek. This was due to Grouse Creek flooding and flood damage caused by spring snow melt and heavy rain. There were no known injuries or damage to buildings.
June 2020HailElmira$1,000A trained spotter reported hail with a diameter of 1 inch and heavy hain with a passing thunderstorm near Elmira.
December 2015FloodElmira-An emergency manager noted several roads were closed from water over the roadway along and near Schewitzer creek, Sand creek, Grouse creek, and the Upper Pack river.
November 2014Debris FlowElmira-KHQ TV reported a mudslide 14 miles east of Bonners Ferry, Idaho which covered the BNSF railroad tracks. Slide was 20 feet deep, 50 feet wide, and 200 feet long. The slide halted train traffic for 48 hours until it was cleared.

Every storm 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Samuels3.8 miles14
Colburn6.9 miles16
Selle8.6 miles14
Bronx9.9 miles17
Boyer10.9 miles14
Culver11.1 miles14
Oden11.2 miles14
Kootenai12.0 miles17

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 ElmiraAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22058971The 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 381439. 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.