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Emida, Idaho

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the St. Maries census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83861. It stands on Bob Creek. The Survey maps it on the Emida quadrangle. It stands 2,850 feet above sea level.

Emida within Benewah County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

64 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 64 fires within 5 miles of Emida between 1992 and 2020, burning about 272 acres in total. 38 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
Natural38
Debris and open burning8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Equipment and vehicle use4
Recreation and ceremony2
Fireworks2
Arson/incendiarism1
Smoking1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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 2020Fireworks42 acresIdaho Department of LandsDUSTY
7 September 2004Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsSANTA CREEK
6 September 2017Equipment and vehicle use7.0 acresIdaho Department of LandsPETERSON
5 September 2003Smokingunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsSANDERS RD II
5 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsSO FK SANTA CK
3 September 2004Naturalunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsEMIDA PEAK
29 September 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreIdaho Panhandle National ForestSPLASH DAM #34
24 September 2001Natural3.0 acresIdaho Department of LandsCHOULSON CREEK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Benewah County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Emida: 5 past producers, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
Charlie Creek ProspectsGold, CopperOccurrence
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Michaels PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Benewah County

Storms near this place

1 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Emida in 1 storm report in 1998: 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
July 1998HailEmida-1 inch diameter hail.

Every storm recorded in Benewah 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
North South Ski Bowl3.3 miles11
Rover6.1 miles10
Cardwell6.7 miles10
Mashburn6.9 miles9
Alder Creek7.4 miles10
Wayland7.7 miles9
Lotus7.9 miles10
Santa8.2 miles9

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 EmidaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5371083The 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 381459. 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.