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Featherville, Idaho

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Atlanta census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83647. It stands on Feather River. The Survey maps it on the Featherville quadrangle.

Featherville within Elmore County

On record in Featherville

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 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 16 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

73 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 73 fires within 5 miles of Featherville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 37,773 acres in total. 47 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
Natural47
Recreation and ceremony14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Smoking3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Debris and open burning1

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 2006Naturalunder an acreBoise National ForestPINE GULCH
9 September 1999Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSawtooth National ForestTENNIS
8 September 2004Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreBoise National ForestESCAPED CAMPFIRE
8 September 2001Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSawtooth National ForestMARSH CR.
4 September 1997Naturalunder an acreBoise National ForestLINCOLN CREEK
4 September 1997Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSawtooth National ForestMARSH CREEK
27 September 1997Naturalunder an acreBoise National ForestLINCOLN CREEK #2
17 September 2020Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSawtooth National ForestCHAPARRAL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Elmore County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 16 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Featherville: 7 past producers, 6 occurrences, 2 prospects, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Geothermal, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silver. 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
Feather RiverREE, Garnet, Iron, Titanium, ZirconiumUnknown
Marsh Creek PropertyGold, Copper, Lead, Zinc, SilverProspectChalcopyrite, Galena, Sphalerite
BoneparteGold, SilverPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Vibrator ProspectGold, SilverPast Producer
Geothermal LocationGeothermalOccurrence
Geothermal LocationGeothermalOccurrence
Geothermal LocationGeothermalOccurrence
Geothermal LocationGeothermalOccurrence

Every working recorded in Elmore County

Storms near this place

12 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Featherville in 12 storm reports between 2010 and 2024: 10 heavy rain, 1 flood, 1 flash flood. 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
November 2024Heavy RainFeatherville-The mesonet station WAGI1 at Wagontown RAWS measured 1.44 inches of rain.
March 2023Heavy RainFeatherville-The mesonet station CW0406 at Pine, ID measured 0.79 inches of heavy rain.
August 2023Flash FloodFeatherville-A trained spotter reported flash flooding over the road, stranding some motorcyclists on the main road in Featherville, ID.
August 2023Heavy RainFeatherville-The mesonet station CW0406 in Pine, ID measured 0.96 inches of rain.
August 2023Heavy RainFeatherville-Spotter reported 2.15 inches of rain total near Featherville.
August 2023Heavy RainFeatherville-The mesonet station CW0406 Pine measured 1.56 inches of heavy rain.
June 2023Heavy RainFeatherville-The mesonet station, WAGI1, near Featherville, ID measured 0.56 inches of heavy rainfall.
June 2022Heavy RainFeatherville-The Mesonet station, CW0406, near Pine, ID measured 1.43 inches of total rainfall.
June 2022Heavy RainFeatherville-The Mesonet station, CW0406, near Featherville, ID measured 2.96 inches of total rainfall.
October 2021Heavy RainFeatherville-The mesonet station WAGI1, 4.5 miles southwest of Featherville, ID, recorded 3.05 inches of rain.
October 2021Heavy RainFeatherville-A mesonet station CW0406, 2 miles southeast of Featherville, ID, measured 4.83 inches of rain from this storm.
June 2010FloodFeatherville-Wagon Town RAWS reported over 1.5 inches of rain and radar and satellite estimates indicated over 1 inch during the event which included damaged and sections of washed out roads.

Every storm recorded in Elmore 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
Paradise Hot Springs4.0 miles16
Rocky Bar5.7 miles14
Spanish Town (historical)6.9 miles14
Pine9.1 miles16
Alturas City (historical)14.2 miles16
Atlanta14.9 miles16
Prairie18.2 miles17
Reclamation Village22.5 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 Q122593621The 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 396479. 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.