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Ferdinand, Idaho

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1924 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Nez Perce census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83526. The Survey maps it on the Craigmont quadrangle. 133 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,707 feet above sea level.

Ferdinand within Idaho County

Population over time

2 figures

Ferdinand fell from 159 to 133 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
2010159
2020133-26 (-16%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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

24 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Ferdinand between 1993 and 2020, burning about 464 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 2 were 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
Natural12
Debris and open burning5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Arson/incendiarism2
Equipment and vehicle use1

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 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreNez Perce Tribe95 FIRE
7 September 2001Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresIdaho Department of LandsSOUTH BRIDGE
7 September 2001Arson/incendiarismunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsMETAL TRESSEL
3 September 1996Debris and open burning2.0 acresIdaho Department of LandsLAWYER
25 September 2007Debris and open burning208 acresNez Perce TribeEVERGREEN
22 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsROCK PIT BARN FIRE
2 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined172 acresNez Perce TribeFREI HILL
1 September 2020Equipment and vehicle use7.6 acresNez Perce TribeKINZER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Idaho 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 Ferdinand: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Platinum, Copper, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Cottonwood ButteGold, Silver, Platinum, CopperPast ProducerGold
Ferdinand PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Idaho County

Storms near this place

2 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ferdinand in 2 storm reports in 2010: 1 funnel cloud, 1 tornado. 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
October 2010Tornado (EF0)Ferdinand$25,000A US Forest Service employee observed a small tornado that briefly touched the ground west of Greencreek. There was substantial damage to the roof of a barn off New Hope Road, south side of Lawyers Canyon, about 3.5 miles from Ferdinand. There was an incredible amount of topsoil movement and severe erosion down onto a private access road, plugging several culverts. The sediment was backed up 2 to 3 feet high for 10 to 15 feet behind the culvert.
October 2010Funnel CloudFerdinand-A trained spotter reported a funnel cloud that was close to the ground.

Every storm recorded in Idaho 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
Westlake6.6 miles8
Greencreek7.3 miles10
Cottonwood7.5 miles10
Keuterville8.6 miles8
Dryden10.0 miles8
Denver13.4 miles10
Fenn14.8 miles8
Winona15.0 miles10

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 FerdinandAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1512033The 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 396483. 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.