Fourway Junction, Idaho

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 2004. It stands in the Elk City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83611. It stands on Hen Creek. The Survey maps it on the Mosquito Peak quadrangle.

Fourway Junction within Idaho County

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.

1956 USGS Elk City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1960 USGS Elk City quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1978 USGS Mosquito Peak quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Warren quadrangle1:100000
2004 USGS Mosquito Peak quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

57 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 57 fires within 5 miles of Fourway Junction between 1992 and 2017, burning about 18,071 acres in total. 57 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
Natural	57

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
8 September 2017	Natural	under an acre	Payette National Forest	CHICKEN PEAK
6 September 1994	Natural	2.0 acres	Payette National Forest	BUZZER
16 September 2001	Natural	under an acre	Payette National Forest	LITTLE SHEEPEATER
12 September 2017	Natural	under an acre	Payette National Forest	MILE CREEK
12 September 1996	Natural	under an acre	Payette National Forest	CHICKEN/PNF
12 September 1996	Natural	under an acre	Payette National Forest	S FK CHAMBERLAIN PNF
12 September 1996	Natural	under an acre	Payette National Forest	LAIN/PNF
12 September 1996	Natural	under an acre	Payette National Forest	SLEEPY/PNF

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Idaho County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Fourway Junction: 4 prospects, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Silver, Gold, Iron, Titanium, Zirconium, Rhenium, Copper, Lead, Gold. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Ann Nos. 1 and 2	Lead, Silver, Zinc, Gold	Prospect	1932
Crane Meadows Placer	Gold, Iron, Titanium, Zirconium, Rhenium	Occurrence	Placer
Little Sheepeater Prospect	Silver, Copper, Lead, Gold	Prospect	1949
Silver Bell Prospect	Gold, Silver	Prospect	1970
Hen Creek Prospect	Silver	Prospect

Every working 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Mackay Bar	8.2 miles	11
Jim Moore Place	10.7 miles	8
Dixie	16.1 miles	10
Midasville	16.7 miles	10
Warren	17.3 miles	12
Cross Trails	20.0 miles	11
Concord	24.3 miles	13
Calendar	25.9 miles	13

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 Q122541080

The 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 396511. 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.