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Gardena, Idaho

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Horseshoe Bend census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83629. It stands on Brownlee Creek. The Survey maps it on the Horseshoe Bend quadrangle.

Gardena within Boise County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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

46 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 46 fires within 5 miles of Gardena between 1992 and 2020, burning about 19,921 acres in total. 11 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
Equipment and vehicle use21
Natural11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Arson/incendiarism1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Debris and open burning1
Smoking1

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
3 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined3,898 acresBoise National ForestCHIEF PARISH
3 September 1995Naturalunder an acreBoise DistrictCOTTONWOOD
18 September 2018Equipment and vehicle use7.2 acresIdaho Department of LandsSWS 015 MM65 HWY55
13 September 2013Naturalunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsBRAVO
13 September 2007Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsMILE MARKER 72 ON HWY 55
13 September 2003Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresIdaho Department of LandsMILE POST 73
11 September 2011Naturalunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsCRUICKSHANK
11 September 1999Debris and open burning30 acresIdaho Department of LandsBROWNLEE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Boise County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Gardena: 2 past producers, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Silver, Gold, Zinc, Antimony, Lead, Gold, 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
Gem State Consolidated MinesIronUnknown
OsborneGold, SilverPast Producer
Osborne MineSilver, Gold, Zinc, Antimony, LeadPast ProducerBoulangerite, Chalcopyrite, Galena, Sphalerite, Tetrahedrite

Every working recorded in Boise 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
Brownlee3.7 miles16
Horseshoe Bend4.2 miles15
Banks8.1 miles16
Quartzburg10.8 miles20
Granite12.1 miles20
Star Ranch Summer Home Area12.6 miles20
Placerville13.1 miles20
Howell (historical)13.1 miles15

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 GardenaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q28869258The 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 376157. 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.