Granite, Idaho

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

• Placerville Historic Districtlisted 1984 · 1.0 miles away

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.

• 1894 USGS Idaho Basin quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
• 1894 USGS Idaho City quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
• 1955 USGS Hailey quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1957 USGS Placerville quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1959 USGS Hailey quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1962 USGS Hailey quadrangle1:250000
• 1976 USGS Placerville quadrangle1:24000
• 1982 USGS Idaho City quadrangle1:100000
• 1998 USGS Placerville quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 104 fires within 5 miles of Granite between 1992 and 2020, burning about 146 acres in total. 69 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.

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

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Placerville
• Quartzburg
• Star Ranch Summer Home Area
• Centerville
• New Centerville
• Pioneerville

Every fire recorded in Boise County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 78 workings within 5 miles of Granite: 37 past producers, 22 occurrences, 9 unknowns, 7 producers. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Lead, Silver, Lead, Copper, Zinc. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Boise County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 396580. 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.