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Granite, Idaho

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Clark Fork census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83803. It stands on Granite Creek. The Survey maps it on the Minerva Peak quadrangle.

Granite within Bonner County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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

23 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Granite between 1994 and 2020, burning about 33 acres in total. 12 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
Natural12
Recreation and ceremony5
Debris and open burning2
Smoking1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Fireworks1

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
8 September 2011Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreIdaho Panhandle National ForestPACKSADDLE 18
19 September 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreIdaho Panhandle National ForestTALACHE CREEK
16 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresPend Oreille Area Office117
13 September 1996Naturalunder an acreIdaho Panhandle National ForestBRUSH CANYON
11 September 2016Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreIdaho Panhandle National ForestKILROY
6 August 2000Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreIdaho Panhandle National ForestWHISKEY STUMP
3 August 2001Naturalunder an acreIdaho Panhandle National ForestMINERVA 6
25 August 2020Fireworksunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsPOS 011 TALACHE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bonner County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 32 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 32 workings within 5 miles of Granite: 16 occurrences, 9 past producers, 3 prospects, 2 unknowns. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Silver, Gold, Copper, Lead, Gold, 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
American Eagle ProspectSilver, Lead, Gold, Copper, ZincOccurrenceVein
Anderson ProspectCopper, Lead, Gold, Silver, ZincOccurrenceVein
Bluebird MineSilver, Gold, Copper, Antimony, Lead, ZincProducerVein
Falls Creek MineCopper, Silver, Lead, GoldPast Producer
Falls Creek ProspectCopper, Silver, LeadOccurrenceVein
Green MonarchGold, Copper, SilverPast Producer
MariposaGold, Silver, CopperPast Producer
Minerva and WhalenGold, Copper, Lead, Silver, ZincPast Producer
O'Shaughnessy ProspectCopper, Silver, GoldOccurrence
Packsaddle MineCopper, Gold, Lead, SilverProspect

Every working recorded in Bonner County

Storms near this place

1 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Granite in 1 storm report in 2012: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
June 2012Thunderstorm WindGranite-A United States Navy buoy on Lake Pend Oreille measured an outflow wind gusts of 61 mph from a severe thunderstorm moving north across the Coeur d'Alene National Forest.

Every storm recorded in Bonner 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
Blacktail3.9 miles16
Talache Landing4.0 miles16
Talache4.8 miles16
Cedar Creek4.9 miles16
Evans Landing5.7 miles16
Garfield6.7 miles16
Lakeview8.2 miles14
Newman8.3 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 397757. 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.