Greencreek, Idaho

10 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 83533. The Survey maps it on the Cottonwood quadrangle. It stands 3,189 feet above sea level.

Greencreek within Idaho County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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.

1924 USGS Kamiah quadrangle1:125000
1955 USGS Pullman quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Pullman quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1967 USGS Cottonwood quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1981 USGS Orofino quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

9 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Greencreek between 2000 and 2015, burning about 239 acres in total. 5 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	5
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Fireworks	1

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
2 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	172 acres	Nez Perce Tribe	FREI HILL
2 August 2014	Natural	under an acre	Idaho Department of Lands	STOCKNEY
17 August 2013	Natural	under an acre	Idaho Department of Lands	ROCKY BUTTE
15 August 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	56 acres	Nez Perce Tribe	CUMMINS
10 August 2015	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Nez Perce Tribe	CRANE HILL
10 August 2000	Natural	10 acres	Idaho Department of Lands	UPPER LAWYERS
5 July 2007	Fireworks	under an acre	Nez Perce Tribe	THORN SPRINGS
6 June 2009	Natural	under an acre	Nez Perce Tribe	GRAFFITIT

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Idaho County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Greencreek: 4 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Dimension. 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
Unnamed Quarry	Stone, Dimension	Past Producer
Borrow Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Borrow Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

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
Dryden	3.9 miles	8
Cottonwood	6.1 miles	10
Ferdinand	7.3 miles	8
Denver	7.7 miles	10
Winona	8.5 miles	10
Fenn	9.9 miles	8
Keuterville	10.7 miles	8
Westlake	12.9 miles	8

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 Greencreek	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5603799	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 372923. 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.