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Harvard, Idaho

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Potlatch census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83834. It stands on Maple Creek. The Survey maps it on the Harvard quadrangle. It stands 2,575 feet above sea level.

Harvard within Latah County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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

42 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 42 fires within 5 miles of Harvard between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,105 acres in total. 27 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
Natural27
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Equipment and vehicle use6
Debris and open burning2
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
9 September 1996Equipment and vehicle use13 acresIdaho Department of LandsDRIVELINE
4 September 2010Natural3.8 acresPonderosa Area OfficeMOON HILL
2 September 1996Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsWEST GROUSE CREEK
17 September 2001Naturalunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsFLAT CREEK
16 September 2001Naturalunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsQUEENER CREEK
16 September 2001Naturalunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsQUARTZ ROAD
13 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresIdaho Department of LandsHATTER CREEK
13 September 1994Smokingunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsMT MARGARET

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Latah County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 16 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Harvard: 10 occurrences, 6 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Gold, Copper, Beryllium, Mica. 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
Bishop Claim ProspectSilver, Gold, CopperOccurrenceVein
Gold Bug ProspectGold, Silver, CopperOccurrence1882
Gold Hill ProspectCopper, Gold, SilverOccurrenceChalcocite, Chalcopyrite, Chrysocolla, Copper, Covellite, Cuprite, Malachite, Tetrahedrite
Harvard PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Mc Kinney ProspectBeryllium, MicaPast ProducerBeryl, Muscovite
Milbert ProspectIronOccurrenceMagnetite
Yale Clay OccurrenceClayOccurrenceClay
Black Horse ProspectGold, CopperOccurrenceVein
Copper Ridge ProspectGold, CopperOccurrenceVein
Blackfoot ProspectGoldOccurrenceVein

Every working recorded in Latah County

Storms near this place

1 since 2023

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Harvard in 1 storm report in 2023: 1 thunderstorm wind. The reports record 9 injuries. 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 2023Thunderstorm WindHarvard9 hurt, $150,000Latah county dispatch reported numerous large trees down at Pines RV Park. Several vehicles and RVs were damaged by fallen trees. Nine people suffered minor injures.

Every storm recorded in Latah 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
Chambers (historical)2.9 miles12
Yale (historical)4.2 miles11
Princeton5.5 miles12
Hampton6.3 miles12
Stanford7.4 miles11
Vassar8.5 miles11
Onaway8.6 miles12
Avon8.8 miles11

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 HarvardAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5676233The 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 396618. 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.