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Heath, Idaho

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Cambridge census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83610. It stands on Camp Creek. The Survey maps it on the Brownlee Dam quadrangle.

Heath within Washington County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

23 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Heath between 1992 and 2020, burning about 97,456 acres in total. 9 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
Natural9
Recreation and ceremony6
Equipment and vehicle use3
Smoking1
Arson/incendiarism1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Debris and open burning1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
7 September 2020Recreation and ceremony96,614 acresPayette National ForestWOODHEAD
5 September 2013Naturalunder an acrePayette National ForestBROWNLEE
10 September 2015Naturalunder an acrePayette National ForestCONNER GULCH
9 August 2019Recreation and ceremonyunder an acrePayette National ForestBROWNLEE
6 August 2001Recreation and ceremonyunder an acrePayette National ForestWOODHEAD
28 August 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acrePayette National ForestBROWNLEE
25 August 1994Debris and open burning1.0 acresPayette National ForestJACKSON
24 August 2000Naturalunder an acrePayette National ForestTRIBE FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Washington County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 22 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 22 workings within 5 miles of Heath: 14 prospects, 5 occurrences, 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Copper, Silver, Manganese, Iron. 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
Belmont MineSilver, Lead, ZincPast Producer1885
Climax ProspectSilver, CopperOccurrenceContact Metasomatic
Four V ProspectCopper, Gold, SilverProspectChalcopyrite, Malachite
Grade Creek ProspectCopper, Zinc, Silver, LeadProspectChalcopyrite, Chrysocolla, Galena, Malachite
Hercules Group ProspectCopper, Silver, Gold, Lead, ZincOccurrenceVein
Houlahan ProspectLead, SilverProspectReplacement
IXL MineMolybdenum, Copper, Silver, Lead, ZincProducer1921
MontezumaGold, SilverProspect
Railroad MineCopper, Bismuth, Gold, SilverPast ProducerContact Metasomatic
Thor PropertyZinc, Lead, SilverOccurrenceVein

Every working recorded in Washington County

Storms near this place

1 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Heath in 1 storm report in 2011: 1 flash flood. 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 2011Flash FloodHeath-Local law enforcement reported flash flooding with mudslides along State Road 71 between Cambridge and Oxbow Dam and on U.S Highway 95 between Weiser and Cambridge.

Every storm recorded in Washington 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
Heath (historical)6.0 miles13
Cambridge16.7 miles11
Mineral16.8 miles14
Salubria17.5 miles11
Midvale21.1 miles15
Diamond24.3 miles15
Barton26.0 miles15
Concrete28.0 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 395456. 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.