Helena, Idaho

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Council census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83654. It stands on Copper Creek. The Survey maps it on the White Monument quadrangle.

Helena within Adams 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.

1920 USGS Seven Devils Mining District quadrangle1:48000
1955 USGS Grangeville quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1957 USGS Cuprum quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1959 USGS Grangeville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1987 USGS Riggins quadrangle1:100000
1990 USGS White Monument quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

60 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 60 fires within 5 miles of Helena between 1992 and 2020, burning about 387 acres in total. 46 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	46
Recreation and ceremony	8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Debris and open burning	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
6 September 2014	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Wallowa-Whitman National Forest	INCIDENT 1159
5 September 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Payette National Forest	not named
3 September 2011	Natural	under an acre	Payette National Forest	BRONCO
3 September 1994	Natural	under an acre	Payette National Forest	SAWPIT
21 September 1994	Natural	under an acre	Wallowa-Whitman National Forest	not named
2 September 2017	Natural	22 acres	Wallowa-Whitman National Forest	PYRAMID PEAK
19 September 2005	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Wallowa-Whitman National Forest	SIX LAKES
16 September 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Payette National Forest	PLACER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Adams County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 54 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 54 workings within 5 miles of Helena: 22 prospects, 21 past producers, 10 occurrences, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Copper, Gold, Gold, Silver, Silver, Gold. 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	Recorded
Alaska Mine	Tungsten, Copper, Molybdenum	Past Producer	1892, 1952
Arkansas Mine	Copper, Lead, Gold, Silver	Past Producer	1887
Axe	Copper, Silver, Lead, Gold, Zinc	Past Producer
Blue Jacket Mine	Copper, Gold, Silver, Lead, Tungsten	Past Producer	1887, 1897
Brooklyn Group	Silver, Gold, Copper	Occurrence	1895
California Prospect	Copper, Garnet, Calcium, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, Dimension	Prospect	Contact Metamorphic
Calumet Prospect	Copper, Gold, Silver, Tungsten	Past Producer	Contact Metamorphic
Chieftain Claim	Gold, Silver, Molybdenum, Copper	Prospect
Helena Mine	Gold, Silver, Copper, Molybdenum, Tungsten	Past Producer	1887
Lockwood Mine	Copper, Silver, Tungsten, Molybdenum	Past Producer	1890

Every working recorded in Adams 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
Landore	3.5 miles	13
Cuprum	6.1 miles	13
Rankin Mill	8.7 miles	16
Bear	10.1 miles	13
Pinehurst	17.8 miles	13
Rubicon	19.9 miles	14
Tamarack	20.5 miles	13
Pine Ridge	21.4 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 397782. 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.