Kelso, Idaho

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Blanchard-Glengary census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83801. The Survey maps it on the Careywood quadrangle.

Kelso within Bonner County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 17 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.

1901 USGS Sandpoint quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
1911 USGS Priest Lake quadrangle1:250000
1911 USGS Sandpoint quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1913 USGS Priest Lake quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Sandpoint quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1963 USGS Sandpoint quadrangle1:250000
1968 USGS Careywood quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1984 USGS Sandpoint quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1996 USGS Careywood quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

110 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 110 fires within 5 miles of Kelso between 1992 and 2020, burning about 361 acres in total. 15 started naturally. 5 were 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
Debris and open burning	44
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20
Natural	15
Recreation and ceremony	8
Arson/incendiarism	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	5
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Fireworks	4
Smoking	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	2

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
9 September 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Idaho Department of Lands	ROCK SPRINGS 2
8 September 2011	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Idaho Department of Lands	WAKENA
7 September 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Idaho Department of Lands	GRANITE HILL
5 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Idaho Department of Lands	ARTHUR ROAD
24 September 2012	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Idaho Department of Lands	CLAGSTONE 22
23 September 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Idaho Department of Lands	OLD 95
22 September 2011	Natural	under an acre	Idaho Department of Lands	BARNHART
20 September 1999	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Idaho Department of Lands	ALICE CT 09

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bonner County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Kelso: 4 past producers, 4 occurrences, 2 producers, 2 prospects. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silver, Gold, Silver, Copper. 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
Cape Horn	Silver, Gold, Copper	Prospect
Cape Horn Prospect	Copper, Gold, Silver	Occurrence	Vein
Clagst One Pit	Stone	Past Producer
Halliwill	Uranium, Copper	Occurrence
Halliwill Prospect	Uranium, Copper	Occurrence	Torbernite
North Light	Gold, Silver, Copper	Prospect
Unnamed Location	Silver	Occurrence
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Careywood	3.7 miles	17
Clagstone	5.3 miles	17
Harlem	5.9 miles	17
Edgemere	7.3 miles	17
Vay	8.1 miles	17
Cocolalla	8.1 miles	16
Sawyer	9.5 miles	16
Seneacquoteen	10.0 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 399092. 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.