BlockKilgore, Idaho
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1989. It stands in the East Clark census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83423. It stands on Warm Creek. The Survey maps it on the Kilgore quadrangle.
On record in Kilgore
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 1 record
Camas Meadow Camp and Battle SitesNational Historic Landmark · listed 1989
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 9 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1955 USGS Ashton quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Ashton quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Ashton quadrangle1:250000
- 1972 USGS Kilgore quadrangle1:24000
- 1989 USGS Ashton quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
1 since 2010Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Kilgore in 2010, burning under an acre in total. None 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 |
|---|---|
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 July 2010 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Caribou-Targhee National Forest | MCGARY |
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Kilgore: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this place
5 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kilgore in 5 storm reports between 1996 and 2018: 2 flood, 1 heavy rain, 1 hail, 1 wildfire. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2018 | Flood | Kilgore | $680,000 | Snow melt began in earnest with warmer temperatures combined with periods of heavy rain in the latter half of March. This caused extensive sheet flooding in Clark County to the extent that the governor declared it a state of Idaho disaster area. Several county roads received extensive damage and were washed away. 1 home in the Medicine Lodge area flooded completely along with hay bail damage and crop damage. The Birch Creek Campground also had extensive damage with several campgrounds along the birch Creek washed away. The county placed damage estimates close to 700 thousand dollars. |
| May 2011 | Flood | Kilgore | - | Flooding of pasture and agricultural fields occurred. Some roads in the Kilgore area were flooded and several roads werre raised to avoid the flood waters. |
| September 2003 | Wildfire | Kilgore | - | no account filed |
| August 2002 | Hail | Kilgore | - | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Heavy Rain | Kilgore | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Idmon | 3.0 miles | 9 | |
| Eighteenmile | 7.0 miles | 9 | |
| Spencer | 15.8 miles | 8 | |
| Old Beaver | 16.1 miles | 8 | |
| Highbridge | 18.8 miles | 8 | |
| Humphrey | 19.0 miles | 8 | |
| Dubois | 23.7 miles | 8 | |
| Jones Crossing | 27.8 miles | 9 |
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 Kilgore | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q6406858 | 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 396738. 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.