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Kootenai, Idaho

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Sandpoint census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83840. It stands on Boyer Slough. The Survey maps it on the Sandpoint quadrangle. 941 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,116 feet above sea level.

Kootenai within Bonner County

Population over time

2 figures

Kootenai grew from 678 to 941 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010678
2020941+263 (+39%)

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.

Fires near this place

55 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 55 fires within 5 miles of Kootenai between 1992 and 2020, burning about 379 acres in total. 21 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
Natural21
Debris and open burning14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Recreation and ceremony2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Equipment and vehicle use1
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
5 September 1995Naturalunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsSCHWEITZER MTN
4 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.6 acresPend Oreille Area OfficeEAGLE CREST
3 September 2016Naturalunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsLONE PINE
2 September 2011Naturalunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsGREENHORN
2 September 2011Naturalunder an acreIdaho Panhandle National ForestCITY OVERLOOK
1 September 2009Naturalunder an acreIdaho Panhandle National ForestECHO RIDGE
9 August 2008Naturalunder an acreIdaho Panhandle National ForestLESS TRAVELED
8 August 1994Naturalunder an acreIdaho Panhandle National Forestnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bonner 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 Kootenai: 11 past producers, 8 occurrences, 1 unknown, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold, Silver, Iron, Copper, Gold. 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
Big Hill MineGold, Silver, Copper, BismuthPast ProducerSurface/Underground
Boyer MinesZinc, Silver, Lead, Copper, GoldProspect
Hayes MineSilver, LeadOccurrence
Hayes ProspectLead, Silver, CopperOccurrenceVein
Iron Deposit ProspectIron, Copper, GoldOccurrence
Iron Deposit ProspectGold, CopperOccurrence
Iron OccurrenceIron, SilverOccurrence
KootenaiLead, SilverOccurrence
Kootenai ProspectZinc, Silver, LeadOccurrence1928
QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Bonner County

Storms near this place

2 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kootenai in 2 storm reports between 2007 and 2020: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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
August 2007Thunderstorm WindKootenai$2,000no account filed
June 2020HailKootenai-A member of the public reported hail with a diameter of 1.25 inches due to a passing thunderstorm near Kootenai.

Every storm 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Ponderay1.1 miles17
Culver3.1 miles14
Sandpoint3.1 miles17
Bronx3.4 miles17
Selle3.5 miles14
Boyer3.8 miles14
Oden5.4 miles14
Lignite5.8 miles18

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 KootenaiAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1518322The 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 397837. 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.