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.
Population over time
2 figuresKootenai 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 678 | |
| 2020 | 941 | +263 (+39%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 17 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.
- 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 Sandpoint quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1984 USGS Sandpoint quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1996 USGS Sandpoint quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
55 since 1992Regional 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 21 |
| Debris and open burning | 14 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 12 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 1995 | Natural | under an acre | Idaho Department of Lands | SCHWEITZER MTN |
| 4 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.6 acres | Pend Oreille Area Office | EAGLE CREST |
| 3 September 2016 | Natural | under an acre | Idaho Department of Lands | LONE PINE |
| 2 September 2011 | Natural | under an acre | Idaho Department of Lands | GREENHORN |
| 2 September 2011 | Natural | under an acre | Idaho Panhandle National Forest | CITY OVERLOOK |
| 1 September 2009 | Natural | under an acre | Idaho Panhandle National Forest | ECHO RIDGE |
| 9 August 2008 | Natural | under an acre | Idaho Panhandle National Forest | LESS TRAVELED |
| 8 August 1994 | Natural | under an acre | Idaho Panhandle National Forest | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 22 shownRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Big Hill Mine | Gold, Silver, Copper, Bismuth | Past Producer | Surface/Underground | |
| Boyer Mines | Zinc, Silver, Lead, Copper, Gold | Prospect | ||
| Hayes Mine | Silver, Lead | Occurrence | ||
| Hayes Prospect | Lead, Silver, Copper | Occurrence | Vein | |
| Iron Deposit Prospect | Iron, Copper, Gold | Occurrence | ||
| Iron Deposit Prospect | Gold, Copper | Occurrence | ||
| Iron Occurrence | Iron, Silver | Occurrence | ||
| Kootenai | Lead, Silver | Occurrence | ||
| Kootenai Prospect | Zinc, Silver, Lead | Occurrence | 1928 | |
| Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
2 since 2007Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kootenai | $2,000 | no account filed |
| June 2020 | Hail | Kootenai | - | A member of the public reported hail with a diameter of 1.25 inches due to a passing thunderstorm near Kootenai. |
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.
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 Kootenai | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1518322 | 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 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.








