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Lake Fork, Idaho

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the McCall census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83638. The Survey maps it on the Lake Fork quadrangle. It stands 4,974 feet above sea level.

Lake Fork within Valley County

On record in Lake Fork

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 7 records

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 13 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

79 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 79 fires within 5 miles of Lake Fork between 1992 and 2019, burning about 125 acres in total. 27 started naturally. 1 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
Natural27
Debris and open burning18
Recreation and ceremony12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Equipment and vehicle use5
Smoking4
Fireworks1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
9 September 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsJUGHANDLE 60
7 September 2006Naturalunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsJUGHANDLE
7 September 1998Naturalunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsLOUIE CREEK
5 September 2014Recreation and ceremony63 acresIdaho Department of LandsWHITE CLOUD
3 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsWALK
22 September 1993Debris and open burningunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsBARREL
2 September 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsGRASSY
16 September 2011Naturalunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsTWIN FORKS

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Valley County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Lake Fork: 3 past producers, 3 prospects, 2 producers, 2 occurrences. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Quartz, Silica, REE. 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
Boulder Creek PlacerTitaniumProspect
Jacobs PropertySilicaOccurrenceVein
Lake Fork CreekREE, Zirconium, Iron, Titanium, GarnetUnknown
Goodenough ProspectQuartzOccurrence1943
Goodenough ProspectQuartzProspect
JacobsQuartzProspect
Jacobs QuartzQuartzPast Producer
Lake Fork County PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Lake Fork PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Soulen Pit & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Valley 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
Norwood1.9 miles13
Archabal2.2 miles13
Spink3.5 miles13
Elo (historical)3.7 miles16
Old Fort4.1 miles13
McCall5.5 miles16
Donnelly7.0 miles13
Roseberry7.3 miles13

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 Lake ForkAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6475877The 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 396759. 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.