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Lamb Creek, Idaho

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Priest River census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83856. The Survey maps it on the Priest Lake SW quadrangle. It stands 2,556 feet above sea level.

Lamb Creek within Bonner County

On record in Lamb Creek

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

126 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 126 fires within 5 miles of Lamb Creek between 1992 and 2020, burning about 21 acres in total. 54 started naturally. 4 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
Natural54
Missing data/not specified/undetermined30
Recreation and ceremony12
Power generation/transmission/distribution10
Debris and open burning6
Arson/incendiarism4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Smoking2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Fireworks2
Other causes1

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
8 September 2004Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreIdaho Panhandle National ForestHOT LINE
8 September 1995Naturalunder an acreIdaho Panhandle National Forest639C
5 September 2011Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsCOOLIN BURBS
4 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsSHERWOOD POWERLINE
3 September 2005Naturalunder an acreIdaho Panhandle National ForestPOWERLINE
29 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsSTEAMBOAT BAY
26 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIdaho Department of Lands255 FIRE
25 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIdaho Panhandle National ForestLINDA LANE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bonner County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 19 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 19 workings within 5 miles of Lamb Creek: 9 past producers, 6 occurrences, 3 prospects, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold, Silver, Zinc, Copper, Gold, Lead, Silver, Zinc, Lead. 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
Binarch Cr. GroupIronProspect
Binarch Cr. Mining Co. ProspectGold, Silver, Zinc, CopperOccurrenceVein
IdahoCopper, Silver, GoldOccurrence
Milwaukee MineBeryllium, Lead, SilverProspect
Milwaukee MinesGold, Silver, ZincUnknown
Milwaukee Mines ProspectLead, SilverOccurrenceVein
Nevada Mines ProspectGold, Lead, Silver, ZincOccurrenceVein
Nevada Mines ProspectLead, Zinc, Silver, GoldOccurrence
Rat GroupSilver, Lead, ZincProspect
Unnamed LocationUraniumOccurrence

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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Vans Corner0.9 miles12
Outlet Bay2.4 miles18
Dickensheet Junction4.6 miles18
Sherwood Beach4.8 miles16
Coolin4.8 miles16
Nordman8.2 miles12
Four Corners16.1 miles17
Colburn22.4 miles16

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 Lamb CreekAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6481029The 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 396762. 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.