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Leadore, Idaho

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1987. It stands in the Leadore census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83464. It stands on Eighteenmile Creek. The Survey maps it on the Leadore quadrangle. 98 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,971 feet above sea level.

Leadore within Lemhi County

On record in Leadore

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

Population over time

2 figures

Leadore fell from 105 to 98 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
2010105
202098-7 (-7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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

6 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Leadore between 1994 and 2004, burning about 5 acres in total. 4 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
Natural4
Equipment and vehicle use1
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
31 August 1996Natural1.0 acresIdaho Falls DistrictTEXAS
15 August 2004Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreIdaho Falls DistrictSMOKEY CUB
30 July 1998Naturalunder an acreSalmon-Challis National ForestTHOMPSON
12 July 2002Naturalunder an acreSalmon-Challis National ForestSTROUD
10 July 1994Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresSalmon-Challis National Forestnot named
26 June 2002Naturalunder an acreSalmon-Challis National ForestLEADORE HILL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lemhi County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 27 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 27 workings within 5 miles of Leadore: 10 past producers, 8 unknowns, 7 occurrences, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Lead, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silver, Zinc. 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
Geothermal LocationPotassiumOccurrence
Iron Dyke ClaimManganese, ZincOccurrence
Junction DistrictLead, SilverProducerREPLACEMENT VEIN
Kimmel MineLead, Silver, Gold, CopperPast Producer
LeadvilleLead, Silver, Zinc, Copper, GoldPast Producer
Mineral Hill MineLead, Silver, CopperPast ProducerGalena
New Eldorado ClaimsCopper, Zinc, ManganeseOccurrence
Old More ShaftZinc, Manganese, LeadProspect
Peacock ProspectCopper, Gold, SilverPast Producer
Sunset MineSilver, Lead, Gold, Zinc, Antimony, CopperPast Producer1904, 1908

Every working recorded in Lemhi County

Storms near this place

10 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Leadore in 10 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 2 heavy rain, 1 lightning. The reports record 2 injuries. 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
June 1998LightningLeadore2 hurtno account filed
June 2025Thunderstorm WindLeadore$70,000Destructive thunderstorms swept through the Leadore area, unleashing estimated wind gusts of 80 mph. A local motel and a double-wide mobile home had their roofs ripped off by the violent winds. The storm also toppled trees, damaged home siding, pushed over 300 feet of fencing, and rolled a 300-gallon fuel tank.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindLeadore$4,000Trained spotter in Leadore reported numerous downed trees along Highway 28.
July 2014Heavy RainLeadore-The weather spotter at the Leadore Ranger Station reported 0.40 of rainfall that fell in less than an hour.
July 2014HailLeadore-The spotter at the Leadore Ranger Station reported dime to penny size hail.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindLeadore-The Leadore Creek RAWS station at 6,150 ft., reported a 60 mph wind gust between 3:36 and 4:36 pm MDT thanks to a decaying thunderstorm cell that passed just to its north.
July 2011Heavy RainLeadore-Over 1 inch of rain was recorded by the Leadore Creek RAWS within an hour.
July 2008HailLeadore-A trained spotter reported penny sized hail and 1.50 inches of rain in 40 minutes at Leadore.
July 2001Thunderstorm WindLeadore-no account filed
August 2001Thunderstorm WindLeadore-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lemhi 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
Junction1.6 miles10
Leadville3.2 miles10
Gilmore16.0 miles11
Lemhi18.2 miles11
Patterson21.7 miles10
Hahn22.5 miles11
Tendoy24.5 miles11
Nicholia28.7 miles11

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 LeadoreAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1510940The 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 396775. 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.