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Lewiston Orchards, Idaho

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Lewiston census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83501. The Survey maps it on the Lewiston Orchards North quadrangle.

Lewiston Orchards within Nez Perce County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

16 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Lewiston Orchards between 1997 and 2020, burning about 217 acres in total. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Smoking3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Other causes2
Recreation and ceremony1
Debris and open burning1

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
7 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNez Perce TribeEVENTS
8 August 1997Smokingunder an acreNez Perce TribeCASINO
6 August 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNez Perce TribeNORTH CASINO
25 August 2007Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreNez Perce TribeS & S
21 August 1997Smoking34 acresNez Perce TribeHERCO
17 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.8 acresIdaho Department of LandsGRANITE LANE
17 August 2018Power generation/transmission/distribution5.0 acresNez Perce TribeSLEEPING CHIEF
1 August 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresCottonwood Field OfficeLARSON ROAD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Nez Perce County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Lewiston Orchards: 8 producers, 5 past producers, 1 occurrence. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Flagstone, Clay. 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
Clarkston QuarryFlagstonePast Producer
McGregor PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Tammany Creek Clay Occurrence No. 28ClayOccurrenceClay
Barnes PitStoneProducer
Kaufman QuarryStoneProducer
Northwest AggregatesStonePast Producer
Asotin PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Clarkston PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Duthie PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Nez Perce County

Storms near this place

7 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lewiston Orchards in 7 storm reports between 1998 and 2020: 3 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 funnel cloud. 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 2011Thunderstorm WindLewiston Orchards$7,000A highly localized microburst or possible gustnado resulted in minor damage of the Eagle Point subdivision approximately four miles east of downtown Lewiston. A section of a sheet metal roof was lifted off a two-story shop, a boat trailer was pushed into the outbuilding denting the sheet metal, three two-inch diameter trees were snapped, a travel trailer was knocked down, and lawn objects became airborne breaking one window of a house.
July 1998Thunderstorm WindLewiston Orchards$5,000power lines blown down.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindLewiston Orchards$3,000A severe thunderstorm in the Blue Mountains over Columbia County in Washington produced a gust front that pushed through the Lewiston area. Lewiston Orchards seemed to feel the brunt of this outflow boundary with wind gusts up to 45 mph recorded at the Lewiston-Nez Perce County Airport. A few small trees were knocked over with trunks estimated at six to eight inches in diameter. Some small branches were broken off as well.
June 2020Funnel CloudLewiston Orchards-A storm chaser reported a brief funnel cloud with an area of convection approaching the Lewiston area.
June 2012HailLewiston Orchards-no account filed
July 2012HailLewiston Orchards-no account filed
July 2012HailLewiston Orchards-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Nez Perce 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
Valley View Heights3.0 miles9
Forebay3.1 miles9
Lewiston3.3 miles12
Gurney3.4 miles9
North Lewiston3.4 miles12
Hatwai3.9 miles9
Transfer4.4 miles12
Webb8.0 miles9

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.

Wikidata item Q49356701The 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 396789. 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.