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Long Creek Summit Home, Idaho

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1989. It stands in the Garden Valley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83637. It stands on Long Creek. The Survey maps it on the Miller Mountain West quadrangle.

Long Creek Summit Home within Boise County

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

70 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 70 fires within 5 miles of Long Creek Summit Home between 1992 and 2019, burning about 58 acres in total. 54 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
Natural54
Recreation and ceremony6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Smoking2
Debris and open burning2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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 2012Natural33 acresBoise National ForestMILLER
6 September 1992Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreBoise National Forestnot named
26 September 2004Naturalunder an acreBoise National ForestHIGHWAY 17
23 September 2011Naturalunder an acreBoise National ForestKEEFE
21 September 1998Naturalunder an acreBoise National ForestSTAUB
21 September 1998Naturalunder an acreBoise National ForestSAM CREEK
18 September 1998Naturalunder an acreBoise National ForestCUP CREEK
14 September 2001Naturalunder an acreBoise National ForestHOT

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Boise 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 Long Creek Summit Home: 6 occurrences, 6 prospects, 4 past producers, 2 unknowns. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Geothermal, Stone, Dimension, Silica. 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
Miller Mtn. MineGold, SilverPast Producer
Unnamed ProspectSilicaUnknown
Crow ProspectGold, Stone, DimensionProspect
Haven Hot SpringsGeothermalProducer
Kirkham Hot SpringsGeothermalOccurrence
Lick Creek ProspectStone, DimensionProspect
Clear Creek ProspectGoldProspect
Hillside #1 ProspectGoldProspect
Hillside #11 ProspectGoldOccurrence
Hillside #12 ProspectGoldProspect

Every working recorded in Boise 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
Lowman4.1 miles11
Banner8.1 miles11
Grimes Pass16.0 miles13
Tenmile Summer Home Area17.8 miles18
Pioneerville18.2 miles19
Camp Creek Summer Home Area19.1 miles17
Washington Mill19.2 miles19
Graham (historical)19.7 miles14

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 Q122570020The 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 394047. 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.