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Lower Stanley, Idaho

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1989. It stands in the Stanley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83278. It stands on Nip and Tuck Creek. The Survey maps it on the Stanley quadrangle.

Lower Stanley within Custer County

On record in Lower Stanley

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 2 records

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

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 16 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

53 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 53 fires within 5 miles of Lower Stanley between 1992 and 2020, burning about 216 acres in total. 21 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
Natural21
Recreation and ceremony16
Smoking7
Debris and open burning3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Arson/incendiarism1
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
5 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSawtooth National ForestHAZARD
29 September 1997Arson/incendiarismunder an acreSawtooth National ForestCROOKED CREEK
23 September 1997Smokingunder an acreSawtooth National ForestBUCKHORN
19 September 2000Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSalmon-Challis National ForestNOHO
15 September 2019Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSawtooth National ForestMARSHALL
9 August 2005Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSawtooth National ForestREPEATER
9 August 1998Naturalunder an acreSawtooth National ForestRANCH
8 August 2008Naturalunder an acreSawtooth National ForestBOUNDARY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Custer County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 71 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 71 workings within 5 miles of Lower Stanley: 26 prospects, 24 past producers, 19 occurrences, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Geothermal, Uranium. 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
Aspen ProspectGold, Copper, Zinc, Silver, LeadProspectVein
Big Casino Creek PlacerGold, Iron, Garnet, Zirconium, Titanium, REEPast ProducerPlacer
Blind Ledge ProspectGold, Lead, Silver, CopperOccurrence
Bright Star MineGold, Silver, Uranium, Tellurium, Fluorine-FluoritePast Producer1895
Bronco MineLead, Silver, Gold, Copper, ZincPast Producer1895
East Storlie ProspectSilver, Lead, Copper, GoldProspectVein
ElizabethSilver, Gold, Fluorine-FluoriteOccurrence
Four Aces PlacerGold, Garnet, Zirconium, Titanium, REE, IronPast ProducerPlacer
Fran Clara ProspectLead, Copper, ZincProspectVein
Gold Chance MineGold, Silver, Fluorine-Fluorite, UraniumPast Producer1893

Every working recorded in Custer 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
Stanley0.8 miles16
Sunbeam10.7 miles16
Obsidian11.1 miles16
Robinson Bar13.4 miles15
Grandjean13.5 miles17
Bonanza14.5 miles16
Custer16.6 miles15
Torreys17.4 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 Q122538876The 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 397881. 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.