McCarthy, Idaho

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.

• Wallace 1910 Fire Memoriallisted 1984 · 0.4 miles away
• Nine Mile Cemeterylisted 2025 · 0.4 miles away

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.

• 1901 USGS Coeur D'Alene District quadrangle1:62500
• 1903 USGS Coeur D'Alene District quadrangle1:62500
• 1906 USGS Coeur D'Alene District quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
• 1914 USGS Avery quadrangle1:125000
• 1917 USGS Avery quadrangle1:125000
• 1956 USGS Wallace quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1957 USGS Wallace quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
• 1960 USGS Wallace quadrangle1:250000
• 1988 USGS Wallace quadrangle1:24000
• 1994 USGS Wallace quadrangle1:100000
• 1995 USGS Wallace quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 65 fires within 5 miles of McCarthy between 1993 and 2020, burning about 38 acres in total. 26 started naturally. 3 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Blackcloud
• Bunn
• Gem
• Gentry
• Nuckols
• Webb

Every fire recorded in Shoshone County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 187 workings within 5 miles of McCarthy: 62 past producers, 59 occurrences, 38 prospects, 20 producers. 20 still produce. What was taken out: Silver, Silver, Lead, Zinc, Lead, Lead. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Shoshone County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 397897. 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.