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Midasville, Idaho

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Elk City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83525. It stands on Boulder Creek. The Survey maps it on the Dixie quadrangle.

Midasville within Idaho County

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

125 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 125 fires within 5 miles of Midasville between 1992 and 2017, burning about 43,983 acres in total. 121 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
Natural121
Recreation and ceremony2
Debris and open burning1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
8 September 2011Naturalunder an acreNez Perce - Clearwater National ForestsSUMMIT
8 September 2006Naturalunder an acreNez Perce - Clearwater National ForestsLOST HUNTER
7 September 1999Naturalunder an acreNez Perce - Clearwater National Forests4TH JULY
7 September 1998Naturalunder an acreNez Perce - Clearwater National ForestsBURPEE
6 September 1998Naturalunder an acreNez Perce - Clearwater National ForestsSUMMIT
5 September 2013Naturalunder an acreNez Perce - Clearwater National ForestsLIME
5 September 2013Naturalunder an acreNez Perce - Clearwater National ForestsMUNSTER
29 September 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreNez Perce - Clearwater National ForestsCOMSTOCK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Idaho County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 48 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 48 workings within 5 miles of Midasville: 32 past producers, 11 prospects, 5 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Copper, Zinc, Lead, Lead, Zinc, Copper, Silver. 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
American MineGold, Lead, Copper, ZincPast Producer1893, 1897
Bonanza MineGold, Copper, Lead, ZincPast Producer1896
Crooked Creek PlacerGold, Titanium, REEPast ProducerPlacer
Dixie Comstock MineLead, Silver, Gold, VanadiumPast Producer1896
Gold LeafGold, Copper, Lead, SilverPast Producer
Idaho ComstockSilver, Vanadium, Gold, LeadPast Producer
North Star MineGold, Silver, CopperPast Producer1891
Robinson Dike MineGold, Lead, SilverPast Producer1904, 1935
Skylark MineGold, Copper, Lead, Zinc, SilverPast Producer1897
Slip Easy MineGold, Zinc, Lead, Copper, SilverPast ProducerVein

Every working recorded in Idaho 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
Dixie0.6 miles10
Jim Moore Place8.6 miles8
Orogrande10.8 miles12
Concord11.4 miles13
Calendar11.5 miles13
Lightfoot12.4 miles10
Mackay Bar12.9 miles11
Gibler13.0 miles10

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 Q122570181The 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 396887. 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.