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Oldtown, Idaho

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1936 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Blanchard-Glengary census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83822. It lies near Kelly Island. The Survey maps it on the Newport quadrangle. 221 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,123 feet above sea level.

Oldtown within Bonner County

Population over time

2 figures

Oldtown grew from 184 to 221 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010184
2020221+37 (+20%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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

153 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 153 fires within 5 miles of Oldtown between 1992 and 2020, burning about 141 acres in total. 29 started naturally. 6 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.

Reported cause Fires
Debris and open burning41
Natural29
Missing data/not specified/undetermined24
Recreation and ceremony22
Equipment and vehicle use8
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Arson/incendiarism6
Smoking4
Fireworks4
Other causes3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Railroad operations and maintenance2

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 2006Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
8 September 1994Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
7 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersSPRING VALLEY
6 September 2001Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
5 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColville National ForestPIONEER PARK CAMPGROUND
5 September 2002Naturalunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
4 September 1998Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
29 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersGRAY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bonner County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 33 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 33 workings within 5 miles of Oldtown: 20 past producers, 9 prospects, 3 occurrences, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Lead, Silver, Copper. 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
Bodie Canyon MineSilver, Zinc, Molybdenum, CopperProspect
Bodie Canyon ProspectSilver, Molybdenum, CopperOccurrenceVein
General McarthurLead, Zinc, Silver, Gold, CopperProspect
Grandview GroupLead, Copper, Gold, SilverPast Producer
RiesLead, Silver, Gold, CopperOccurrence
RiesGemstoneOccurrence
Ries PropertyLead, Silver, Gold, CopperPast ProducerChalcopyrite, Galena, Pyrite
Silver Butte MineSilver, Lead, CopperPast Producer
Freeman LakeSilicaProspect
Freeman Lake Silica MineSilicaPast ProducerVein

Every working recorded in Bonner County

Storms near this place

5 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Oldtown in 5 storm reports between 1997 and 2013: 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 lightning. The reports record 2 injuries. 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 2002LightningOldtown2 hurtTwo workers were installing siding on a garden shed when lightning struck a nearby tree, arcing from the tree to the shed and the workers. Both men were briefly hospitalized.
May 1997Thunderstorm WindOldtown$10,000numerous reports of wind damage
August 2013Thunderstorm WindOldtown$500A large tree was knocked onto power lines resulting in 41 power outages in Oldtown, ID. The storm also downed numerous trees across the Priest Lake Ranger District of western Bonner County. An incident management team was put together to quickly assess and manage hazards discovered in developed campgrounds and recreation sites throughout the national forest given the approaching Labor Day holiday. Based on the incident map, Navigation, Trapper, Geisinger, Plowboy, and Beaver Creek were among the sites that required hazardous tree removal.
June 1998HailOldtown-1 inch diameter hail
June 2003HailOldtown-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Bonner 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
Priest River6.8 miles16
Four Corners8.0 miles17
Thama10.2 miles16
Blanchard11.5 miles17
Edgemere13.8 miles17
Coleman13.9 miles17
Vay14.5 miles17
Riverside (historical)14.9 miles16

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.

Wikipedia article on OldtownAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1511212The 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 396981. 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.