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Osburn, Idaho

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Osburn-Wallace census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83849. It stands on Twomile Creek. The Survey maps it on the Osburn quadrangle. 1,567 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,526 feet above sea level.

Osburn within Shoshone County

Population over time

2 figures

Osburn grew from 1,555 to 1,567 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
20101,555
20201,567+12 (+1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 18 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

82 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 82 fires within 5 miles of Osburn between 1992 and 2020, burning about 127 acres in total. 49 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
Natural49
Recreation and ceremony13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Debris and open burning2
Smoking1
Fireworks1
Arson/incendiarism1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
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 2006Naturalunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsLOST LAKE
6 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIdaho Panhandle National ForestDUDLEY
6 September 1998Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreIdaho Panhandle National ForestFISH DECK
5 September 2013Naturalunder an acreIdaho Panhandle National ForestDUDLEY
26 September 2020Fireworksunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsMOUNT PULASKI
25 September 2001Naturalunder an acreCoeur d'Alene Field OfficeMONTGOMERY GULCH
2 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.2 acresIdaho Department of LandsNUCKOLS GULCH
2 September 1994Naturalunder an acreCoeur d'Alene Field OfficeREVENUEGUL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Shoshone County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 160 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 160 workings within 5 miles of Osburn: 46 past producers, 45 occurrences, 35 prospects, 23 producers. 24 still produce. What was taken out: Silver, Lead, Silver, Lead, Lead, 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
(Facility) Sunshine Antimony RefineryAntimonyPlant
ArgentineSilver, Lead, Gold, CopperPast Producer
Benewah-Shoshone DepositIronOccurrence
Big Creek Apex MineSilver, Copper, Lead, AntimonyProducerVein
Bismark ProspectSilver, SulfidesProspectVein
Caladay MineSilver, Copper, Zinc, LeadOccurrence
Caladay MineSilver, Copper, GoldProducer1969
California MineSilver, Lead, Gold, CopperPast Producer1885, 1902
Capital Silver ProspectSilver, Zinc, Lead, CopperOccurrenceVein
Castle Rock MineCopper, Gold, SilverPast Producer

Every working recorded in Shoshone County

Storms near this place

4 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Osburn in 4 storm reports between 2001 and 2024: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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
December 2011Thunderstorm WindOsburn$198,000Strong wind gusts knocked down at least four large trees in the town of Osburn, Idaho. The toppled trees caused extensive damage to a motor home, car, storage shed, car port, and patio cover. One tree clipped a house resulting in minor damage. Two roofs were completely blown off from primary residences and several other roofs were damaged. Several power poles and power-lines were damaged. The Nuckols RAWS, located at 4000 feet just outside the town of Osburn, measured sustained winds of 31 mph with gusts to 60 mph.
May 2002Thunderstorm WindOsburn$10,000Downed trees and power lines were reported. One resident reported windows broken out of his home. Trees were blown down across roadways in some rural parts of Shoshone County.
June 2001Thunderstorm WindOsburn$5,000Large trees and power lines were blown down.
September 2024LightningOsburn$1,000Tree was struck by lightning. Tree split into two with one side falling on to the fence and house.

Every storm recorded in Shoshone 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
Silverton2.5 miles17
Nuckols3.4 miles18
Elk Creek3.6 miles19
Wallace4.4 miles17
McCarthy4.8 miles17
Blackcloud5.0 miles18
Elizabeth Park5.2 miles19
Bunn5.3 miles18

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 OsburnAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1518061The 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 396990. 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.