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Outlet Bay, Idaho

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Priest River census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83856. It stands on Lamb Creek. The Survey maps it on the Outlet Bay quadrangle. It stands 2,474 feet above sea level.

Outlet Bay within Bonner County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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

152 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 152 fires within 5 miles of Outlet Bay between 1992 and 2020, burning about 28 acres in total. 65 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.

Reported cause Fires
Natural65
Missing data/not specified/undetermined34
Recreation and ceremony19
Power generation/transmission/distribution8
Equipment and vehicle use7
Debris and open burning7
Smoking4
Arson/incendiarism3
Fireworks2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Other causes1

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 2004Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreIdaho Panhandle National ForestHOT LINE
8 September 1995Naturalunder an acreIdaho Panhandle National Forest639C
5 September 2011Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsCOOLIN BURBS
4 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsSHERWOOD POWERLINE
3 September 2005Naturalunder an acreIdaho Panhandle National ForestPOWERLINE
29 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsSTEAMBOAT BAY
27 September 2020Naturalunder an acrePriest Lake Area OfficeSHATTERED FIR
26 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIdaho Department of Lands255 FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bonner County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 16 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Outlet Bay: 7 occurrences, 6 past producers, 2 prospects, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold, Zinc, Lead, Silver, Copper, Molybdenum, Gold, Silver, Zinc, 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
Big Step ProspectGold, Zinc, Lead, Silver, Copper, MolybdenumOccurrence1950
Big Step ProspectGold, Zinc, Silver, MolybdenumProspect
Binarch Cr. GroupIronProspect
Binarch Cr. Mining Co. ProspectGold, Silver, Zinc, CopperOccurrenceVein
IdahoCopper, Silver, GoldOccurrence
Milwaukee MinesGold, Silver, ZincUnknown
Nevada Mines ProspectGold, Lead, Silver, ZincOccurrenceVein
Nevada Mines ProspectLead, Zinc, Silver, GoldOccurrence
New DiscoveryBerylliumOccurrence
Unnamed LocationUraniumOccurrence

Every working recorded in Bonner County

Storms near this place

3 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Outlet Bay in 3 storm reports between 2009 and 2014: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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
August 2014Thunderstorm WindOutlet Bay$2,000,000Widespread wind damage was observed across the cities of Priest Lake, Sandpoint, Ponderay, Kootenai, Oden, and Lake Pend Oreille. Hundreds of trees ranging from eight to twenty two inches in diameter were snapped or downed. Some trees landed on homes, others took out miles of power lines and poles. At one point after the storm, all of Sandpoint, Idaho was without power. A spotter in Clark Fork stated fifteen foot trees were almost touching the ground while sixty foot trees were bending at 45 degree angles. The most widespread damage was along the Highway 200 corridor between Hope and Sandpoint. The Elk Golf Course in this corridor lost thirteen trees. The Sandpoint AWOS, also in this area, measured sustained winds of 40 mph with gusts to 56 mph before the power outage. A roof of a storage shed was blown off in downtown Sandpoint. Numerous boats and docks on Lake Pend Oreille were damaged from waves that ranged between three to six feet. Significant tree damage was observed on the south side of the lake in Bottle Bay between the 3800th and 5016th blocks. All trees were leaning to the east southeast. Residents interviewed during a storm survey mentioned the winds lasted roughly 40 minutes.
July 2009Thunderstorm WindOutlet Bay-Multiple uprooted trees damaged at least three homes on Kalispell Bay of Priest Lake.
July 2009HailOutlet Bay-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
Lamb Creek2.4 miles12
Coolin2.5 miles16
Sherwood Beach2.8 miles16
Dickensheet Junction3.0 miles18
Vans Corner3.2 miles12
Nordman10.0 miles12
Four Corners15.1 miles17
Colburn20.1 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 Outlet BayAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7112155The 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 396993. 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.