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Pierce, Idaho

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1924 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Pierce-Headquarters census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83546. It lies near Canal Gulch. The Survey maps it on the Pierce quadrangle. 467 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,094 feet above sea level.

Pierce within Clearwater County

On record in Pierce

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 1 record

Population over time

2 figures

Pierce fell from 508 to 467 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
2010508
2020467-41 (-8%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

88 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 88 fires within 5 miles of Pierce between 1992 and 2020, burning about 53 acres in total. 54 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
Natural54
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Fireworks5
Equipment and vehicle use4
Recreation and ceremony4
Smoking4
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Arson/incendiarism1
Debris and open burning1

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
7 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreClearwater Potlatch Timber Protective AssociationCANAL POWERLINE
7 September 1998Naturalunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsFRENCH WEST
5 September 2019Fireworksunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsBOTTOM DIVIDE
26 September 1994Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsPIERCE POWER LINE
25 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsMCCAULY CREEK
2 September 2019Fireworksunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsWEST DIVIDE
2 September 2019Fireworksunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsNORTH DIVIDE
2 September 2006Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsPORTERS CAMP

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clearwater County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 28 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 28 workings within 5 miles of Pierce: 14 past producers, 10 unknowns, 3 occurrences, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Beryllium, Silver, Phosphorus-Phosphates. 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
Black Diamond Graphite ProspectGraphiteOccurrence
Musselshell PitPhosphorus-PhosphatesUnknown
Pierce City DistrictGold, Mercury, Titanium, Iron, PlatinumProducer1860
American PlacerGold, SilverPast Producer
Woodchuck PlacerGold, SilverPast Producer
New OccurrenceBerylliumUnknown
Pierce Divide OccurrenceBerylliumOccurrenceBeryl
Placer Creek Beryl OccurrenceBerylliumOccurrenceVein
Armstrong Gulch PlacerGoldPast ProducerPlacer
Boggs Gulch PlacersGoldUnknown

Every working recorded in Clearwater County

Storms near this place

5 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pierce in 5 storm reports between 2003 and 2019: 2 heavy rain, 2 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
July 2019HailPierce-The Spot Mountain Lookout in the Bitterroot National Forest reported quarter-size hail during the morning hours of July 3rd, as a line of thunderstorms moved through the area.
April 2012HailPierce-A trained spotter estimated 1.25 inch diameter hail.
October 2011Heavy RainPierce-The equipment at Pierce reported 0.84 inches of rain in 24 hours.
October 2011Heavy RainPierce-Equipment at Pierce reported 0.81 inches of rainfall and Pierce USFS ranger station reported 0.70 inch.
May 2003Thunderstorm WindPierce-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Clearwater 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
Oro Fino (historical)0.6 miles10
Judge Town1.1 miles10
Cardiff Mill1.4 miles10
Jaype3.2 miles14
Hollywood4.9 miles14
Poorman4.9 miles14
Cardiff5.8 miles14
Haley6.7 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.

Wikipedia article on PierceAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1517751The 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 397030. 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.