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Pine Creek, Idaho

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Kellogg census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83850. It stands on Pine Creek. The Survey maps it on the Kellogg West quadrangle.

Pine Creek within Shoshone County

On record in Pine Creek

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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

124 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 124 fires within 5 miles of Pine Creek between 1992 and 2020, burning about 654 acres in total. 41 started naturally. 5 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
Natural41
Recreation and ceremony22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined21
Debris and open burning20
Equipment and vehicle use6
Arson/incendiarism5
Smoking3
Fireworks3
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
9 September 1993Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsWET HAT
8 September 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsWALL 23
30 September 2014Naturalunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsHAZENDORF
3 September 2020Fireworksunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsMILE POST 41
28 September 1994Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsBURNING RUBBER
25 September 1993Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsLYNCH GULCH
22 September 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsPAGE
21 September 1993Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsBEAR CR MILL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Shoshone County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 97 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 97 workings within 5 miles of Pine Creek: 40 past producers, 18 occurrences, 18 prospects, 15 producers. 16 still produce. What was taken out: Lead, Zinc, Lead, Zinc, Gold. 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
Amy-Matchlees MineSilver, Lead, Gold, Copper, ZincPast Producer
Big Eight ProspectSilver, Zinc, Lead, Antimony, Gold, CopperProspectVein
Black Hawk MineZinc, Lead, Gold, SilverPast ProducerVein
Bluebird ProspectZinc, Lead, AntimonyOccurrence1914
Bobby Anderson MineSilver, Copper, Zinc, Lead, GoldPast Producer
Bunker Hill MineLead, Zinc, Silver, Copper, Gold, Uranium, Antimony, Cadmium, CobaltPast Producer1885, 1886, 1991
CarbonateZinc, Lead, Gold, Copper, SilverProducerVein
Crown Point MineSilver, Lead, GoldPast Producer
Denver MineLead, Zinc, Silver, CopperProspect
East Page ProjectLead, Zinc, Copper, SilverProducerChalcopyrite, Galena, Sphalerite, Tetrahedrite

Every working recorded in Shoshone County

Storms near this place

1 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pine Creek in 1 storm report in 1996: 1 flood. 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
April 1996FloodPine Creek-no account filed

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
Pinehurst1.0 miles14
Page1.5 miles14
Enaville1.8 miles14
Smelterville2.2 miles14
Kingston2.6 miles14
Sweeney2.9 miles14
Bradley3.3 miles19
Smelter Heights3.4 miles19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 397033. 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.