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Pioneerville, Idaho

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Garden Valley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83622. It stands on Smith Creek. The Survey maps it on the Pioneerville quadrangle.

Pioneerville within Boise County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 19 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

121 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 121 fires within 5 miles of Pioneerville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 189,680 acres in total. 97 started naturally. 2 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
Natural97
Recreation and ceremony10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Equipment and vehicle use4
Arson/incendiarism2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
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
9 September 1999Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresBoise National ForestTOWN FIRE
9 September 1997Naturalunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsSWEDE CREEK
7 September 2019Naturalunder an acreBoise National ForestROCKY
7 September 2001Naturalunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsOPHIR CREEK
6 September 2001Naturalunder an acreBoise National ForestSWEDE CREEK
6 September 1999Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreBoise National ForestTOWN CREEK
5 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresBoise National ForestTOWN CREEK 2
4 September 1999Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresIdaho Department of LandsTOWN CREEK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Boise County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 104 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 104 workings within 5 miles of Pioneerville: 55 past producers, 21 occurrences, 18 unknowns, 6 producers. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Silver, Lead, Copper, Zinc, Lead, Zinc. 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
Ader GroupCopper, Zinc, Lead, GoldOccurrenceVein
Ballinger VeinGold, Silver, Copper, ZincUnknown
Bruser MineGold, Zinc, Lead, SilverPast ProducerChalcopyrite, Galena, Gold, Sphalerite, Tetrahedrite
Buckskin Group ProspectGold, Silver, Lead, Copper, Zinc, VanadiumOccurrenceBismuth, Chalcopyrite, Galena, Sphalerite, Stibnite
Buckskin MineLead, Silver, Bismuth, Vanadium, ZincOccurrence
Buckskin MineSilver, Zinc, Lead, CopperPast Producer
Bummer Mill DiggingsGold, REE, MolybdenumUnknown
Columbite MineREE, Uranium, Niobium (Columbium), TantalumProducerColumbite, Monazite
Comeback MineSilver, Zinc, Lead, Gold, CopperPast Producer1920, 1928
Comeback MineGold, Silver, Copper, Lead, ZincPast Producer

Every working recorded in Boise County

Storms near this place

2 since 2023

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pioneerville in 2 storm reports in 2023: 2 heavy rain. 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
March 2023Heavy RainPioneerville-The mesonet station MRKI1 10.6 miles south of Lowman, ID reported 1.20 inches of heavy rain.
June 2023Heavy RainPioneerville-The mesonet station, LLFI1, measured 0.68 inches of heavy rain at the NRAWS 18 site.

Every storm recorded in Boise 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
Centerville4.6 miles20
Grimes Pass5.3 miles13
Placerville5.6 miles20
Granite6.7 miles20
New Centerville6.9 miles20
Washington Mill7.1 miles19
Star Ranch Summer Home Area7.5 miles20
Quartzburg7.5 miles20

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 PioneervilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q28869260The 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 397042. 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.