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Plummer, Idaho

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Plummer census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83851. The Survey maps it on the Plummer quadrangle. 1,015 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,743 feet above sea level.

Plummer within Benewah County

Population over time

2 figures

Plummer fell from 1,044 to 1,015 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
20101,044
20201,015-29 (-3%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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 Plummer between 1992 and 2020, burning about 398 acres in total. 17 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
Debris and open burning52
Natural17
Equipment and vehicle use13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Fireworks9
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Smoking6
Recreation and ceremony4
Arson/incendiarism3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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 2012Naturalunder an acreNorthern Idaho AgencyHIKE IN THE PARK
7 September 2000Debris and open burning2.5 acresNorthern Idaho AgencyAGENCY27
28 September 2009Debris and open burning1.0 acresNorthern Idaho AgencyAGENCY
27 September 2005Debris and open burning3.0 acresNorthern Idaho AgencyPLUMMER/FAIRFIELD
26 September 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsHIXSON
22 September 2004Debris and open burningunder an acreNorthern Idaho AgencyDUMP
19 September 2007Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreNorthern Idaho AgencyMAHONEY
19 September 2005Debris and open burning1.5 acresNorthern Idaho AgencyADRIAN #2

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Benewah County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Plummer: 3 past producers, 2 unknowns, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Dimension, Stone. 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
QuarryStoneOccurrence
Ellis PitStone, DimensionPast Producer
State Pit Bw 84 5Stone, DimensionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Plummer Pit and PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Benewah County

Storms near this place

3 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Plummer in 3 storm reports between 2014 and 2019: 2 flood, 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
March 2017FloodPlummer$500,000Snow melt and periodic heavy rain during the month of March produced numerous debris flows and areal flooding issues across Benewah County. Numerous roads were damaged by flooding. Most notably debris flows and rock slides closed the road between Plummer and St. Maries, and flooding severely damaged State Highway 5 near Round Lake. Benewah County was included in an Idaho State State of Emergency Declaration as a result of this episode.
August 2019HailPlummer-Hail, with up to 1 inch diameter stones, covered the ground to a depth of 6 inches near Plummer.
February 2014FloodPlummer-Several low lying areas experienced minor flooding. Sections of Lovell Valley Road near Plummer was covered in water in some sections.

Every storm recorded in Benewah 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
Plummer Junction1.1 miles9
Mowry6.0 miles8
Pedee6.1 miles9
Hawleys Landing6.6 miles9
Chatcolet7.1 miles9
Rocky Point7.7 miles9
Benewah9.2 miles9
Willard10.3 miles11

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 PlummerAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1516780The 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 374457. 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.