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Princeton, Idaho

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Potlatch census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83857. It stands on Lemman Creek. The Survey maps it on the Princeton quadrangle. 193 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,516 feet above sea level.

Princeton within Latah County

Population over time

2 figures

Princeton grew from 148 to 193 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
2010148
2020193+45 (+30%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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

19 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Princeton between 1994 and 2019, burning about 110 acres in total. 8 started naturally. None 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
Natural8
Debris and open burning6
Equipment and vehicle use3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
26 September 2018Debris and open burning56 acresIdaho Department of LandsGOLD HILL
2 September 1996Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsWEST GROUSE CREEK
15 September 2016Debris and open burning4.3 acresIdaho Department of LandsMAD HATTER
15 September 2006Recreation and ceremony7.5 acresIdaho Department of LandsEAST ROCK CREEK
13 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresIdaho Department of LandsHATTER CREEK
8 August 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsGOLD CREEK GRASS
6 August 2009Naturalunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsWEST GOLD
6 August 2003Naturalunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsGOLD HILL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Latah County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Princeton: 5 past producers, 4 occurrences, 1 producer, 1 unknown. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Beryllium, Mica, Clay. 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 Horse ProspectGold, CopperOccurrenceVein
Brickner MineClayPast Producer1903
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Mc Kinney ProspectBeryllium, MicaPast ProducerBeryl, Muscovite
Milbert ProspectIronOccurrenceMagnetite
Onaway MineKaolinPast Producer1902
Potlatch Clay DepositBrick ClayPast ProducerClay
Potlatch Corporation PitPhosphorus-PhosphatesUnknown
Camas Creek PlacerGoldPast Producer1870
Cassidy ProspectGoldOccurrence1870

Every working recorded in Latah County

Storms near this place

1 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Princeton in 1 storm report in 2011: 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
March 2011FloodPrinceton-North Latah County Road Department reported water over portions of Hatter Creek Road.

Every storm recorded in Latah 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
Hampton0.8 miles12
Chambers (historical)2.8 miles12
Onaway3.2 miles12
Potlatch3.4 miles12
Potlatch Junction5.4 miles12
Harvard5.5 miles12
Freeze6.6 miles12
Yale (historical)8.1 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 PrincetonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3921969The 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 397070. 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.