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Quartzburg, Idaho

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Horseshoe Bend census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83666. It lies near Confederate Gulch. The Survey maps it on the Placerville quadrangle.

Quartzburg within Boise County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 20 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

83 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 83 fires within 5 miles of Quartzburg between 1992 and 2020, burning about 525 acres in total. 63 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
Natural63
Recreation and ceremony8
Debris and open burning5
Equipment and vehicle use3
Arson/incendiarism2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
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 2012Naturalunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsWEST FORK
9 September 1999Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresBoise National ForestTOWN FIRE
9 September 1997Naturalunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsIOWA MINE ROAD
7 September 2001Naturalunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsOPHIR CREEK
7 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreBoise National ForestOLD HAHN
6 September 2006Natural3.0 acresBoise National ForestGRANITE
4 September 1995Naturalunder an acreBoise National ForestTRAIL CREEK
24 September 2011Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreBoise National ForestHARRIS CREEK SUMMIT

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Boise County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 67 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 67 workings within 5 miles of Quartzburg: 34 past producers, 19 occurrences, 5 producers, 5 unknowns. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Zinc, Silver, Lead, Silver, Lead, Copper, 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
Alder Creek & West ForkThorium, Gold, Zirconium, Niobium (Columbium)Past Producer
BelshazzarGold, Silver, Lead, CopperPast Producer
Blue RockGold, Zinc, Lead, Silver, CopperPast Producer
Blue Rock DepositLead, Zinc, Copper, Gold, SilverOccurrenceGalena, Sphalerite, Tetrahedrite
Blue Rock DepositLead, Copper, Zinc, Gold, SilverUnknown
Blue Rock GroupLead, Zinc, Silver, GoldOccurrenceVein
Boise BasinREE, GoldUnknown
Buckskin Group ProspectGold, Silver, Lead, Copper, Zinc, VanadiumOccurrenceBismuth, Chalcopyrite, Galena, Sphalerite, Stibnite
Buckskin MineSilver, Zinc, Lead, CopperPast Producer
Canyon Creek MineZinc, LeadOccurrence1937

Every working 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
Granite1.8 miles20
Placerville2.5 miles20
Star Ranch Summer Home Area3.5 miles20
Centerville6.1 miles20
New Centerville6.9 miles20
Pioneerville7.5 miles19
Grimes Pass9.0 miles13
Garden Valley9.1 miles14

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 QuartzburgAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22058991The 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 397074. 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.