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Ramsdell, Idaho

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the St. Maries census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83861. It stands on Benewah Creek. The Survey maps it on the Benewah Lake quadrangle.

Ramsdell within Benewah County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

87 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 87 fires within 5 miles of Ramsdell between 1992 and 2020, burning about 885 acres in total. 21 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
Debris and open burning28
Natural21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined19
Equipment and vehicle use13
Arson/incendiarism2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Recreation and ceremony1
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 2012Natural10 acresNorthern Idaho AgencyUPPER ECHO
9 September 2012Naturalunder an acreNorthern Idaho AgencyCASSANDRA HILLS
7 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined23 acresSt. Joe Area OfficeCLIFF
5 September 2013Naturalunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsBLAKE CREEK
29 September 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsROCKY
25 September 2002Debris and open burning20 acresNorthern Idaho AgencySKIPS
2 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsLOG YARD
2 September 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsP LINE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Benewah County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Ramsdell: 4 occurrences, 3 unknowns, 2 producers, 1 prospect. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay, Fire Clay (Refractory), Peat. 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
Chatcolet Lake Clay OccurrenceFire Clay (Refractory)OccurrenceClay
Dement PitStoneProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Round Lake Peat OccurrencePeatOccurrencePeat
St. Maries Clay OccurrenceKaolinOccurrence
Benewah Clay DepositClayProspectClay
Benewah Lake Clay OccurrenceClayOccurrenceClay
Stone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown
Stone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown
Stone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown

Every working recorded in Benewah County

Storms near this place

4 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ramsdell in 4 storm reports between 2012 and 2018: 3 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 2017FloodRamsdell$400,000The St. Joe River Gage at St. Maries recorded a rise above the Flood Stage of 32.5 feet at 6:15 AM PST on March 15th. The river continued to rise through the Moderate Flood Stage by March 16th and passed through the Major Flood Stage of 38.0 feet at 9:15 AM March 19th. The river crested at 10:45 PM on March 19th at 39.2 feet. The river receded to below Major Flood Stage at 11:30 PM March 24th and dropped through the Moderate Flood Stage by the morning of March 25th. The river remained in Minor Flood through the end of March and into April.
April 2017FloodRamsdell$100,000The USGS St. Joe River Gage at St. Maries recorded a Minor Flood on the St. Joe River during the first week of April. The river receded to below the Flood Stage of 32.5 feet at 6:15 AM PST on April 5th and continued to fall through the rest of the month.
May 2018FloodRamsdell$5,000The USGS River Gage on the St. Joe River at St. Maries recorded a rise above the Flood Stage of 32.5 feet at 2:15 PM PST on May 7th. The river crested at the Minor Flood level of 33.9 feet at 6:00 PM PST May 10th and remained at that level until beginning to recede on May 11th. The river receded below Flood Stage at 10:45 AM PST on May 19th.
July 2012HailRamsdell-Hail sizes were generally between pea to dime but a few nickel to quarter size hailstones were observed.

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
Silvertip Landing1.1 miles9
Parkline1.1 miles9
Rocky Point3.7 miles9
Chat'u'washa'lqs Bluff4.1 miles10
Chatcolet4.8 miles9
Hawleys Landing4.8 miles9
Pedee5.2 miles9
Meadowhurst6.5 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 397081. 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.