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Rathdrum, Idaho

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Post Falls-Rathdrum census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83858. It stands on Rathdrum Creek. The Survey maps it on the Rathdrum quadrangle. 9,211 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,211 feet above sea level.

Rathdrum within Kootenai County

On record in Rathdrum

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 3 records

Population over time

2 figures

Rathdrum grew from 6,826 to 9,211 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
20106,826
20209,211+2,385 (+35%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 16 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

112 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 112 fires within 5 miles of Rathdrum between 1992 and 2019, burning about 186 acres in total. 29 started naturally. 6 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
Natural29
Debris and open burning23
Recreation and ceremony20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Equipment and vehicle use6
Arson/incendiarism6
Smoking3
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
4 September 2007Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresIdaho Department of LandsFLATS
4 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsSCARCELLO
4 September 1995Naturalunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsWATERSHED
3 September 2017Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresIdaho Department of LandsALTAMONT ROAD
29 September 2003Debris and open burning3.0 acresIdaho Department of LandsBURLINGTON
24 September 1999Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsSCENIC LODGE 21
22 September 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsNORTH CIRCLE
20 September 1995Debris and open burning2.0 acresIdaho Department of LandsWILKINSON RD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kootenai 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 Rathdrum: 7 producers, 2 unknowns, 1 past producer. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
Powder Horn PitStoneProducer
Fuller PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Kootenai County

Storms near this place

5 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rathdrum in 5 storm reports between 1997 and 2019: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud. The reports record 2 injuries. 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
May 2002Thunderstorm WindRathdrum2 hurt, $15,000Thunderstorm winds blew a tree onto two cars traveling in opposite directions along Idaho Highway 41 in Rathdrum. Two of the occupants of one vehicle suffered injuries requiring hospitalization.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindRathdrum$27,000no account filed
March 2014Thunderstorm WindRathdrum$500Half of a tree in Rathdrum City Park blew over from strong winds behind a squall line.
September 2019Funnel CloudRathdrum-A brief Funnel Cloud was reported by the public to local broadcast media near Rathdrum. Time estimated from radar data.
May 1997Thunderstorm WindRathdrum-60 mph gust

Every storm recorded in Kootenai 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
Haycrop3.2 miles16
Sturgeon3.2 miles15
Coeur d'Alene Junction3.9 miles16
Excelsior Beach4.8 miles16
Howelltown4.8 miles16
Twinlow5.0 miles16
Echo Beach5.3 miles16
Silver Sands Beach5.5 miles16

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 RathdrumAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1516471The 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 398027. 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.