Red River Hot Springs, Idaho

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Elk City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83525. It stands on Bridge Creek. The Survey maps it on the Sable Hill quadrangle.

Red River Hot Springs within Idaho County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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.

1956 USGS Elk City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1960 USGS Elk City quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1966 USGS Sable Hill quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Elk City quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1995 USGS Sable Hill quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

94 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 94 fires within 5 miles of Red River Hot Springs between 1992 and 2020, burning about 21,070 acres in total. 90 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
Natural	90
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Debris and open burning	1
Recreation and ceremony	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
9 September 1999	Natural	under an acre	Nez Perce - Clearwater National Forests	541
9 September 1999	Natural	1.5 acres	Nez Perce - Clearwater National Forests	BUTTER
5 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Nez Perce - Clearwater National Forests	BLACKHAWK
3 September 2006	Natural	7,200 acres	Nez Perce - Clearwater National Forests	MEADOW
23 September 1999	Natural	under an acre	Nez Perce - Clearwater National Forests	GRANITE SPRINGS
2 September 2017	Natural	78 acres	Nez Perce - Clearwater National Forests	PRONGHORN
16 September 2007	Natural	under an acre	Nez Perce - Clearwater National Forests	BUTTER
14 September 2013	Natural	under an acre	Nez Perce - Clearwater National Forests	BUTTER

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Idaho County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Red River Hot Springs: 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Copper, Zinc, Silver, Gold, Geothermal. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Alberta Prospect	Copper, Zinc, Silver, Gold	Occurrence	Vein
	Red River Hot Spring	Geothermal	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Idaho 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Lightfoot	9.8 miles	10
Gold Point	10.3 miles	11
Leprouse	10.5 miles	10
Gibler	10.6 miles	10
Elk City	12.8 miles	11
York	17.0 miles	10
Orogrande	19.1 miles	12
Mud Springs	21.1 miles	14

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.

Wikidata item Q122568757

The 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 398037. 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.