Silver City, Idaho

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

• Silver City Historic Districtlisted 1972
• Camp Three Forkslisted 1972
• Delamar Historic Districtlisted 1976

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.

• 1892 USGS Silver City quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
• 1894 USGS Silver City quadrangle1:125000
• 1898 USGS Silver City quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
• 1955 USGS Boise quadrangle1:250000
• 1958 USGS Boise quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1962 USGS Boise quadrangle1:250000
• 1965 USGS Silver City quadrangle1:62500
• 1986 USGS Murphy quadrangle1:100000
• 1990 USGS Silver City quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Silver City between 1992 and 2015, burning about 120 acres in total. 6 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.

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

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Telegraph Hill
• Dewey
• Empire City (historical)
• De Lamar
• Bruneau
• Democrat

Every fire recorded in Owyhee County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 117 workings within 5 miles of Silver City: 93 past producers, 10 unknowns, 7 occurrences, 5 prospects. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Silver, Gold, Gold, Silver. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Owyhee County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 398130. 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.