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Silverton, Idaho

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Osburn-Wallace census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83867. It lies near Revenue Gulch. The Survey maps it on the Wallace quadrangle. 594 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,648 feet above sea level.

Silverton within Shoshone County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 17 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

81 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 81 fires within 5 miles of Silverton between 1992 and 2020, burning about 39 acres in total. 46 started naturally. 1 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
Natural46
Recreation and ceremony13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Fireworks2
Debris and open burning2
Smoking1
Arson/incendiarism1

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 2006Naturalunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsLOST LAKE
7 September 1995Naturalunder an acreCoeur d'Alene Field OfficeROCK CREEK
6 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIdaho Panhandle National ForestDUDLEY
6 September 1995Naturalunder an acreIdaho Panhandle National ForestBAD TOM
5 September 2013Naturalunder an acreIdaho Panhandle National ForestDUDLEY
26 September 2020Fireworksunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsMOUNT PULASKI
2 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.2 acresIdaho Department of LandsNUCKOLS GULCH
2 September 1994Naturalunder an acreCoeur d'Alene Field OfficeREVENUEGUL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Shoshone County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 159 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 159 workings within 5 miles of Silverton: 52 past producers, 44 occurrences, 33 prospects, 21 producers. 22 still produce. What was taken out: Silver, Lead, Silver, Lead, Zinc, Lead. 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
(Facility) Sunshine Antimony RefineryAntimonyPlant
ArgentineSilver, Lead, Gold, CopperPast Producer
Caladay MineSilver, Copper, Zinc, LeadOccurrence
Caladay MineSilver, Copper, GoldProducer1969
California MineSilver, Lead, Gold, CopperPast Producer1885, 1902
Capital Silver ProspectSilver, Zinc, Lead, CopperOccurrenceVein
Castle Rock MineCopper, Gold, SilverPast Producer
Chester MineSilver, Lead, CopperPast Producer
Coeur D'Alene DistrictGold, Zinc, Antimony, Lead, Silver, Copper, CadmiumProducer1878, 1884
Coeur D'Alene MinesCopper, Silver, Lead, Gold, Uranium, CobaltProducerVein

Every working recorded in Shoshone 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
Wallace2.0 miles17
Nuckols2.0 miles18
McCarthy2.4 miles17
Osburn2.5 miles18
Blackcloud2.8 miles18
Woodland Park2.9 miles17
Bunn3.2 miles18
Webb3.4 miles17

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 SilvertonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7516836The 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 398133. 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.