Slate Creek, Idaho

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Riggins census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83554. It stands on Slate Creek. The Survey maps it on the Slate Creek quadrangle.

Slate Creek within Idaho County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 11 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.

1955 USGS Grangeville quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1959 USGS Grangeville quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1963 USGS Slate Creek quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1980 USGS Grangeville quadrangle1:100000
1995 USGS Slate Creek quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

69 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 69 fires within 5 miles of Slate Creek between 1992 and 2019, burning about 1,006 acres in total. 33 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
Natural	33
Equipment and vehicle use	11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10
Debris and open burning	6
Fireworks	3
Arson/incendiarism	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Other causes	1
Recreation and ceremony	1
Smoking	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
6 September 2019	Natural	30 acres	Nez Perce - Clearwater National Forests	SHERWIN BAR
6 September 2019	Natural	under an acre	Nez Perce - Clearwater National Forests	GRAVES POINT
4 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Nez Perce - Clearwater National Forests	STALLION
30 September 2003	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Nez Perce - Clearwater National Forests	MYSTERY
23 September 1994	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Nez Perce - Clearwater National Forests	not named
17 September 2005	Debris and open burning	50 acres	Nez Perce - Clearwater National Forests	TWIN
17 September 2001	Natural	under an acre	Nez Perce - Clearwater National Forests	ARRISON
13 September 2009	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Nez Perce - Clearwater National Forests	POODLE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Idaho County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Slate Creek: 11 past producers, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Mica, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Salmon River Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Wagner Prospect	Mica	Occurrence
White Bird Pit	Stone	Past Producer
Large Bar Placer	Gold, Silver	Past Producer	Placer
Lower Sherwin Bar Placer	Gold, Silver	Past Producer	Placer
Upper Sherwin Bar Placer	Gold, Silver	Past Producer	Placer
Wild Cat Placer	Gold, Silver	Past Producer	Placer
Horseshoe Bar Placer	Gold	Past Producer	Placer
John Day Bar Placer	Gold	Past Producer	Placer
Roby Bar Placer	Gold	Past Producer	Placer

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
Taylor	6.4 miles	10
Lucile	7.3 miles	10
Copperville	8.3 miles	10
White Bird	8.6 miles	10
Shells Lick	9.4 miles	10
Canfield	14.6 miles	10
Riggins	15.0 miles	13
Joseph	15.2 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 398138. 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.