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Slickpoo, Idaho

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Winchester census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83524. It lies near Hamilton Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Culdesac South quadrangle. It stands 1,749 feet above sea level.

Slickpoo within Lewis County

On record in Slickpoo

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

67 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 67 fires within 5 miles of Slickpoo between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,255 acres in total. 19 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
Natural19
Debris and open burning12
Equipment and vehicle use12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Fireworks5
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Smoking3
Arson/incendiarism2
Firearms and explosives use1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
7 September 1998Naturalunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsROCK CREEK
4 September 2013Naturalunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsLAPWAI
29 September 2016Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresNez Perce TribeTRACK FIRE
29 September 2016Railroad operations and maintenance2.0 acresNez Perce TribeTRACK FIRE #2
25 September 2015Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresNez Perce TribePRIME
20 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNez Perce TribeROCKCREEK
20 September 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsMISSION CREEK
18 September 1995Debris and open burning1.0 acresNez Perce TribeLOEFIRE

Every fire recorded in Lewis County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Slickpoo: 2 past producers, 2 unknowns, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, Dimension, Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Marble, Dimension, 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Mill Creek Limestone DepositLimestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Marble, DimensionPast ProducerMetamorphic
Mission Creek LimestoneLimestone, Ultra PurePast Producer1942
Jacques SpurLimestone, DimensionUnknown
Nez Perce Limestone QuarryLimestone, DimensionUnknown

Every working recorded in Lewis County

Storms near this place

3 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Slickpoo in 3 storm reports between 2010 and 2012: 1 heavy rain, 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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
June 2010Heavy RainSlickpoo$16,000Road damage from heavy rain was observed on Roberts, Sandhill, Wilsey, Tiede, Woodlawn, and Mission Creek roads.
June 2012HailSlickpoo-no account filed
July 2012Thunderstorm WindSlickpoo-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lewis 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
Woodside (historical)6.6 miles9
Winchester7.0 miles8
Kippen8.6 miles9
Reubens8.9 miles9
Clicks9.7 miles9
Craig Junction9.8 miles9
Forest12.0 miles7
Ilo (historical)12.5 miles8

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 SlickpooAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7540281The 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 398140. 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.