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Smelter Heights, Idaho

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Kellogg census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83837. It lies near Deadwood Gulch. The Survey maps it on the Kellogg West quadrangle.

Smelter Heights within Shoshone County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 19 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

101 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 101 fires within 5 miles of Smelter Heights between 1992 and 2020, burning about 232 acres in total. 43 started naturally. 3 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
Natural43
Recreation and ceremony19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Debris and open burning11
Smoking3
Arson/incendiarism3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Other causes1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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 1993Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsWET HAT
28 September 1994Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsBURNING RUBBER
25 September 2001Naturalunder an acreCoeur d'Alene Field OfficeMONTGOMERY GULCH
25 September 1993Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsLYNCH GULCH
22 September 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsPAGE
21 September 1993Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsBEAR CR MILL
17 September 1998Naturalunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsBEAR CREEK
16 September 2001Natural1.0 acresIdaho Department of LandsFUBAR 2

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Shoshone County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 123 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 123 workings within 5 miles of Smelter Heights: 48 past producers, 24 prospects, 23 occurrences, 20 producers. 21 still produce. What was taken out: Lead, Silver, Zinc, Lead, Copper. 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
Alhambra MineZinc, Lead, SilverPast ProducerVein
Amy-Matchlees MineSilver, Lead, Gold, Copper, ZincPast Producer
Benewah-Shoshone DepositIronOccurrence
Big Creek Apex MineSilver, Copper, Lead, AntimonyProducerVein
Big Eight ProspectSilver, Zinc, Lead, Antimony, Gold, CopperProspectVein
Black Hawk MineZinc, Lead, Gold, SilverPast ProducerVein
Bobby Anderson MineSilver, Copper, Zinc, Lead, GoldPast Producer
Bunker Hill MineLead, Zinc, Silver, Copper, Gold, Uranium, Antimony, Cadmium, CobaltPast Producer1885, 1886, 1991
CarbonateZinc, Lead, Gold, Copper, SilverProducerVein
Coeur D'Alene Big CreekSilver, Copper, Gold, Lead, ZincPast Producer

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
Bradley0.5 miles19
Sweeney0.5 miles14
Smelterville1.2 miles14
Wardner1.8 miles19
Kellogg2.1 miles19
Page2.4 miles14
Pine Creek3.4 miles14
Elizabeth Park3.6 miles19

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 Q122551346The 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 398143. 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.