BlockBefore

Smelterville, Idaho

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1909 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Kellogg census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83868. It lies near Government Gulch. The Survey maps it on the Kellogg West quadrangle. 670 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,234 feet above sea level.

Smelterville within Shoshone County

Population over time

2 figures

Smelterville grew from 627 to 670 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010627
2020670+43 (+7%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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

112 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 112 fires within 5 miles of Smelterville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 259 acres in total. 41 started naturally. 6 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
Natural41
Recreation and ceremony23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined19
Debris and open burning13
Arson/incendiarism6
Smoking3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Fireworks1
Other causes1
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
9 September 1993Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsWET HAT
30 September 2014Naturalunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsHAZENDORF
28 September 1994Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsBURNING RUBBER
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 LandsE FORK FRENCH GULCH
17 September 1998Naturalunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsBEAR CREEK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Shoshone County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 106 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 106 workings within 5 miles of Smelterville: 45 past producers, 20 occurrences, 18 prospects, 17 producers. 18 still produce. What was taken out: Lead, Zinc, Lead, Silver, Zinc. 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 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
Crescent MineSilver, Antimony, Copper, Lead, Zinc, GoldPast Producer1886, 1906, 1986
Crown Point MineSilver, Lead, GoldPast 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
Sweeney0.7 miles14
Bradley1.1 miles19
Smelter Heights1.2 miles19
Page1.4 miles14
Pine Creek2.2 miles14
Wardner2.9 miles19
Pinehurst3.0 miles14
Kellogg3.3 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.

Wikipedia article on SmeltervilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1518213The 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 398144. 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.