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.
Population over time
2 figuresSmelterville 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 627 | |
| 2020 | 670 | +43 (+7%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 14 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1909 USGS Cataldo quadrangle1:125000
- 1911 USGS Cataldo quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Spokane quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Kellogg quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Spokane quadrangle1:250000
- 1985 USGS Kellogg West quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1987 USGS Coeur D'Alene quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
- 1996 USGS Kellogg West quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
112 since 1992Regional 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 41 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 23 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 19 |
| Debris and open burning | 13 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 6 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| Other causes | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 1993 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Idaho Department of Lands | WET HAT |
| 30 September 2014 | Natural | under an acre | Idaho Department of Lands | HAZENDORF |
| 28 September 1994 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Idaho Department of Lands | BURNING RUBBER |
| 25 September 1993 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Idaho Department of Lands | LYNCH GULCH |
| 22 September 1995 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Idaho Department of Lands | PAGE |
| 21 September 1993 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Idaho Department of Lands | BEAR CR MILL |
| 17 September 1998 | Natural | under an acre | Idaho Department of Lands | E FORK FRENCH GULCH |
| 17 September 1998 | Natural | under an acre | Idaho Department of Lands | BEAR CREEK |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
10 of 106 shownRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alhambra Mine | Zinc, Lead, Silver | Past Producer | Vein | |
| Amy-Matchlees Mine | Silver, Lead, Gold, Copper, Zinc | Past Producer | ||
| Benewah-Shoshone Deposit | Iron | Occurrence | ||
| Big Eight Prospect | Silver, Zinc, Lead, Antimony, Gold, Copper | Prospect | Vein | |
| Black Hawk Mine | Zinc, Lead, Gold, Silver | Past Producer | Vein | |
| Bobby Anderson Mine | Silver, Copper, Zinc, Lead, Gold | Past Producer | ||
| Bunker Hill Mine | Lead, Zinc, Silver, Copper, Gold, Uranium, Antimony, Cadmium, Cobalt | Past Producer | 1885, 1886, 1991 | |
| Carbonate | Zinc, Lead, Gold, Copper, Silver | Producer | Vein | |
| Crescent Mine | Silver, Antimony, Copper, Lead, Zinc, Gold | Past Producer | 1886, 1906, 1986 | |
| Crown Point Mine | Silver, Lead, Gold | Past Producer |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sweeney | 0.7 miles | 14 | |
| Bradley | 1.1 miles | 19 | |
| Smelter Heights | 1.2 miles | 19 | |
| Page | 1.4 miles | 14 | |
| Pine Creek | 2.2 miles | 14 | |
| Wardner | 2.9 miles | 19 | |
| Pinehurst | 3.0 miles | 14 | |
| Kellogg | 3.3 miles | 19 |
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 Smelterville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1518213 | The 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.







