Southwick, Idaho

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Leland census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83537. It lies near Potlatch Ridge. The Survey maps it on the Southwick quadrangle.

Southwick within Nez Perce County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 10 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 Pullman quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Pullman quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1961 USGS Ahsahka quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1981 USGS Potlatch quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1990 USGS Southwick quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

49 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 49 fires within 5 miles of Southwick between 1993 and 2020, burning about 204 acres in total. 25 started naturally. None was 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	25
Equipment and vehicle use	9
Debris and open burning	6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Smoking	1
Fireworks	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 1996	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Idaho Department of Lands	KOMNICK MD
7 September 1995	Natural	under an acre	Idaho Department of Lands	CEDAR CREEK
6 September 2005	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Nez Perce Tribe	COOK'S GRADE
4 September 2007	Debris and open burning	50 acres	Nez Perce Tribe	LOUSE CREEK
25 September 2014	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Idaho Department of Lands	CEDAR CREEK
25 September 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Idaho Department of Lands	BARN
19 September 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.1 acres	Idaho Department of Lands	MIDDLE ROAD
17 September 1998	Natural	under an acre	Idaho Department of Lands	GOLD HILL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Nez Perce County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Southwick: 3 occurrences, 2 past producers, 1 unknown, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Titanium, REE, Zirconium, Titanium, Iron, Garnet, Gold, Iron, REE, Titanium, Zirconium, Garnet. 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
Cavendish Summit	REE, Zirconium, Titanium, Iron, Garnet	Occurrence
Cedar Creek Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Cedar Creek Placer Deposit	Titanium, REE	Past Producer	1956
Herb Olson Prospect	Titanium, Thorium, REE	Unknown
Teakean Butte Occurrence	Gold, Iron, REE, Titanium, Zirconium, Garnet	Occurrence	Placer
Mason Butte Titanium Placer	Titanium	Occurrence	Placer
Olson Prospect	Titanium	Prospect

Every working recorded in Nez Perce 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
Taney (historical)	3.8 miles	10
Cameron	5.3 miles	10
Big George	7.0 miles	10
Leland	7.4 miles	10
Lenore	7.8 miles	10
Agatha	8.5 miles	10
Willola	8.6 miles	10
Peck	9.2 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 398159. 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.