Spirit Lake, Idaho
16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Spirit Lake-Athol census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83869. It lies near Butterworth Draw. The Survey maps it on the Spirit Lake East quadrangle. 2,337 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,569 feet above sea level.
On record in Spirit Lake
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 1 record
Spirit Lake Historic Districtlisted 1979
Population over time
2 figuresSpirit Lake grew from 1,945 to 2,337 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 | 1,945 | |
| 2020 | 2,337 | +392 (+20%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 16 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.
- 1903 USGS Rathdrum quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1955 USGS Spokane quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Spokane quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Spirit Lake quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Spirit Lake East quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1987 USGS Coeur D'Alene quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
- 1996 USGS Spirit Lake East quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
108 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 108 fires within 5 miles of Spirit Lake between 1992 and 2020, burning about 177 acres in total. 21 started naturally. 5 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 36 |
| Natural | 21 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 20 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 11 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 6 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 5 |
| Smoking | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| 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 2000 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Idaho Department of Lands | N. EDWARDS PILE |
| 8 September 2000 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Idaho Department of Lands | CHARGER |
| 5 September 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Idaho Department of Lands | CONVERTER |
| 5 September 1993 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Idaho Department of Lands | SPIRIT CAVES |
| 29 September 2001 | Natural | under an acre | Idaho Department of Lands | SPIRIT RIDGE |
| 26 September 2005 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Idaho Department of Lands | MARKER 16 |
| 25 September 2000 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Idaho Department of Lands | TREE FORT |
| 24 September 2012 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Idaho Department of Lands | CLAGSTONE 22 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
7 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Spirit Lake: 5 past producers, 1 producer, 1 unknown. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clagst One Pit | Stone | Past Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Paisley Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
7 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Spirit Lake in 7 storm reports between 1998 and 2022: 2 flood, 1 heavy rain, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2017 | Debris Flow | Spirit Lake | $900,000 | Snow melt and periodic heavy rain during the month of March caused numerous debris flows and areal flooding issues through out the county. A debris flow near Harrison forced the evacuation of a residential neighborhood with the land continuing to move through the beginning of April. Over 20 roads through out the county were washed out or cut by debris flows and numerous homes experienced basement and first floor flooding. Kootenai County was included in a Presidential Disaster Declaration as a result of the damage inflicted by this episode. |
| February 2014 | Flood | Spirit Lake | $160,000 | Heavy runoff led to several drive washouts for residents on hilly terrain across Kootenai County. A swollen Latour creek washed away a small levee and parcel of land that supported a shed at a private residence on South Latour Creek Road. |
| July 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Spirit Lake | $10,000 | small fire started from trees blowing onto power lines. |
| June 2022 | Funnel Cloud | Spirit Lake | - | Funnel cloud reported with no damage. |
| January 2012 | Flood | Spirit Lake | - | Several roads throughout Kootenai County experienced minor flooding. These roads included Highway 41 between Rathdrum and Spirit Lake, Old Highway 95 and Prairie View Road, along with several other secondary and private roadways. Widespread CocoRahs reports of two inches were received from the area. |
| June 1998 | Heavy Rain | Spirit Lake | - | .30 inches of rain in 15 minutes |
| June 2012 | Hail | Spirit Lake | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Silver Beach | 1.8 miles | 16 | |
| Silver Sands Beach | 5.2 miles | 16 | |
| Fir Grove | 5.4 miles | 16 | |
| Echo Beach | 5.4 miles | 16 | |
| Excelsior Beach | 6.0 miles | 16 | |
| Twinlow | 6.2 miles | 16 | |
| Wright (historical) | 7.3 miles | 16 | |
| Ramsey | 7.7 miles | 15 |
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 Spirit Lake | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1519632 | 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 398162. 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.






