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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.

Spirit Lake within Kootenai County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Spirit 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.

YearPeople Change
20101,945
20202,337+392 (+20%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 16 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

108 since 1992

Regional 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 burning36
Natural21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined20
Recreation and ceremony11
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Arson/incendiarism5
Smoking4
Equipment and vehicle use4
Fireworks1

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 2000Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsN. EDWARDS PILE
8 September 2000Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresIdaho Department of LandsCHARGER
5 September 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsCONVERTER
5 September 1993Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsSPIRIT CAVES
29 September 2001Naturalunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsSPIRIT RIDGE
26 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsMARKER 16
25 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsTREE FORT
24 September 2012Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsCLAGSTONE 22

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kootenai 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 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Clagst One PitStonePast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Paisley PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Kootenai County

Storms near this place

7 since 1998

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 2017Debris FlowSpirit Lake$900,000Snow 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 2014FloodSpirit Lake$160,000Heavy 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 1998Thunderstorm WindSpirit Lake$10,000small fire started from trees blowing onto power lines.
June 2022Funnel CloudSpirit Lake-Funnel cloud reported with no damage.
January 2012FloodSpirit 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 1998Heavy RainSpirit Lake-.30 inches of rain in 15 minutes
June 2012HailSpirit Lake-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Kootenai 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
Silver Beach1.8 miles16
Silver Sands Beach5.2 miles16
Fir Grove5.4 miles16
Echo Beach5.4 miles16
Excelsior Beach6.0 miles16
Twinlow6.2 miles16
Wright (historical)7.3 miles16
Ramsey7.7 miles15

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 LakeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1519632The 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.