Springston, Idaho

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Harrison census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83833. It stands on Thompson Creek. The Survey maps it on the Black Lake quadrangle.

Springston within Kootenai County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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 Spokane quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS St. Maries quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1958 USGS Spokane quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Black Lake quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS St Maries quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1996 USGS Black Lake quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

50 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 50 fires within 5 miles of Springston between 1992 and 2020, burning about 132 acres in total. 20 started naturally. 3 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	20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	11
Debris and open burning	7
Recreation and ceremony	4
Arson/incendiarism	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Smoking	1
Other causes	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
7 September 2020	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Idaho Department of Lands	MANIFOLD
5 September 1999	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Idaho Department of Lands	RUSSELL
3 September 2003	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Idaho Department of Lands	BELL CANYON RD
29 September 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Idaho Department of Lands	APPLE ORCHARD
17 September 2001	Natural	under an acre	Coeur d'Alene Field Office	THOMPSON LAKE
17 September 1994	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Idaho Department of Lands	BELL CANYON
16 September 2001	Natural	under an acre	Coeur d'Alene Field Office	ANDERSON LAKE
14 September 1993	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Idaho Panhandle National Forest	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Kootenai County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Springston: 4 producers, 1 unknown. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Pit and Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Lacon	2.8 miles	10
Harrison	3.2 miles	10
Ch'ach'alqw Landing	5.0 miles	10
Conkling Park	5.3 miles	10
Len Landing	6.6 miles	15
Medimont	6.8 miles	10
Smaq'wqn Hill	6.9 miles	10
Rockford Bay	7.9 miles	14

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.

Wikidata item Q122596198

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 398169. 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.