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Star Ranch Summer Home Area, Idaho

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1894 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Idaho City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83631. It stands on Canyon Creek. The Survey maps it on the Placerville quadrangle.

Star Ranch Summer Home Area within Boise County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 20 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

125 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 125 fires within 5 miles of Star Ranch Summer Home Area between 1992 and 2020, burning about 302 acres in total. 77 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
Natural77
Recreation and ceremony15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Equipment and vehicle use7
Debris and open burning7
Arson/incendiarism3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Other causes1

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 2012Naturalunder an acreBoise National ForestDEADMAN
9 September 2012Naturalunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsWEST FORK
9 September 1999Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresBoise National ForestTOWN FIRE
9 September 1997Naturalunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsIOWA MINE ROAD
8 September 2001Naturalunder an acreBoise National ForestOPHIR CREEK
7 September 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsCLEAR
7 September 2001Naturalunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsOPHIR CREEK
7 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreBoise National ForestOLD HAHN

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Boise County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 73 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 73 workings within 5 miles of Star Ranch Summer Home Area: 33 past producers, 20 occurrences, 9 unknowns, 8 producers. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Lead, Silver, Lead, Copper, 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
BelshazzarGold, Silver, Lead, CopperPast Producer
Blue Rock DepositLead, Zinc, Copper, Gold, SilverOccurrenceGalena, Sphalerite, Tetrahedrite
Blue Rock DepositLead, Copper, Zinc, Gold, SilverUnknown
Blue Rock GroupLead, Zinc, Silver, GoldOccurrenceVein
Bummer Mill DiggingsGold, REE, MolybdenumUnknown
Canyon Creek MineZinc, LeadOccurrence1937
Canyon Creek ProspectGold, Lead, Silver, ZincPast Producer
Clear Creek Mine No.1Lead, AntimonyOccurrence
Coin Bond GroupGold, Zinc, SilverPast Producer
Crackerjack and Old BostonGold, REE, Zirconium, SilverPast Producer

Every working recorded in Boise 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
Granite1.9 miles20
Placerville2.4 miles20
Quartzburg3.5 miles20
New Centerville3.8 miles20
Centerville4.0 miles20
Pioneerville7.5 miles19
Idaho City9.2 miles19
Grimes Pass10.8 miles13

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 Q122561812The 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 400495. 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.