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Stites, Idaho

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1924 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Nez Perce census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83552. It stands on Cottonwood Creek. The Survey maps it on the Stites quadrangle. 171 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 1,306 feet above sea level.

Stites within Idaho County

Population over time

2 figures

Stites fell from 221 to 171 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
2010221
2020171-50 (-23%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 9 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

89 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 89 fires within 5 miles of Stites between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,448 acres in total. 45 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
Natural45
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Debris and open burning12
Equipment and vehicle use8
Arson/incendiarism3
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
7 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMaggie Creek Area OfficeRAILROAD
7 September 1998Naturalunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsRABBIT CREEK
20 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCoeur d'Alene Field OfficeTAHOE
2 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined55 acresIdaho Department of LandsCLEAR CREEK
19 September 2005Debris and open burning95 acresNez Perce TribeFORT MISERY
14 September 2002Equipment and vehicle use4.0 acresIdaho Department of LandsTOO KUSH
10 September 1997Naturalunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsSMITH
10 September 1997Naturalunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsMP 72

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Idaho County

Mines and quarries near this place

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Stites: 3 producers, 2 past producers, 2 unknowns, 1 occurrence. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Kaolin, Manganese. 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
Baldwin ManganeseManganeseProspect
Stites Clay Occurrence 23KaolinOccurrenceClay
Borrow PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel Pit 105Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
State Pit 425-166Sand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Abbie Welch Rock PitStoneProducer
Clearwater PitStoneProducer
Idaho County Rock PitStoneProducer
Kidder Ridge PitStoneUnknown

Every working recorded in Idaho County

Storms near this place

1 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Stites in 1 storm report in 2010: 1 flash flood. 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
June 2010Flash FloodStites$800,000Heavy rain fall rates of 0.60 inches in an hour fell near Kooskia, Idaho. This caused a culvert to be washed out along Battle Ridge Road. Flash flooding also caused the closure of State Highway 13 between Harpster and Kooskia.

Every storm recorded in Idaho 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
Kooskia3.7 miles10
Clearwater6.6 miles9
Harpster7.3 miles11
Winona7.5 miles10
East Kamiah7.8 miles10
Big Cedar8.6 miles12
Tahoe9.0 miles12
Caribel11.6 miles10

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 StitesAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1512367The 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 398187. 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.