Taplin, Idaho

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1946 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Lewiston census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83501. It stands on Captain John Creek. The Survey maps it on the Captain John Rapids quadrangle. It stands 843 feet above sea level.

Taplin within Nez Perce County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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.

1946 USGS Limekiln Rapids quadrangle1:62500
1955 USGS Pullman quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Pullman quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1968 USGS Captain John Rapids quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Orofino quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

14 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Taplin between 1996 and 2020, burning about 13,058 acres in total. 8 started naturally. None was 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	8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6

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
28 August 2006	Natural	18 acres	Idaho Department of Lands	TURDUCKEN
24 August 2000	Natural	under an acre	Coeur d'Alene Field Office	CAPT RIDGE
2 August 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2,494 acres	Washington State Fire Marshal's Office	WEISSENFELS RIDGE
2 August 2004	Natural	under an acre	Cottonwood Field Office	PARK OUT
2 August 1996	Natural	under an acre	Nez Perce Tribe	NHARRIS
11 August 2006	Natural	50 acres	Idaho Department of Lands	LONG JOHN
5 July 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9,859 acres	Washington State Fire Marshal's Office	GILMORE GULCH
4 July 2009	Natural	15 acres	Idaho Department of Lands	LAKE WAHA

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Nez Perce County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Taplin: 5 prospects, 4 occurrences, 3 past producers, 2 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Copper, Limestone, General, Gold, Silver. 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	Recorded
Rosebud	Gold, Silver, Copper	Past Producer
Billy Creek Pumicite Occurrence	Pumice	Occurrence
Captain John Creek Pumicite Occurrence	Pumice	Occurrence
Captain John Creek Limestone Deposit	Limestone, General	Past Producer	Limestone
Gold Leaf	Gold, Silver	Occurrence
Gold Pan	Silver	Prospect
Hether Group	Gold, Silver	Prospect
Madden Creek Limestone Deposit	Limestone, General	Past Producer	Limestone
Wooster Claim	Limestone, General	Occurrence
Empress No.1&2	Copper	Prospect

Every working recorded in Nez Perce 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
Waha	5.9 miles	9
Zaza	7.7 miles	10
Snow (historical)	12.6 miles	9
Fairburn (historical)	12.7 miles	9
Webb	14.2 miles	9
Lewiston Orchards	15.9 miles	9
Sweetwater	16.9 miles	9
Woodside	17.0 miles	8

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 Q21551759

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 399515. 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.