Upper Crossing, Idaho

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Elk City census division. It lies near Langdon Gulch. The Survey maps it on the Beaver Jack Mountain quadrangle.

Upper Crossing within Idaho County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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.

1956 USGS Elk City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1960 USGS Elk City quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Beaver Jack Mtn quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1998 USGS Beaver Jack Mountain quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

103 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 103 fires within 5 miles of Upper Crossing between 1992 and 2019, burning about 53,469 acres in total. 99 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	99
Smoking	2
Recreation and ceremony	2

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
9 September 2011	Natural	17 acres	Bitterroot National Forest	NORTH HALF
9 September 2011	Natural	521 acres	Bitterroot National Forest	HORSEJAW 2
7 September 1998	Natural	under an acre	Bitterroot National Forest	HAYSTACK CR.
6 September 1997	Natural	under an acre	Bitterroot National Forest	LANGDON TRAIL
6 September 1997	Natural	10 acres	Bitterroot National Forest	KIM CR.
25 September 2019	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Bitterroot National Forest	LUNCH CREEK
17 September 1995	Natural	under an acre	Bitterroot National Forest	SWET CREEK
17 September 1995	Natural	under an acre	Bitterroot National Forest	GOAT CREEK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Idaho County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Upper Crossing: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. 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.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Borrow Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Red River Hot Springs	27.9 miles	10
Lightfoot	35.0 miles	10
Jim Moore Place	35.2 miles	8
Gibler	36.7 miles	10
Leprouse	36.9 miles	10
Gold Point	37.6 miles	11
Dixie	40.5 miles	10
Elk City	40.7 miles	11

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 Q122539574

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 397290. 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.