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Vans Corner, Idaho

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1911 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Priest River census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83856. The Survey maps it on the Priest Lake SW quadrangle. It stands 2,569 feet above sea level.

Vans Corner within Bonner County

On record in Vans Corner

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

109 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 109 fires within 5 miles of Vans Corner between 1992 and 2020, burning about 20 acres in total. 52 started naturally. 6 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
Natural52
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Recreation and ceremony10
Power generation/transmission/distribution9
Debris and open burning6
Arson/incendiarism6
Smoking3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Fireworks2
Other causes1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
8 September 2004Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreIdaho Panhandle National ForestHOT LINE
8 September 1995Naturalunder an acreIdaho Panhandle National Forest639C
5 September 1995Naturalunder an acreIdaho Panhandle National ForestROCKY PINE
3 September 2005Naturalunder an acreIdaho Panhandle National ForestPOWERLINE
29 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsSTEAMBOAT BAY
25 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIdaho Panhandle National ForestLINDA LANE
2 September 2010Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreIdaho Panhandle National ForestSCHNEIDER
19 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIdaho Panhandle National ForestHONEYMOON

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bonner County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 20 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 20 workings within 5 miles of Vans Corner: 8 occurrences, 8 past producers, 3 prospects, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Uranium, Gold, Silver, Zinc, Copper, Gold, Lead, Silver, 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
Binarch Cr. GroupIronProspect
Binarch Cr. Mining Co. ProspectGold, Silver, Zinc, CopperOccurrenceVein
IdahoCopper, Silver, GoldOccurrence
Milwaukee MineBeryllium, Lead, SilverProspect
Milwaukee MinesGold, Silver, ZincUnknown
Milwaukee Mines ProspectLead, SilverOccurrenceVein
Nevada Mines ProspectGold, Lead, Silver, ZincOccurrenceVein
Nevada Mines ProspectLead, Zinc, Silver, GoldOccurrence
Rat GroupSilver, Lead, ZincProspect
Unnamed LocationBerylliumOccurrence

Every working recorded in Bonner 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
Lamb Creek0.9 miles12
Outlet Bay3.2 miles18
Dickensheet Junction5.3 miles18
Sherwood Beach5.6 miles16
Coolin5.7 miles16
Nordman7.5 miles12
Four Corners16.6 miles17
Colburn23.1 miles16

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 Vans CornerAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7915169The 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 397293. 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.