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Wallace, Idaho

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1901 and the latest in 1995. It stands in the Osburn-Wallace census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83873. It stands on Ninemile Creek. The Survey maps it on the Wallace quadrangle. 791 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,730 feet above sea level.

Wallace within Shoshone County

On record in Wallace

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 8 records

Population over time

2 figures

Wallace grew from 784 to 791 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
2010784
2020791+7 (+1%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 17 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

65 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 65 fires within 5 miles of Wallace between 1992 and 2020, burning about 34 acres in total. 30 started naturally. 2 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
Natural30
Recreation and ceremony13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Fireworks2
Arson/incendiarism2
Debris and open burning2
Smoking1

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 2006Naturalunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsLOST LAKE
7 September 1995Naturalunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsBAD TOM MTN
7 September 1995Naturalunder an acreCoeur d'Alene Field OfficeROCK CREEK
6 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIdaho Panhandle National ForestDUDLEY
6 September 1995Naturalunder an acreIdaho Panhandle National ForestBAD TOM
5 September 2013Naturalunder an acreIdaho Panhandle National ForestDUDLEY
26 September 2020Fireworksunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsMOUNT PULASKI
2 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.2 acresIdaho Department of LandsNUCKOLS GULCH

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Shoshone County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 154 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 154 workings within 5 miles of Wallace: 51 occurrences, 46 past producers, 32 prospects, 17 producers. 17 still produce. What was taken out: Silver, Silver, Lead, Lead, Zinc, Lead. 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
ArgentineSilver, Lead, Gold, CopperPast Producer
Bonanza Gold ProspectSilver, GoldProspectVein
Caladay MineSilver, Copper, Zinc, LeadOccurrence
Caladay MineSilver, Copper, GoldProducer1969
Castle Rock MineCopper, Gold, SilverPast Producer
Coeur D'Alene DistrictGold, Zinc, Antimony, Lead, Silver, Copper, CadmiumProducer1878, 1884
Coeur D'Alene MinesCopper, Silver, Lead, Gold, Uranium, CobaltProducerVein
Coeur MineSilver, Antimony, Copper, Zinc, Lead, GoldPast Producer1885, 1892, 1998
East Coeur D'Alene DistrictZinc, Lead, Copper, SilverOccurrence
Galena MineSilver, Zinc, Lead, Copper, Gold, Antimony, UraniumProducer1885, 1922

Every working recorded in Shoshone County

Storms near this place

3 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wallace in 3 storm reports between 2000 and 2006: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 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
August 2002FloodWallace$15,000no account filed
May 2006Thunderstorm WindWallace$2,000no account filed
January 2000Thunderstorm WindWallace-Quarter size hail

Every storm recorded in Shoshone 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
Woodland Park1.6 miles17
McCarthy1.6 miles17
Gentry1.7 miles17
Silverton2.0 miles17
Webb2.2 miles17
Blackcloud2.4 miles18
Bunn3.0 miles18
Golconda3.0 miles17

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 WallaceAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1516495The 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 392796. 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.