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Warm Lake, Idaho

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1989. It stands in the Cascade census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83611. It stands on Reeves Creek. The Survey maps it on the Warm Lake quadrangle.

Warm Lake within Valley County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

144 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 144 fires within 5 miles of Warm Lake between 1992 and 2019, burning about 31,763 acres in total. 96 started naturally. 1 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
Natural96
Recreation and ceremony19
Smoking10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Equipment and vehicle use4
Debris and open burning3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Arson/incendiarism1

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 1998Naturalunder an acreBoise National ForestCURTIS CREEK
6 September 2000Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreBoise National ForestLINE
6 September 1998Naturalunder an acreBoise National ForestBIG CREEK
5 September 2019Power generation/transmission/distribution1.5 acresBoise National ForestLODGE
5 September 2002Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresBoise National ForestCAMPFIRE
3 September 2007Naturalunder an acreBoise National ForestCURTIS CREEK
3 September 1995Naturalunder an acreBoise National ForestLODGEPOLE CREEK
3 September 1995Naturalunder an acreBoise National ForestTWO BIT

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Valley County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Warm Lake: 7 occurrences, 2 past producers, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Geothermal, Thorium, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Quartz. 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
Erwin Mickey QuartzQuartzOccurrence
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
QuarryStonePast Producer
Stolle MeadowsThoriumUnknown
Tungsten PointTungstenOccurrence
Geothermal LocationGeothermalOccurrence
Geothermal LocationGeothermalOccurrence
Molly S Hot SpringsGeothermalOccurrence
South Fork PlungeGeothermalOccurrence
Trail Creek Hot SpringGeothermalOccurrence

Every working recorded in Valley County

Storms near this place

4 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Warm Lake in 4 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 heavy rain. 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
July 1995Thunderstorm WindWarm Lake$5,000Early morning severe thunderstorms produced strong gusty winds and hail.
November 2024Heavy RainWarm Lake-A COOP observer 30 miles north of Lowman measured 1.68 inches of heavy rain.
September 2007Flash FloodWarm Lake-Heavy Rain Accumlations Estimated Near 1.5 inches with 0.38 Inches Occuring Between 2 AM and 3 AM on Portions of the Cascade Complex Burn Area Caused a Debris Flow with Water, Mud, and Rocks Flowing on to Forest Service Road 579 about 4 Miles North of Deadwood Lodge.
June 2002HailWarm Lake-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Valley 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
Lakeshore Summer Home Area0.6 miles13
Shoreline Drive Summer Home Area0.7 miles13
Kinney Point Summer Home Area1.1 miles13
Paradise Valley Summer Home Area1.2 miles13
Landmark6.5 miles12
Arling20.4 miles13
Roseberry20.9 miles13
Cascade22.0 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 398316. 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.