Goldfield Mill, Washington

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.

• 1929 USGS Colville quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
• 1933 USGS Colville quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
• 1952 USGS Spirit quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
• 1958 USGS Sandpoint quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1963 USGS Sandpoint quadrangle1:250000
• 1984 USGS Colville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
• 1992 USGS Spirit quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 56 fires within 5 miles of Goldfield Mill between 1993 and 2020, burning about 135 acres in total. 32 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Aladdin
• Blue Town (historical)
• East Marcus
• Frontier
• Greenwood
• Kettle Falls

Every fire recorded in Stevens County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 28 workings within 5 miles of Goldfield Mill: 11 occurrences, 11 prospects, 5 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Lead, Silver, Zinc, 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.

Every working recorded in Stevens County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1520121. 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.