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The Wallace 1910 Fire Memorial, near Wallace, Idaho, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. [1]It consists of two cobblestone monuments in the Nine Mile Cemetery, erected in 1921 by the United States Forest Service, with associated graves of firefighters who died in forest fires in 1910.
Wallace, Idaho is a city in and the county seat of Shoshone County, Idaho, [5] in the Silver Valley mining district of the Idaho Panhandle. Founded in 1884, Wallace sits alongside the South Fork of the Coeur d'Alene River (and Interstate 90). The town's population was 791 at the 2020 census.
Pulaski and his crew were fighting the fire in an area around the west fork of Placer Creek, approximately 10 miles (16 km) southwest of Wallace. When the fire became too dangerous, Pulaski ordered his forty-five men to evacuate toward Wallace. As they retreated, a second fire blocked their way, leaving them surrounded by fire. Pulaski knew the ...
Wallace following the Great Fire of 1910 According to the U.S. Census Bureau , the county has an area of 2,635 square miles (6,820 km 2 ), of which 2,630 square miles (6,800 km 2 ) is land and 5.5 square miles (14 km 2 ) (0.2%) is water.
The Great Fire of 1910 (also commonly referred to as the Big Blowup, the Big Burn, or the Devil's Broom fire) was a wildfire in the Inland Northwest region of the United States that in the summer of 1910 burned three million acres (4,700 sq mi; 12,100 km 2, approximately the size of Connecticut) in North Idaho and Western Montana, with extensions into Eastern Washington and Southeast British ...
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Feb. 15—Investigators believe they have solved the Great Depression-era cold case of an Idaho game warden who vanished in the mountains south of Mullan. Though the body of Ellsworth Arthur Teed ...
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