Everything below comes straight from the federal record (USGS MRDS) — every documented gold occurrence, prospect and producer in Idaho, mapped and readable for free. Not the famous names retold: the actual filed records, including the quiet ground between the famous districts.
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Principal recorded commodities: Gold (3,033) · Silver (1,440) · Sand and Gravel, Construction (1,297) · Lead (712) · Copper (697) · Geothermal (409).
The counties with the most recorded gold occurrences — each links to its own page and into the live map of that ground (claims, creeks, roads and geology on):
| County | Gold records | Producers |
|---|---|---|
| Idaho County map → | 589 | 312 |
| Lemhi County map → | 403 | 170 |
| Valley County map → | 343 | 30 |
| Custer County map → | 307 | 85 |
| Boise County map → | 283 | 159 |
| Blaine County map → | 204 | 104 |
| Owyhee County map → | 140 | 106 |
| Elmore County map → | 125 | 70 |
| Shoshone County map → | 111 | 49 |
| Clearwater County map → | 110 | 52 |
Sites the federal record lists with medium or large production — proven ground worth a careful, legal look at the country around it:
| Site | County | Status | Recorded size |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ada Elmore Lode | Elmore | Past Producer | Large |
| Cedar | Boise | Producer | Large |
| Etta No. 1 | Boise | Producer | Large |
| Fourth of July Group | Boise | Producer | Large |
| Hecla Mine | Shoshone | Past Producer | Large |
| Mammoth | Boise | Producer | Large |
| Palos Verdes | Boise | Producer | Large |
| Star-Morning Mine | Shoshone | Past Producer | Large |
The free map shows every dot above. Membership opens the layers that turn dots into a plan — favorability at working zoom, active claims, land ownership, geology and the creeks that drain the known sources. The first 7 days are free.
The dots are the record. The method is how you read them: