Yankee Fork District

Yankee Fork District is a producer of gold, silver, lead, copper in Custer County, Idaho, in USGS's medium output class. USGS records production from 1875. It is one of 162 historic gold producers USGS lists in Custer County, and number 1 when they are sorted by output class.

Facts

USGS status
Producer
Output class
medium (USGS class)
Commodities
Gold, Silver, Lead, Copper, Zinc
Deposit type
Epithermal vein, Comstock
Production years
from 1875
Discovered
1875
County
Custer County
State
Idaho
Land status (BLM data)
Private land or land not mapped as public
USGS record
60001730

Source: USGS Mineral Resources Data System (retrieved 2026-10-13). The database was last updated around 2011, positions can be approximate, and "producer" does not mean a mine is operating today. "Output class" is a code whose meaning changed over the years, so compare sites inside this data and do not read it as tonnage.

Land status comes from the BLM Surface Management Agency dataset and can be out of date. Check ownership before you go near any mine site.

Gold sites nearby

72 other USGS gold sites within 12 miles. The Custer County page lists the biggest.