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Burke destroyed by fire 100 years ago

by RON ROIZEN/Moving History Forward
| August 11, 2023 1:00 AM

The 100th anniversary of the fire that demolished Burke, Idaho, on July 13-14, 1923, passed by mostly unnoticed last month.

Burke, 7 miles north and east of Wallace, was one of the earliest mining towns on the South Fork side of the Coeur d’Alene Mining District...

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