Smelterville, ID Temporary Commercial Kitchen Rental and Lease Options

A short-term kitchen rental after a failure and a long-term kitchen lease during a rebuild start the same way: a mobile kitchen for Smelterville is matched to the menu, the crew and the power available. A project that crosses into Kellogg (about 2,441 residents) usually keeps one menu, one crew and one power plan, which is why the kitchen is chosen first.

Kitchens in the fleet run from the 24ft Mobile Kitchen up to the 40ft Bulk Combo Kitchen. For a site like this one, the 28ft Mobile Kitchen, 24ft Mobile Kitchen and 38ft Mobile Kitchen are the models to compare first, each with its listed equipment and electrical requirements.

Rental customers in Smelterville are commercial, institutional and public: manufacturers, nursing homes, municipal agencies and school districts. Each has its own pressure points, from a industrial facility temporary kitchen during a remodel to keeping staff fed through a long project. Coeur d'Alene (about 57,355 residents) and Hayden (about 16,924 residents) each have their own mix of hospitals, schools and plants, but the reasons they rent line up.

CMS lists one hospital in Shoshone County: Shoshone Medical Center, a critical access hospital. The county also has 2 nursing homes certified by Medicare or Medicaid, with about 123 beds. Public schools here number 7, enrolling about 1,592 students, with Kellogg Joint District, Wallace District and Mullan District among the larger districts (NCES).

• Manufacturing Plant Cafeteria Kitchen Rentals: plant shutdowns and turnarounds that bring in extra contractors
• Nursing Home and Assisted Living Kitchen Rentals: equipment failure in an older kitchen that cannot be repaired quickly
• Municipal and Public Institution Kitchen Trailer Rentals: public buildings under renovation
• School Cafeteria Kitchen Rentals During Renovation: central kitchens that need a temporary production line during modernization

Smelterville is the 108th most populous of the 128 Idaho places this site covers, with an estimated 705 residents in 2024. It covers about 0.3 square miles of Shoshone County. Shoshone County covers 2,637 square miles and has 6 places on this site, about 8,106 residents between them; the largest is Kellogg. Spread over that area, the estimate gives about 2,304 residents per square mile. Boise City, the Idaho capital, is about 272 miles away in a straight line, which matters for state-level emergency coordination. The nearest larger place covered here is Kellogg, about 2 miles away in a straight line.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau Gazetteer 2024 and Vintage 2024 population estimates. Distances are straight-line estimates, not driving distances.

Sources: OpenFEMA (retrieved October 30, 2026); NOAA Storm Events, NIFC fire perimeters, NOAA nClimDiv normals, CMS provider data, NCES school data and USASpending.gov (retrieved October 31, 2026). Public records for an area or a project, not damage reports or work we did.

A kitchen is only half of food service. A dishwashing trailer such as the 30ft High-Temp Conveyor Dishwashing Trailer (220V, 3 phase, 200A) handles trays, plates and pans so Smelterville kitchens do not fall back on disposables. Warewashing needs the same hot water and drain plan in St. Maries, 24 miles from here, as it does here.

A failed walk-in freezer is a race against thawing. Call the 24-hour line for an emergency refrigerated trailer; the 20ft Cooler Trailer, 32°F lists 220V, single phase, 40 to 60A and a standard receptacle. Dalton Gardens sits in Kootenai County, which has 16 federal declarations on record; a walk-in that fails there starts the same clock on the stock inside.

NOAA's 1991 to 2020 county normals put the average January low in Shoshone County at 22°F and the average July high at 77°F, with about 48 inches of precipitation a year. January lows run about 4 degrees warmer than the average Idaho county. Frequent rain makes ground conditions the main delivery question, more than distance or trailer length.

Moving the job to Plummer or Rathdrum changes the pad and the paperwork; the list below stays the same.

• Approvals: the local health authority for Shoshone County decides what review a temporary kitchen needs, so ask first.
• Contacts: name the person who will meet the delivery and the person who will approve the setup.
• Supplies: mark a drop point for food and paper goods that keeps carts away from utility lines.

Read the site planning section before you fix a delivery date.

Facilities near Smelterville often compare notes with neighbors. These places are close enough to plan together, measured in straight-line miles from Smelterville, not driving distance.

• Kellogg, ID: about 2 miles from Smelterville, about 2,441 residents
• Pinehurst, ID: about 3 miles from Smelterville, about 1,784 residents
• Osburn, ID: about 9 miles from Smelterville, about 1,678 residents
• St. Maries, ID: about 24 miles from Smelterville, about 2,487 residents
• Dalton Gardens, ID: about 30 miles from Smelterville, about 2,498 residents
• Coeur d'Alene, ID: about 31 miles from Smelterville, about 57,355 residents

The nearest Idaho counties to Smelterville are Kootenai County (26 miles), Benewah County (31 miles) and Latah County (56 miles).

• Kootenai County: about 26 miles from Smelterville, 16 FEMA declarations since records began, 2 hospitals listed by CMS
• Benewah County: about 31 miles from Smelterville, 14 FEMA declarations since records began, 1 hospital listed by CMS
• Latah County: about 56 miles from Smelterville, 14 FEMA declarations since records began, 1 hospital listed by CMS

Plan the kitchen first; everything else is sized around mobile kitchens in Smelterville. Crews on a long or remote job can add shower and restroom combination trailer rentals, such as the 22ft Six-Stall Shower and Restroom Trailer, or bunk bed sleeper trailer rentals, such as the 20ft Contractor Accommodation Unit. Each model page lists its equipment and power, and we quote them on request.