Anderson Place, Idaho

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the West Salmon Falls census division. It lies near John Boyd Flat. The Survey maps it on the Cedar Creek Reservoir quadrangle.

Anderson Place within Twin Falls County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 7 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

1955 USGS Twin Falls quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Twin Falls quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1977 USGS Cedar Creek Reservoir quadrangle1:24000
1992 USGS Rogerson quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

10 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Anderson Place between 1992 and 2015, burning about 804 acres in total. 4 started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Natural	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Debris and open burning	2
Firearms and explosives use	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
18 September 1999	Natural	under an acre	Boise District	CEDARCRRES
1 September 2007	Firearms and explosives use	under an acre	Twin Falls District	CEDAR MESA
28 August 1992	Debris and open burning	25 acres	Boise District	PIGTAIL
26 August 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	623 acres	Boise District	GRENSTRIP2
23 August 1999	Natural	1.0 acres	Boise District	WORLEY DRW
19 August 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Boise District	GREENSTRIP
14 August 1994	Natural	3.0 acres	Boise District	JOHN BOYD
24 July 2015	Natural	15 acres	Twin Falls District	CEDAR BUTTE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Twin Falls County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Anderson Place: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Twin Falls County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Hoelzle Place	3.1 miles	7
Bergstrom Place	3.5 miles	7
May Place	4.4 miles	7
Threemile Crossing	4.6 miles	7
Indian Jim Place	5.7 miles	7
Hand Place	7.0 miles	7
Vosburg Place	8.0 miles	7
Roseworth	8.6 miles	8

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikidata item Q122588569

The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 376138. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.