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Archer, Idaho

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Rexburg census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83440. The Survey maps it on the Ririe quadrangle.

Archer within Madison County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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.

Fires near this place

9 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Archer between 1992 and 2014, burning about 15 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Recreation and ceremony3
Debris and open burning2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Other causes1
Arson/incendiarism1

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

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
4 August 1995Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreIdaho Falls DistrictRIRIE BNCH
5 July 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.7 acresIdaho Falls DistrictARCHER
4 July 2004Debris and open burningunder an acreIdaho Falls DistrictELK HORN
4 July 1992Other causesunder an acreIdaho Falls DistrictTWIN BRDGS
11 July 2009Arson/incendiarismunder an acreIdaho Falls DistrictLORENZO
11 May 2013Recreation and ceremony7.9 acresIdaho Falls DistrictRIVERBOTTOM
28 April 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.3 acresIdaho Falls DistrictLORENZO
24 March 2004Debris and open burning2.0 acresIdaho Falls DistrictLORENZO

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Madison County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Archer: 4 past producers, 2 producers, 1 occurrence. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Geothermal. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Elkhorn Warm SpringGeothermalOccurrence
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Madison County

Storms near this place

2 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Archer in 2 storm reports between 2019 and 2022: 2 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2022Thunderstorm WindArcher$1,000Thunderstorm winds felled a tree which fell on a power line starting a small wildfire.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindArcher-A storm survey found several large cottonwood limbs removed from trees near Archer.

Every storm recorded in Madison 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Byrne2.4 miles10
Sunnydell2.5 miles11
Lyman2.6 miles11
Jensen2.8 miles10
Thornton4.5 miles13
Gale4.9 miles9
Mark5.0 miles13
Walker5.6 miles9

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.

Wikipedia article on ArcherAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q48851881The 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 397388. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.