Chester, Idaho

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the St. Anthony census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83421. It stands on Fall River. The Survey maps it on the Newdale quadrangle. It stands 5,072 feet above sea level.

Chester within Fremont County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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.

1949 USGS Newdale quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1950 USGS Newdale quadrangle1:24000
1955 USGS Driggs quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Driggs quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Driggs quadrangle1:250000
1988 USGS Rexburg quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

1 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Chester in 2016, burning about 18 acres in total. 1 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	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
7 August 2016	Natural	18 acres	Idaho Falls District	FREEMONT COUNTY ASSIST 1

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fremont County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Chester: 7 producers, 1 past producer. 7 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Fremont County

Storms near this place

9 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Chester in 9 storm reports between 1998 and 2024: 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud, 1 tornado, 1 hail. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
August 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Chester	$10,000	Fremont County 911 Dispatch Center reported multiple trees and wires down across south central Fremont County.
September 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Chester	$3,000	Trees and power lines were reported downed from thunderstorm winds in Chester.
October 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Chester	$1,000	Two large cottonwood trees reported downed in Chester along with several tree limbs from other trees.
August 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Chester	-	The RWIS ITDD3 Fall River US 20 site measured a 72 mph wind gust.
June 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Chester	-	Large tree limbs were down and minor damage to sheet metal roofs on 2 barns along N 2800 E.
June 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Chester	-	The Fall River site recorded a 58 mph wind gust.
July 2004	Tornado (F0)	Chester	-	Weak tornado east of Chester.
June 2006	Hail	Chester	-	no account filed
May 1998	Funnel Cloud	Chester	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Fremont 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
Twin Groves	3.5 miles	10
Ora	6.3 miles	10
Saint Anthony	6.4 miles	10
Sarilda	7.7 miles	10
Ashton	8.1 miles	11
Newdale	8.2 miles	10
Wilford	8.3 miles	10
Lodi (historical)	8.5 miles	11

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 Chester	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5093405	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 371984. 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.