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Custer, Idaho

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1989. It stands in the Stanley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83278. It stands on Adair Creek. The Survey maps it on the Custer quadrangle. It stands 6,470 feet above sea level.

Custer within Custer County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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

24 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Custer between 1992 and 2019, burning about 6,713 acres in total. 13 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
Natural13
Recreation and ceremony10
Smoking1

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
18 September 1998Naturalunder an acreSalmon-Challis National ForestRANKIN CREEK
15 September 2001Naturalunder an acreSalmon-Challis National ForestJERRY
9 August 1997Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSalmon-Challis National ForestFIVE MILE
7 August 2008Naturalunder an acreSalmon-Challis National ForestCREALEY FIRE
7 August 2006Naturalunder an acreSalmon-Challis National ForestROOKIE
4 August 2016Smokingunder an acreSalmon-Challis National ForestROOKIE
4 August 2006Naturalunder an acreSalmon-Challis National ForestCUSTER
29 August 2003Naturalunder an acreSalmon-Challis National ForestRAMEY

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Custer County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 93 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 93 workings within 5 miles of Custer: 44 prospects, 37 past producers, 7 occurrences, 3 producers. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Silver, Gold, Gold, Silver. 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
Arcade MineSilver, Gold, Lead, CopperPast ProducerVein
Badger MineGold, Silver, Zinc, Copper, LeadPast ProducerVein
Bonanza MineGold, Copper, Lead, TungstenPast Producer1922
Continental MineGold, Silver, Zinc, Lead, CopperPast Producer1878
Dubuque MineGold, MercuryPast ProducerPlacer
Enterprise GroupGold, Copper, Lead, SilverPast Producer
Fourth of July MineGold, Silver, Copper, ZincPast ProducerArgentite, Chalcopyrite, Gold, Sphalerite
General Custer MineGold, Silver, Antimony, Lead, Copper, ZincPast Producer1876
Golden Sunbeam MineGold, Silver, Copper, REEPast Producer1879, 1903
Gray Eagle MineSilver, Gold, Zinc, Copper, LeadPast ProducerVein

Every working recorded in Custer County

Storms near this place

1 since 2025

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Custer in 1 storm report in 2025: 1 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 2025Thunderstorm WindCuster-The Little Creek mesonet site measured a 64 mph thunderstorm outflow wind gust.

Every storm recorded in Custer 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
Bonanza2.1 miles16
Sunbeam8.3 miles16
Robinson Bar9.7 miles15
Torreys10.5 miles14
Casto14.9 miles13
Lower Stanley16.6 miles16
Stanley17.4 miles16
Clayton18.0 miles13

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 CusterAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3085818The 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 396356. 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.