Filer, Idaho
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1958. It stands in the Filer census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83328. The Survey maps it on the Filer quadrangle. 2,738 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 3,766 feet above sea level.
On record in Filer
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 2 records
Achille Duquesne Houselisted 1993- Union Schoollisted 2003
Population over time
2 figuresFiler grew from 2,508 to 2,738 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 2,508 | |
| 2020 | 2,738 | +230 (+9%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
4 surveys from 9 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1950 USGS Filer quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1950 USGS Jerome quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Twin Falls quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Twin Falls quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
2 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Filer between 1992 and 2013, burning about 65 acres in total. None 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
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 September 1992 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Twin Falls District | DEVIL-FIVE |
| 21 July 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 64 acres | Idaho Falls District | PIGEON COVE |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Filer: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Iron, Chromium. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Snake River Placer Deposits | Gold, Iron, Chromium | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
11 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Filer in 11 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 heavy rain, 2 flash flood, 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Filer | $200,000 | no account filed |
| July 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Filer | $25,000 | A strong thunderstorm produced wind gusts which peeled the roof off of a business in Filer. |
| July 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Filer | $15,000 | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Heavy Rain | Filer | $5,000 | no account filed |
| May 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Filer | - | A large branch fell from a willow tree nearly missing a home. Winds were estimated to be 65 MPH based off of the large canopy and size of the branch broken. |
| September 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Filer | - | A post on Facebook reported a roof was ripped off of a barn and irrigation pivots were tunrned over. |
| September 2013 | Hail | Filer | - | One inch hail and heavy rain with street flooding was reported. |
| September 2013 | Flash Flood | Filer | - | Street flooding was reported in Filer. |
| May 2008 | Hail | Filer | - | A trained spotter reported one inch hail and wind gusts to 50 MPH. |
| May 1996 | Heavy Rain | Filer | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Flash Flood | Filer | - | no account filed |
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.
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 Filer | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1516426 | 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 395845. 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.



