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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.

Filer within Twin Falls County

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

Population over time

2 figures

Filer 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.

YearPeople Change
20102,508
20202,738+230 (+9%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 9 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

2 since 1992

Regional 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/undetermined2

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
7 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTwin Falls DistrictDEVIL-FIVE
21 July 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined64 acresIdaho Falls DistrictPIGEON COVE

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 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Snake River Placer DepositsGold, Iron, ChromiumPast Producer

Every working recorded in Twin Falls County

Storms near this place

11 since 1996

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 1998Thunderstorm WindFiler$200,000no account filed
July 1998Thunderstorm WindFiler$25,000A strong thunderstorm produced wind gusts which peeled the roof off of a business in Filer.
July 1996Thunderstorm WindFiler$15,000no account filed
May 1996Heavy RainFiler$5,000no account filed
May 2025Thunderstorm WindFiler-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 2013Thunderstorm WindFiler-A post on Facebook reported a roof was ripped off of a barn and irrigation pivots were tunrned over.
September 2013HailFiler-One inch hail and heavy rain with street flooding was reported.
September 2013Flash FloodFiler-Street flooding was reported in Filer.
May 2008HailFiler-A trained spotter reported one inch hail and wind gusts to 50 MPH.
May 1996Heavy RainFiler-no account filed
June 1996Flash FloodFiler-no account filed

Every storm 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Peavey2.6 miles9
Curry2.8 miles9
Knull4.1 miles9
Godwin4.3 miles9
Cedar5.4 miles9
Clover5.7 miles9
Berger7.2 miles7
Twin Falls7.8 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 FilerAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1516426The 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.