Fletcher, Idaho

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1924 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Craigmont census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83523. The Survey maps it on the Fletcher quadrangle. It stands 3,510 feet above sea level.

Fletcher within Lewis County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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.

1924 USGS Kamiah quadrangle1:125000
1955 USGS Pullman quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Pullman quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1967 USGS Fletcher quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Orofino quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

30 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Fletcher between 1992 and 2020, burning about 22,052 acres in total. 16 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
Natural	16
Debris and open burning	5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Arson/incendiarism	1
Other causes	1
Fireworks	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 September 2000	Natural	50 acres	Idaho Department of Lands	BIG CANYON
5 September 2010	Natural	under an acre	Clearwater Potlatch Timber Protective Association	MORRIS SADDLE
2 September 1997	Arson/incendiarism	10 acres	Idaho Department of Lands	OLD MELROSE
2 September 1995	Equipment and vehicle use	4.0 acres	Idaho Department of Lands	CITY LIMITS
18 September 2005	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Nez Perce Tribe	BARN BUCKET
15 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Craig Mountain Area Office	COPENHAGEN
12 September 2011	Fireworks	36 acres	Nez Perce Tribe	AIRPORT ROAD
26 August 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.5 acres	Idaho Department of Lands	COW FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lewis County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Fletcher: 4 producers. All of them 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
Craigmont 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 Lewis 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
Mohler	3.4 miles	8
Vollmer	4.4 miles	8
Craigmont	4.5 miles	8
Ilo (historical)	5.8 miles	8
Howard	6.0 miles	8
Craig Junction	6.6 miles	9
Clicks	6.6 miles	9
Reubens	7.3 miles	9

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 Fletcher	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q29000290	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 376154. 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.