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Hamer, Idaho

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Mud Lake-Hamer census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83425. The Survey maps it on the Hamer quadrangle. 83 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,803 feet above sea level.

Hamer within Jefferson County

Population over time

2 figures

Hamer grew from 48 to 83 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
201048
202083+35 (+73%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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.

Fires near this place

15 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Hamer between 1992 and 2020, burning about 8,233 acres in total. 6 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
Natural6
Debris and open burning3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
5 August 2010Natural31 acresIdaho Falls DistrictBEACON BUTTE
28 August 1992Power generation/transmission/distribution30 acresCamas National Wildlife RefugePWRLNE
17 August 2000Power generation/transmission/distribution7,156 acresIdaho Falls DistrictCAMAS
12 August 2003Natural135 acresCamas National Wildlife RefugeINDEPENDCE
12 August 2003Natural252 acresIdaho Falls DistrictBUCKSPRING
3 July 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined117 acresIdaho Falls DistrictSAGE JUNCTION
28 July 1996Natural115 acresCamas National Wildlife RefugeRAT FARM
18 July 2017Natural2.5 acresCamas National Wildlife RefugeSTARLING

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Hamer: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Borrow PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Jefferson County

Storms near this place

15 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hamer in 15 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 13 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 wildfire. 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
August 2023Thunderstorm WindHamer$2,000Power lines down along Camas Creek Rd near Hamer Elementary School.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindHamer-A 59 mph thunderstorm outflow wind measured at the Hamer ARL FRD site.
May 2020Thunderstorm WindHamer-A 64 mph wind gust reported in Hamer.
April 2011Thunderstorm WindHamer-Sixty-one mph wind gust at Hamer.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindHamer-Thunderstorm winds of 59 mph mesausred in Hamer.
June 2004Thunderstorm WindHamer-Roof blown of building and downed power lines.
June 2004Thunderstorm WindHamer-Many tree branches broken off trees in Hamer.
September 1995HailHamer-A severe thunderstorm dropped hail at the United States Fish and Wildlife in Jefferson County.
May 2005Thunderstorm WindHamer-no account filed
June 2005Thunderstorm WindHamer-no account filed
August 2005Thunderstorm WindHamer-no account filed
July 2004Thunderstorm WindHamer-no account filed
August 2004Thunderstorm WindHamer-no account filed
July 2002Thunderstorm WindHamer-no account filed
August 2000WildfireHamer-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jefferson 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
Hawgood4.9 miles9
Camas5.6 miles9
Sage Junction6.7 miles9
Terreton13.6 miles9
Roberts14.9 miles14
Level (historical)15.3 miles9
Mud Lake15.5 miles9
Monteview17.8 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 HamerAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1512549The 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 399904. 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.