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Hammett, Idaho

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1947 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Glenns Ferry census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83627. The Survey maps it on the Hammett quadrangle. 332 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 2,536 feet above sea level.

Hammett within Elmore County

On record in Hammett

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 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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

96 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 96 fires within 5 miles of Hammett between 1992 and 2020, burning about 27,852 acres in total. 14 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
Equipment and vehicle use37
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Natural14
Power generation/transmission/distribution10
Railroad operations and maintenance10
Firearms and explosives use3
Debris and open burning3
Arson/incendiarism1
Fireworks1

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
29 September 2007Firearms and explosives use43 acresBoise DistrictSIMPKINS
22 September 1995Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreBoise DistrictMEDBURYHIL
2 September 2004Equipment and vehicle use6.0 acresBoise DistrictMP112I84
19 September 2000Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreBoise DistrictMP107 I84
16 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreBoise DistrictMM108 I84
16 September 2012Firearms and explosives use161 acresBoise DistrictHAMM
11 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresBoise DistrictMP116 2I84
10 September 1997Natural1.0 acresBoise DistrictWASH

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Elmore County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Hammett: 4 past producers, 1 unknown, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold, Titanium, Platinum, Geothermal. 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
Frank E. Wilson RanchGold, Titanium, PlatinumPast ProducerStream Placer
Old ResortGeothermalProspect
Snake River PlacersGoldPast Producer1862
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
St. Pit El8Sand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Elmore County

Storms near this place

2 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hammett in 2 storm reports between 2015 and 2019: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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
May 2019Tornado (EF0)Hammett-A photo of a tornado was posted on social media . The location is based on an interview with the spotter and the associated radar couplet.
August 2015Thunderstorm WindHammett-Idaho Power reported outages from thunderstorm winds around the Hammett area and near Mountain Home AFB.

Every storm recorded in Elmore 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
Glenns Ferry8.8 miles13
Reverse9.3 miles20
Emigrant Crossing11.9 miles17
King Hill14.5 miles17
Stout Crossing16.6 miles17
Mountain Home17.6 miles20
Sebree23.9 miles18
Dixie25.6 miles16

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 HammettAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5645790The 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 372973. 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.