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Hansen, Idaho

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Kimberly census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83334. The Survey maps it on the Kimberly quadrangle. 1,086 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,009 feet above sea level.

Hansen within Twin Falls County

On record in Hansen

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

Population over time

2 figures

Hansen fell from 1,144 to 1,086 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
20101,144
20201,086-58 (-5%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 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.

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 Hansen between 1992 and 2020, burning about 220 acres in total. 1 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 use5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Debris and open burning2
Recreation and ceremony1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Arson/incendiarism1
Natural1

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
28 September 2011Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTwin Falls DistrictVINEYARD 2
14 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTwin Falls DistrictOASIS
2 August 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreTwin Falls DistrictOASIS
19 August 1997Debris and open burning4.0 acresTwin Falls DistrictHANSENNE
14 August 2008Equipment and vehicle use156 acresTwin Falls DistrictDEVILS
7 July 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined12 acresIdaho Falls District3500 E
25 July 2005Natural35 acresTwin Falls DistrictRA 8
17 July 2005Equipment and vehicle use1.8 acresTwin Falls DistrictI84 MM181

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Twin Falls County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Hansen: 7 past producers, 3 occurrences, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
Borrow PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Borrow PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Snake River PlacersGoldPast Producer1862
Snake River PlacersGoldPast Producer1862
Snake River PlacersGoldPast Producer1862
Unnamed LocationGoldOccurrence
Unnamed LocationGoldOccurrence

Every working recorded in Twin Falls County

Storms near this place

2 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hansen in 2 storm reports between 2012 and 2019: 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
September 2019HailHansen-A picture of large hailstones in the Kimberly and Hanson areas was posted on Twitter.
September 2012HailHansen-Photo received by KMVT in Twin Falls indicated that at least half- dollar size hail occurred at 330 PM in the Rock Creek area near Hansen.

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
Bills0.8 miles8
Kimberly3.4 miles8
Striker3.9 miles9
Bickel (historical)4.8 miles8
McMillan6.4 miles9
Rock Creek6.8 miles9
Murtaugh7.8 miles8
Twin Falls8.8 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 HansenAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1517803The 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 396610. 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.