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Humphrey, Idaho

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1983. It stands in the East Clark census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83423. It stands on Robbins Creek. The Survey maps it on the Spencer North quadrangle. It stands 6,529 feet above sea level.

Humphrey within Clark County

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

10 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Humphrey between 1993 and 2015, burning about 18 acres in total. 5 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
Natural5
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony1
Debris and open burning1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
9 September 2002Smoking2.0 acresIdaho Falls DistrictHUMPHREY
2 September 2012Naturalunder an acreCaribou-Targhee National ForestBOATMAN
18 September 2012Natural8.0 acresCaribou-Targhee National ForestCAMAS
9 August 2011Naturalunder an acreCaribou-Targhee National ForestBEAVER CREEK
17 August 2007Naturalunder an acreCaribou-Targhee National ForestRAIL
6 July 2001Naturalunder an acreCaribou-Targhee National ForestBEAVER CANYON
31 July 2015Power generation/transmission/distribution7.5 acresCaribou-Targhee National ForestBEAVER CREEK
28 July 2000Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreCaribou-Targhee National ForestSTODDARD CREEK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clark County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Humphrey: 2 producers, 1 unknown. 2 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Clark County

Storms near this place

2 since 2022

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Humphrey in 2 storm reports between 2022 and 2024: 2 thunderstorm wind. 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 2024Thunderstorm WindHumphrey-A 59 mph thunderstorm outflow wind measured at Monida Pass on interstate 15.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindHumphrey-A thunderstorm outflow wind gust of 63 mph was measured at the Monida Pass ITD mesonet site.

Every storm recorded in Clark 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
Old Beaver5.7 miles8
Spencer9.2 miles8
Highbridge14.2 miles8
Kilgore19.0 miles9
Idmon19.2 miles9
Dubois21.5 miles8
Eighteenmile21.8 miles9
Jones Crossing27.7 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 HumphreyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q14687082The 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 397805. 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.