BlockBefore

Spencer, 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 83446. It lies near Huntley Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Spencer South quadrangle. 31 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 5,909 feet above sea level.

Spencer within Clark County

On record in Spencer

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

Spencer fell from 37 to 31 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
201037
202031-6 (-16%)

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

11 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Spencer between 1993 and 2019, burning about 74 acres in total. 2 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
Recreation and ceremony3
Natural2
Smoking2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Debris and open burning1

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
13 September 2000Naturalunder an acreCaribou-Targhee National ForestDRY
28 August 1997Recreation and ceremony55 acresCaribou-Targhee National ForestDRY CREEK
26 August 1999Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresIdaho Falls DistrictRAILROAD
13 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined17 acresIdaho Falls DistrictCHINA POINT
8 July 2004Naturalunder an acreCaribou-Targhee National ForestSIGNAL
3 July 2010Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreCaribou-Targhee National ForestWEST DRY CREEK
28 July 2000Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreCaribou-Targhee National ForestSTODDARD CREEK
12 July 1996Smokingunder an acreCaribou-Targhee National ForestCORRAL

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clark 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 Spencer: 3 past producers, 2 producers, 1 prospect. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gemstone, Antimony, Silver, Gold. 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
Lone Pine GroupAntimony, Silver, GoldProspect
Opal Mountain MineGemstonePast Producer
Spencer Opal MineSemiprecious GemstoneProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Clark County

Storms near this place

7 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Spencer in 7 storm reports between 2001 and 2025: 2 flash flood, 2 flood, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 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
February 2017FloodSpencer$67,000Some minor flooding and road damage occurred from a combination of snow melt with the extensive warmup during the month.
March 2017FloodSpencer$10,000Minor sheet flooding from snow melt continued in March but effects were minimal and mainly limited to road damage and some field flooding.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindSpencer-A 60 mph thunderstorm outflow measured at the Blue Dome mesonet site.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindSpencer-A 64 mph wind gust was measured at the China Point ITD site.
August 2014HailSpencer-One inch hail reported in Spencer.
July 2013Flash FloodSpencer-Heavy rain in thunderstorms caused flooding of one house south of Spencer.
July 2001Flash FloodSpencer-Localized flooding occurred from 1.5 to 2.0 inches of rain in 2 hours in the northern portions of the town of Spencer.

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 Beaver3.5 miles8
Highbridge5.5 miles8
Humphrey9.2 miles8
Dubois12.9 miles8
Idmon14.6 miles9
Eighteenmile15.6 miles9
Kilgore15.8 miles9
Jones Crossing19.0 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 SpencerAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1519718The 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 398161. 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.