Striker, Idaho

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Kimberly census division. It lies in ZIP code area 83334. The Survey maps it on the Stricker Butte quadrangle.

Striker within Twin Falls County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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.

1955 USGS Twin Falls quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Twin Falls quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1965 USGS Stricker Butte quadrangle1:24000
1979 USGS Stricker Butte quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1992 USGS Rogerson quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

6 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Striker between 1998 and 2012, burning about 159 acres in total. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Natural	1
Recreation and ceremony	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
20 August 1999	Natural	1.0 acres	Twin Falls District	ROCKCREEK
7 July 1998	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Twin Falls District	BUFFALO
1 July 2001	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Twin Falls District	COLORADO
28 June 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Idaho Falls District	RURAL ASSIST 3
27 June 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	Idaho Falls District	DRY GULCH
26 June 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	150 acres	Idaho Falls District	RURAL ASSIST 2

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Rock Creek

Every fire recorded in Twin Falls County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Striker: 9 past producers, 3 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Geothermal, Stone, Dimension. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Quarry	Stone, Dimension	Past Producer
Geothermal Location	Geothermal	Occurrence
Geothermal Location	Geothermal	Occurrence
Geothermal Location	Geothermal	Occurrence
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Rock Creek	3.0 miles	9
Hansen	3.9 miles	8
Bills	4.1 miles	8
Kimberly	5.2 miles	8
Bickel (historical)	6.2 miles	8
Murtaugh	7.7 miles	8
McMillan	7.8 miles	9
Artesian City	8.6 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 395031. 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.