Big Creek Commissary

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.

From the record

One of 25 National Register listings published here for Valley County · listed in 2000 · category: Building.

Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. Yellow Pine, Payette National Forest, Big Creek, 83677
When was it listed? April 2000
Category. building
Census division. Stibnite
National Register reference number. 00000327 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

26 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of Big Creek Commissary between 1992 and 2019, burning about 6,315 acres in total. 23 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
Natural	23
Debris and open burning	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Smoking	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
8 September 2000	Natural	under an acre	Payette National Forest	SMITH CREEK
4 September 1994	Natural	1.0 acres	Payette National Forest	SMITH CREEK
25 September 1994	Smoking	under an acre	Payette National Forest	ESTEP
18 September 1995	Natural	2.5 acres	Payette National Forest	SMITH CREEK
16 September 1996	Natural	180 acres	Payette National Forest	LITTLE MARBLE PNF
16 September 1995	Natural	1.0 acres	Payette National Forest	LOGAN
9 August 2006	Natural	2.0 acres	Payette National Forest	SMITH CREEK
8 August 2006	Natural	25 acres	Payette National Forest	BIG CREEK

Every fire recorded in Valley County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 101 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 101 workings within 5 miles of Big Creek Commissary: 56 occurrences, 20 prospects, 17 past producers, 4 unknowns. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Tungsten, Silver, Antimony. 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	Recorded
Ancient Age	Iron	Prospect
Antimony Rainbow	Antimony, Gold, Lead, Silver	Producer
Antimony Rainbow Group Mine	Antimony, Copper, Tungsten, Gold, Mercury, Silver	Producer	Argentite, Chalcopyrite, Cinnabar, Fluorite, Huebnerite, Scheelite, Sphalerite, Stibnite, Tetrahedrite
Beaver Creek Placer	Gold, Titanium, Iron	Occurrence	Placer
Big Creek District	Fluorine-Fluorite, Zinc, Lead, Tungsten	Occurrence	QUARTZ VEINS AND LENSES
Big Creek Placers	Gold, Zirconium, Tungsten, Titanium	Past Producer
Blue Stone Prospect	Silver, Copper, Gold, Lead	Occurrence	1969
Blue Stone Prospect	Silver, Zinc, Gold, Lead, Copper	Prospect
Camp Bird No. 1	Zinc, Copper, Silver, Gold, Lead	Occurrence
Copper Hill	Antimony, Garnet	Prospect

Every working recorded in Valley County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 00000327 in Record Group 79.
Valley County	All 25 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
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.