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Milwaukee Chicago St. Paul and Pacific Railroad Company Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.

From the record

“Paul and Pacific Railroad Company Historic District consists of the historic right-of-way of the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad in the Bitterroot Mountains from East Portal, Montana, to the mouth of Loop Creek, Idaho, a distance of 14.5 miles (23.3 km).”

Wikipedia article Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad Company Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 27 National Register listings published here for Shoshone County · listed in 2000 · category: District.

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

The listing

  • Listed as. Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad Company Historic District - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. Idaho Panhandle National Forest, Avery
  • When was it listed? October 2000
  • Category. district
  • Census division. Avery-Clarkia
  • National Register reference number. 00001269 - 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

34 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 34 fires within 5 miles of Milwaukee Chicago St. Paul and Pacific Railroad Company Historic District between 1993 and 2017, burning about 28 acres in total. 29 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
Natural29
Recreation and ceremony2
Debris and open burning1
Smoking1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
21 September 2001Naturalunder an acreIdaho Panhandle National ForestOLENTANGE CREEK #16
19 September 1999Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreLolo National ForestST. COPPER
19 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreIdaho Panhandle National ForestLOOP CREEK 8
17 September 2001Naturalunder an acreIdaho Panhandle National ForestTURKEY
17 September 2001Naturalunder an acreIdaho Panhandle National ForestWARD CREEK
17 September 1998Naturalunder an acreLolo National ForestCOPPER GULCH
16 September 2009Natural7.0 acresIdaho Panhandle National ForestWONDERFUL
13 September 2004Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreIdaho Panhandle National ForestMOSS CREEK

Every fire recorded in Shoshone County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 41 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 41 workings within 5 miles of Milwaukee Chicago St. Paul and Pacific Railroad Company Historic District: 21 occurrences, 9 past producers, 6 prospects, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Copper, Gold, Lead, Gold, Copper. 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
Amazon - Dixie MineCopper, Lead, Zinc, Silver, GoldPast ProducerGold, Silver
Amazon-Dixie MineCopper, Zinc, LeadProspect
Big ElkGold, Silver, CopperOccurrence
Big Elk MineLead, Copper, Gold, SilverProducerChalcopyrite, Gold, Silver
Crown Silver GroupZinc, Copper, LeadProspect
Fourth of July Silver ProspectLead, SilverProspectVein
Hansy Copper and Gold MineCopper, Zinc, SilverOccurrenceChalcopyrite, Quartz, Tetrahedrite
Inland MineCopper, LeadProducerVein
MonitorLead, Copper, Gold, Silver, ZincPast Producer
Monitor MineSilver, Zinc, Lead, Copper, GoldPast Producer1885, 1892, 1977

Every working recorded in Shoshone County

Storms near this property

1 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Avery, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2016: 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
June 2016HailAvery-A member of the public reported 1 inch size hail covering the ground with estimated 45 mph winds at Avery, Idaho.

Every storm recorded in Shoshone 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.

Listed places nearby

3 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Grand Forks1.1 miles1984
Bullion Tunnel2.7 miles1984
Cedar Snags4.5 miles1984

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 00001269 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Shoshone CountyAll 27 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.
  • 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.