Elk City Wagon Road-Vicory Gulch-Smith Grade Segment

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.

From the record

“The Elk City Wagon Road-Vicory Gulch-Smith Grade Segment in the Nez Perce National Forest in Idaho County, Idaho, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001. It is located in the vicinity of Elk City.”
Wikipedia article Elk City Wagon Road-Vicory Gulch-Smith Grade Segment, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 42 National Register listings published here for Idaho County · listed in 2001 · category: Site.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · 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 site as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Elk City Wagon Road-Vicory Gulch--Smith Grade Segment - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. Nez Perce National Forest, Elk City, 83530
When was it listed? May 2001
Category. site
Also known as. Elk City Wagon Road MPS
Census division. Elk City
National Register reference number. 01000536 - 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

124 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 124 fires within 5 miles of Elk City Wagon Road-Vicory Gulch-Smith Grade Segment between 1992 and 2020, burning about 30 acres in total. 117 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	117
Recreation and ceremony	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Smoking	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Debris and open burning	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 2017	Natural	under an acre	Nez Perce - Clearwater National Forests	NEW YORK
8 September 2013	Natural	under an acre	Nez Perce - Clearwater National Forests	LUCK
7 September 1998	Natural	under an acre	Nez Perce - Clearwater National Forests	STAR
5 September 2007	Natural	under an acre	Nez Perce - Clearwater National Forests	RABBIT
5 September 1995	Natural	under an acre	Nez Perce - Clearwater National Forests	NUGGET TRAIL
28 September 2017	Natural	under an acre	Nez Perce - Clearwater National Forests	SNOW
25 September 2009	Natural	under an acre	Nez Perce - Clearwater National Forests	SING LEE
18 September 1998	Natural	under an acre	Nez Perce - Clearwater National Forests	SADDLE

Every fire recorded in Idaho County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 42 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 42 workings within 5 miles of Elk City Wagon Road-Vicory Gulch-Smith Grade Segment: 26 past producers, 11 occurrences, 4 prospects, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Silver, Gold, Tungsten. 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
Anaconda	Gold, Silver, Lead, Zinc	Past Producer
Buffalo-Idaho Mine	Gold, Sulfides	Past Producer	1900
Center Star Mine	Silver, Gold, Lead, Zinc, Copper	Past Producer	1907
Golden Age Prospect	Gold, Lead, Silver, Thorium, Uranium	Past Producer	Vein
Iron Crown Mine	Gold, Zinc, Copper, Silver	Past Producer	1888
Lone Pine Mine	Gold, Silver, Lead, Zinc	Past Producer	1907, 1916
New York Mine	Gold, Zinc, Lead, Silver, Iron, Molybdenum, Tungsten	Past Producer	1900, 1915
Old Montana Placer	Gold, Silver, Copper	Past Producer	Placer
South Fork Mine	Silver, Gold, Lead, Copper	Past Producer	1905
Tenmile District	Gold, Tungsten	Occurrence	QUARTZ - SULFIDE VEINS

Every working recorded in Idaho County

Storms near this property

8 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Elk City, the town this property stands in, in 8 storm reports between 1995 and 2022: 6 hail, 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
August 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Elk City	-	Strong winds damaged trees which led to a power outage in the Elk City area.
June 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Elk City	-	no account filed
August 2006	Hail	Elk City	-	no account filed
July 2004	Hail	Elk City	-	no account filed
July 2004	Hail	Elk City	-	no account filed
July 2004	Hail	Elk City	-	no account filed
August 2003	Hail	Elk City	-	no account filed
April 1995	Hail	Elk City	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Idaho 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 01000536 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Idaho County	All 42 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.