Chamberlain Ranger Station Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.

From the record

“The Chamberlain Ranger Station Historic District, also known as the Chamberlain Guard Station, is located in the Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness within Payette National Forest in Idaho County, Idaho. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.”
Wikipedia article Chamberlain Ranger Station Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 42 National Register listings published here for Idaho County · listed in 2004 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness, Payette National Forest, 83611
When was it listed? January 2004
Category. district
Census division. Elk City
National Register reference number. 03001388 - 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

17 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Chamberlain Ranger Station Historic District between 1994 and 2017, burning about 79,239 acres in total. 16 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	16
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
25 September 1997	Natural	1.0 acres	Payette National Forest	LODGEPOLE PT. PNF
21 September 1995	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Payette National Forest	GAME CR.
12 September 1996	Natural	under an acre	Payette National Forest	THREE BLAZE/PNF
12 September 1996	Natural	under an acre	Payette National Forest	UPPER TROUT PNF
12 September 1996	Natural	under an acre	Payette National Forest	GAME CREEK/PNF
7 August 1994	Natural	under an acre	Payette National Forest	RED TOP
20 August 2003	Natural	under an acre	Payette National Forest	QUEEN MEADOW
2 August 1999	Natural	4,233 acres	Payette National Forest	LODGEPOLE

Every fire recorded in Idaho County

Mines and quarries near this property

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Chamberlain Ranger Station Historic District: 5 prospects, 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Silver, Gold, Copper, Gold, Copper, Silver. 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
Chamberlain Basin	Gold, Copper, Silver	Occurrence	Galena, Pyrrhotite, Tremolite
Chamberlain Meadow Placer	Gold, Zirconium, REE	Prospect	Placer
Imperial Prospect	Silver, Gold, Lead, Zinc	Prospect	1910
Lodgepole Meadow Placer	Zirconium, Iron, Titanium	Prospect	Placer
Hamilton-Hillsman Claim	Silver, Copper, Gold	Prospect	1956
Stonebreaker Prospect	Gold, Silver, Copper	Occurrence	Vein
Eagle Prospect	Silver	Prospect	1906

Every working 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 03001388 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.