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Photograph of Star Camp
Photograph by Tamanoeconomico, CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Star Camp

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.

From the record

“Star Camp in Star, Idaho, also known as Friends Community Center, is a meeting facility and tabernacle operated by Quakers and constructed in 1949. The facility is part of a 5-acre parcel organized as a camp meeting area in 1941.”

Wikipedia article Star Camp (Star, Idaho), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 167 National Register listings published here for Ada County · listed in 2005 · category: Building.

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

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. N. Star Rd. and W. 3rd St., Star, 83669
  • When was it listed? April 2005
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Eagle
  • National Register reference number. 05000344 - 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

14 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Star Camp between 1994 and 2019, burning about 559 acres in total. None 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/undetermined9
Firearms and explosives use2
Debris and open burning1
Smoking1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
7 August 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresBoise DistrictRA7 CANYON CO
30 August 2011Equipment and vehicle use115 acresBoise DistrictDEEP CANYON
3 August 2014Firearms and explosives use19 acresBoise DistrictMM4 HWY16
24 August 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresBoise DistrictFIREBIRD
5 July 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined21 acresBoise DistrictRA6 CANYON CO
30 July 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined13 acresBoise DistrictFIREBIRD
28 July 2000Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreBoise DistrictMP4 HWY16
22 July 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresBoise DistrictRA 2 ADA CO

Every fire recorded in Ada County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Star Camp: 8 past producers, 1 unknown, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Manganese. 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
Gold Dollar Mineral ClaimsManganeseOccurrence
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Ada County

Storms near this property

4 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Star, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 2 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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
April 1995Thunderstorm WindStar$500,000no account filed
May 2023Tornado (EF0)Star-Several photos of a land spout near Highway 16 and Broken Arrow Lane.
March 2016HailStar-A NWS employee reported one inch hail at Star, Idaho.
May 2015HailStar-Largest hail 1.5 inches and smallest about a penny at the intersection of Floating Feather Road and Pollard Lane. Reported on social media.

Every storm recorded in Ada 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

6 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
Charles and Martha Villeneuve House2.3 miles1990
Sonner-Osier Farmstead Historic District4.8 miles2017
Firebird Raceway5.3 miles2018
Eagle Adventist Schoolhouse6.2 miles1980
O. F. Short House6.6 miles1980
Bushnell-Fisher House6.8 miles2011

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 05000344 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Ada CountyAll 167 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.