Toana Freight Wagon Road Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.

From the record

One of 40 National Register listings published here for Twin Falls County · listed in 2006 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Generally run S to N from Nevada-Idaho stateline to the Snake River, Castleford, 83321
When was it listed? November 2006
Category. district
Census division. West Salmon Falls
National Register reference number. 06001075 - 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

20 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Toana Freight Wagon Road Historic District between 1994 and 2020, burning about 2,631 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 1 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	10
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Debris and open burning	1
Arson/incendiarism	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
1 September 2004	Equipment and vehicle use	6.0 acres	Twin Falls District	SOSALMON
9 August 2006	Natural	1.0 acres	Twin Falls District	COW PIE
4 August 2004	Equipment and vehicle use	57 acres	Twin Falls District	ROSEWORTH
23 August 1999	Natural	320 acres	Boise District	ANTELOPE
22 August 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	200 acres	Twin Falls District	WHISKEY CR
18 August 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	16 acres	Boise District	DEEP CREEK
15 August 2001	Equipment and vehicle use	28 acres	Boise District	LILY GRADE
12 August 2004	Equipment and vehicle use	1.5 acres	Twin Falls District	LILY GRADE

Every fire recorded in Twin Falls County

Storms near this property

4 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Castleford, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 1996 and 2014: 2 heavy rain, 1 wildfire, 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
August 2014	Hail	Castleford	-	Large hail up to 1.75 inches was reported near Twin Falls, Castleford and Buhl.
August 2000	Wildfire	Castleford	-	A lightning ignited fire, named The Grass Fire, began on the afternoon of the 4th. This fire burned 42,880 acres before it was contained on the 9th. One outbuilding was destroyed and several others were threatened. Damage estimates were not available for this fire.
May 1996	Heavy Rain	Castleford	-	no account filed
June 1996	Heavy Rain	Castleford	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Twin Falls 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 06001075 in Record Group 79.
Twin Falls County	All 40 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.
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.