Campbell's Ferry

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.

From the record

“Campbell's Ferry was a ferry crossing on the Salmon River, located at Mile 148 of the river in the Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness. The ferry was part of the Three Blaze Trail, which connected Grangeville to Dixie, Idaho, to the Monumental Creek Trail at Thunder Mountain.”
Wikipedia article Campbell's Ferry, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 42 National Register listings published here for Idaho County · listed in 2007 · 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

Address. SE bank of Salmon River at Mile 148; Frank Church River of No Return Wilderness, Riggins, 83611
When was it listed? February 2007
Category. district
Census division. Elk City
National Register reference number. 07000037 - 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

73 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 73 fires within 5 miles of Campbell's Ferry between 1992 and 2019, burning about 19,632 acres in total. 71 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	71
Other causes	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 1997	Natural	7.0 acres	Payette National Forest	TROUT PNF
5 September 2003	Natural	under an acre	Payette National Forest	LEMHI POINT
3 September 2011	Natural	490 acres	Payette National Forest	BURNT KNOB
17 September 2001	Natural	under an acre	Nez Perce - Clearwater National Forests	ELKHORN
16 September 2001	Natural	under an acre	Payette National Forest	ELKHORN
15 September 2006	Natural	under an acre	Nez Perce - Clearwater National Forests	RABBIT
15 September 1992	Natural	under an acre	Nez Perce - Clearwater National Forests	not named
15 September 1992	Natural	under an acre	Nez Perce - Clearwater National Forests	not named

Every fire recorded in Idaho County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Campbell's Ferry: 6 occurrences, 6 past producers, 1 unknown, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Iron, Titanium, Garnet, Iron, Titanium, Titanium, Garnet, Iron, 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
Big Mallard Bar	Gold, Garnet, Titanium, Iron	Past Producer	Placer
Churchill Creek Prospect	Silver	Occurrence	Silver
Hermit Hanks Prospect	Copper, Zinc, Antimony, Lead	Prospect
Moore Bar	Gold, Titanium, Garnet, Iron, Silver	Past Producer	Placer
Gaines Bar	Gold, Garnet, Iron, Titanium	Past Producer	Placer
Gold Dust Sonny Placer	Gold, Garnet, Iron, Titanium	Past Producer	1957
Groundhog Bar Placer	Gold, Garnet, Iron, Titanium	Past Producer	Placer
Yellow Pine Bar	Gold, Garnet, Iron, Titanium	Past Producer	Placer
Hermit Hanks Bar Placer	Gold, Iron, Titanium	Occurrence	Placer
Julie Creek Bar Placer	Gold, Iron, Titanium	Occurrence	Placer

Every working recorded in Idaho County

Storms near this property

10 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Riggins, the town this property stands in, in 10 storm reports between 1997 and 2022: 4 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 heavy rain, 1 flash flood. 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	Hail	Riggins	-	Minor damage to vegetation was reported, with lots of leaves down.
June 2012	Hail	Riggins	-	Broadcast media reported hail estimated at 1.25 inches in diameter.
June 2010	Flood	Riggins	-	The Little Salmon River washed over Highway 95 south of Riggins. Culvert failure let water and debris flow across Highway 13 near Stites.
June 2007	Hail	Riggins	-	A person reported hail the size of golf balls at Slate Creek along with strong winds and heavy rain.
May 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Riggins	-	Two reports of thunderstorm wind gusts 60-70 mph at Riggins. They broke off small tree limbs, and blew shingles and parts of roofs off structures. The storm lasted about an hour.
June 2004	Heavy Rain	Riggins	-	no account filed
August 2003	Flash Flood	Riggins	-	no account filed
May 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Riggins	-	no account filed
July 2001	Heavy Rain	Riggins	-	no account filed
July 2001	Hail	Riggins	-	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.

Listed places nearby

1 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	Jim Moore Place	0.4 miles	1978

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 07000037 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.