Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.
From the record
“The Jurden Henry Elfers Barn and Field is a historic site located on the south bank of John Day Creek, .33 miles (0.53 km) east of U.S. The barn and field were the site of a raid by members of the Nez Perce tribe in 1877.”
Wikipedia article Jurden Henry Elfers Barn and Field, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 42 National Register listings published here for Idaho County · listed in 2007 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.07000544- 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
77 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 77 fires within 5 miles of Jurden Henry Elfers Barn and Field
between 1992 and 2019, burning about 49,862 acres in total. 40 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
40
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
14
Equipment and vehicle use
9
Debris and open burning
4
Power generation/transmission/distribution
3
Fireworks
2
Smoking
2
Other causes
1
Arson/incendiarism
1
Recreation and ceremony
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
20 workings within 5 miles of Jurden Henry Elfers Barn and Field: 13 past producers, 4 unknowns, 2 prospects, 1 occurrence.
None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Stone, Dimension, Platinum. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Lucile, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 2019 and 2025: 2 flash flood, 1 hail, 1 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.
Hurricane force winds caused hundreds of trees, of all types, and diameters up to 2 feet wide, to be either uprooted or snapped in half along the track of the derecho from between Grangeville and Pollock, east and north towards Lolo Pass. Much of the Lochsa Corridor east of Kooskia sustained massive wind damage, and blocked access to many main and side roads. Multiple people were trapped for hours until people came to cut up the trees with chainsaws. Around 58 trees had to be cut along Forest Service road 221 southeast of Grangeville. A large willow tree fell on a house in Pollock and totaled it. A woman was injured from falling trees near Moose Creek where trees snapped off 20 feet above the ground and some damaged the ranger station there. Multiple vehicles, campers and infrastructure were either damaged or totaled at the Powell, Wendover, and Whitehouse campgrounds. The forest service estimates that 1 out of every 6 leave trees were uprooted in portions of their forest. Other impacts include: widespread power outages that lasted for days, multiple power poles damaged, at least 69 lightning-caused wildfires, 911 call center was inundated with 100s of calls, a motorcyclist was run off the road on U.S. Highway 12, and rock slides between mileposts 128 and 133 on U.S. 12. One of the lightning strikes triggered the Wye fire which turned into a large, 11,000 acre Moose Creek Complex. The emergency manager of Idaho County mentioned that some areas saw some of the worst damage they had ever experienced.
Mostly egg-sized hail with up to baseballs fell between Slate Creek and Riggins, Idaho and damaged greenhouse roofs, fences, pump house tanks, PVC pipelines, windshields, vehicles and orchards.
A very heavy downpour on Fiddle Creek, dropped approximately 0.75 inches of rain in one hour. The heavy rainfall triggered a substantial mud and debris flow that closed the highway near milepost 201 for nearly two days. Despite the intensity of the storm, no lightning occurred an unusual feature for the region. No vehicles were trapped.
A severe thunderstorm put down an inch and a half of rain in 30 minutes over the canyons near Lucile. This caused large debris flows in Fiddle Creek, Sheep Creek and Chair Creek that covered US-95 with up to a 4 feet deep of mud. More than a dozen vehicles became stuck in the mud. The highway was closed until the next day when one lane was opened up. The highway opened up totally by Monday, three days later. The flooding also damaged Cow Creek Road and John Day Road.
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.
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.
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