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Photograph of Salmon Falls Dam
Photograph by Famartin, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Salmon Falls Dam

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.

From the record

One of 40 National Register listings published here for Twin Falls County · listed in 2009 · category: Structure.

Sources: 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 7 structuress, 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. Three Creek Hwy, Rogerson
  • When was it listed? May 2009
  • Category. structure
  • Census division. Hollister
  • National Register reference number. 09000328 - 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

8 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Salmon Falls Dam between 1998 and 2014, burning about 1,369 acres in total. 3 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
Natural3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Recreation and ceremony1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Debris and open burning1

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
6 September 1998Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreTwin Falls DistrictSALFALLS
4 September 2006Natural1,258 acresTwin Falls DistrictREYNOLDS
11 September 1999Equipment and vehicle use96 acresTwin Falls District3WROGERSON
8 August 2008Natural3.0 acresIdaho Falls DistrictSALMON FALLS 1
8 August 2008Naturalunder an acreIdaho Falls DistrictSALMON FALLS 2
5 July 2014Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreIdaho Falls DistrictDREXLER
2 July 2011Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreIdaho Falls DistrictSALMON DAM
6 June 2006Debris and open burning11 acresTwin Falls DistrictANTELOPE SPRINGS

Every fire recorded in Twin Falls County

Storms near this property

10 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rogerson, the town this property stands in, in 10 storm reports between 1996 and 2017: 5 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2017Thunderstorm WindRogerson-Social and local media reported trees and power lines down around Buhl and Filer.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindRogerson-The local newspaper and a trained spotter reported large pine trees down and a large section of a motel roof was peeled off.
June 2015HailRogerson-A trained spotter reported hail starting as 1 inch then decreasing to half inch hail.
September 1997HailRogerson-A weather spotter in Rogerson reported 1.25 inch hail with a severe thunderstorm. No damage reported.
July 2006Flash FloodRogerson-no account filed
May 2005HailRogerson-no account filed
July 2002Thunderstorm WindRogerson-no account filed
July 1996Heavy RainRogerson-no account filed
June 1996HailRogerson-no account filed
June 1996HailRogerson-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.

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 PropertyDistance Listed
Rogerson School7.3 miles2019

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 09000328 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Twin Falls CountyAll 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.