Butts Point Creek Fire Lookout

Built in 1934. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2018.

From the record

“The Butts Creek Point Fire Lookout, in Idaho County, Idaho, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2018.”
Wikipedia article Butts Creek Point Fire Lookout, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 42 National Register listings published here for Idaho County · listed in 2018 · category: Building · built in 1934.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. Butts Creek Point, approx 40 mi NE of Salmon, ID; Frank Church - River of No Return Wilderness, Salmon, 83611
When was it listed? December 2018
Category. building
Census division. Elk City
When was it built? 1934
National Register reference number. 100002786 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

58 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 58 fires within 5 miles of Butts Point Creek Fire Lookout between 1992 and 2019, burning about 44,480 acres in total. 55 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	55
Recreation and ceremony	3

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
7 September 1998	Natural	under an acre	Salmon-Challis National Forest	FERN CREEK
3 September 2002	Natural	under an acre	Salmon-Challis National Forest	PROCTOR
24 September 1995	Natural	10 acres	Salmon-Challis National Forest	BAY CR.
8 August 2005	Natural	under an acre	Salmon-Challis National Forest	KITCHEN WFU
8 August 2004	Natural	50 acres	Salmon-Challis National Forest	SOUTH KITCHEN WFU
7 August 2003	Natural	2.0 acres	Salmon-Challis National Forest	GUN
7 August 1998	Natural	7,980 acres	Bitterroot National Forest	RAINIER CREEK
7 August 1998	Natural	under an acre	Salmon-Challis National Forest	WEST HORSE

Every fire recorded in Idaho County

Mines and quarries near this property

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Butts Point Creek Fire Lookout: 2 past producers, 2 prospects, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Garnet, Iron, Titanium, Titanium, Iron, Silver, Iron, Titanium. 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
Burnt Stump Group and Alta Group Lodes	Quartz, Feldspar	Occurrence	1961
Cunningham Bar Placer	Gold, Iron, Titanium	Prospect	Placer
Horse Creek Placers Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, and Horse Bar	Gold, Garnet, Iron, Titanium	Past Producer	1961
Kitchen Creek Bar Placer	Gold, Titanium, Iron, Silver	Past Producer	Placer
Proctor Bar Placer	Gold	Prospect	Placer

Every working 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100002786 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.