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One of 167 National Register listings published here for Ada County · listed in 2018 · category: District.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article
Firebird Raceway
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2018.
The listing
- Address. 8551 ID 16, Eagle, 83616
- When was it listed? December 2018
- Category. district
- Census division. Eagle
- National Register reference number. 100003243 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
37 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 37 fires within 5 miles of Firebird Raceway between 1993 and 2020, burning about 11,069 acres in total. 8 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 15 |
| Natural | 8 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 6 |
| Debris and open burning | 4 |
| Firearms and explosives use | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Fireworks | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 September 2007 | Equipment and vehicle use | 67 acres | Boise District | JACKS |
| 9 August 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Boise District | RA 6 ADA CO |
| 7 August 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Boise District | RA7 CANYON CO |
| 30 August 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 115 acres | Boise District | DEEP CANYON |
| 3 August 2014 | Firearms and explosives use | 19 acres | Boise District | MM4 HWY16 |
| 3 August 1993 | Debris and open burning | 20 acres | Boise District | FREEZE OUT |
| 26 August 2002 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Boise District | HIGHWAY 16 |
| 24 August 1996 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Boise District | FIREBIRD |
Mines and quarries near this property
9 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Firebird Raceway: 4 past producers, 4 producers, 1 occurrence. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Silica, Manganese. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gold Dollar Mineral Claims | Manganese | Occurrence | ||
| Gem Silica Company Deposit | Silica | Past Producer | 1946 | |
| Gem Silica Sand Deposit | Silica, Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Longhair Mine No 1 | Stone | Producer | ||
| Longhair Mine No 2 | Stone | Producer | ||
| Pretty Patty | Stone | Producer | ||
| Barnes Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
7 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Eagle, the town this property stands in, in 7 storm reports between 1997 and 2023: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 wildfire, 1 tornado, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Eagle | - | Several trees on a residential property were knocked down from thunderstorm outflow. |
| June 2023 | Flood | Eagle | - | Street flooding with eight inches of standing water over the roads in Eagle was reported. |
| June 2022 | Heavy Rain | Eagle | - | A social media report of 1.17 inches of rainfall on the night of June 5th occurred with a measured rainfall rate of 3.19 per hour. |
| June 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Eagle | - | Social Media reported trees down from Eagle to Boise and throughout the Treasure Valley. |
| April 2012 | Hail | Eagle | - | A trained spotter reported half dollar size hail and wind gusts to 75 MPH. |
| August 2000 | Tornado (F0) | Eagle | - | no account filed |
| October 1997 | Wildfire | Eagle | - | no account filed |
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
6 within 8 milesOther 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sonner-Osier Farmstead Historic District | 4.5 miles | 2017 | |
 | Star Camp | 5.3 miles | 2005 |
 | Charles and Martha Villeneuve House | 5.6 miles | 1990 |
 | Eagle Adventist Schoolhouse | 6.5 miles | 1980 |
 | O. F. Short House | 7.0 miles | 1980 |
 | Bushnell-Fisher House | 7.4 miles | 2011 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100003243 in Record Group 79. |
| Wikipedia article | Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA. |
| Ada County | All 167 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.