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Greenwood School

Built in 1914 (American Craftsman). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2020.

From the record

“Greenwood School is a historic school building at 2398 East 990 South in Jerome County, Idaho, near the city of Hazelton. The school opened circa 1914 in the pioneer settlement of Greenwood, one of many communities formed after irrigation projects enabled farming in Idaho's Magic Valley.”

Wikipedia article Greenwood School (Hazelton, Idaho), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 64 National Register listings published here for Jerome County · listed in 2020 · category: Building · built in 1914, American Craftsman.

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

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 2398 East 990 South, Hazelton, 83335
  • When was it listed? July 2020
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Public School Buildings in Idaho MPS
  • Census division. Eden-Hazelton
  • When was it built? 1914
  • Architectural style. American Craftsman
  • National Register reference number. 100005364 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

42 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 42 fires within 5 miles of Greenwood School between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,964 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 3 were 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/undetermined13
Railroad operations and maintenance6
Recreation and ceremony6
Natural4
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Arson/incendiarism3
Equipment and vehicle use3
Fireworks2
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
2 September 2005Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresIdaho Falls DistrictCEDARPOINT
15 September 1995Power generation/transmission/distribution3.0 acresTwin Falls DistrictSCHODDE W
15 September 1995Arson/incendiarism200 acresTwin Falls DistrictSCHODDE N2
10 September 2004Arson/incendiarism2.5 acresIdaho Falls DistrictBOATDOCKS
1 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresTwin Falls DistrictMCHENRY
9 August 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined34 acresTwin Falls DistrictCALDRON LINN
8 August 2006Power generation/transmission/distribution2.0 acresIdaho Falls DistrictLAKE MILNER
4 August 2011Naturalunder an acreIdaho Falls DistrictLONE WOLF

Every fire recorded in Jerome County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Greenwood School: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Idaho Department of HigwaysSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Snake River PlacersGoldPast Producer1862
Snake River PlacersGoldPast ProducerPlacer

Every working recorded in Jerome County

Storms near this property

4 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hazelton, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 2008 and 2019: 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
October 2019Thunderstorm WindHazelton-A wind gust of 67 MPH was recorded at the ITD Valley interchange.
September 2019HailHazelton-One inch hail was reported at North Wilson, North of Hazelton, by a BLM fire crew.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindHazelton-Thunderstorm winds knocked down several trees and power lines and also damaged farm vehicles and irrigation pivots.
July 2008HailHazelton-KMVT relayed a report of large hail up to 1.75 inches in Hazelton.

Every storm recorded in Jerome 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

5 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
Marion and Julia Kelley House4.3 miles1983
Hazelton Presbyterian Church4.5 miles1991
Bert and Fay Havens House4.7 miles1983
L. Fay Shepard House6.8 miles1983
Caldron Linn7.9 miles1972

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 100005364 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Jerome CountyAll 64 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.