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Miner's Hat

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2021.

From the record

“The Miner's Hat, is a novelty building located at 300 East Cameron Ave. in Kellogg, Idaho, that is designed in the shape of a hat, specifically a protective miner's helmet. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2021.”

Wikipedia article Miner's Hat, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 27 National Register listings published here for Shoshone County · listed in 2021 · category: Building.

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. 300 East Cameron Ave., Kellogg, 83837
  • When was it listed? September 2021
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Kellogg
  • Architectural style. novelty architecture
  • National Register reference number. 100007007 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

93 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 93 fires within 5 miles of Miner's Hat between 1992 and 2020, burning about 211 acres in total. 50 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
Natural50
Recreation and ceremony18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Debris and open burning6
Arson/incendiarism3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
9 September 1993Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsWET HAT
4 September 2020Naturalunder an acreCataldo Area OfficeMONTGOMERY STRIKE
25 September 2001Naturalunder an acreCoeur d'Alene Field OfficeMONTGOMERY GULCH
22 September 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsPAGE
16 September 2001Naturalunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsPAPA BEAR
16 September 2001Naturalunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsBEAR
9 August 1994Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsSHOSHONE PARK
8 August 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCoeur d'Alene Field OfficeAIRPORT

Every fire recorded in Shoshone County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 123 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 123 workings within 5 miles of Miner's Hat: 48 past producers, 27 prospects, 25 occurrences, 14 producers. 16 still produce. What was taken out: Silver, Lead, Zinc, Lead, Zinc, Silver, Lead. 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
Benewah-Shoshone DepositIronOccurrence
Big Creek Apex MineSilver, Copper, Lead, AntimonyProducerVein
Bismark ProspectSilver, SulfidesProspectVein
Black Hawk MineZinc, Lead, Gold, SilverPast ProducerVein
Bunker ChanceLead, Zinc, CopperOccurrenceGalena, Pyrrhotite, Sphalerite
Bunker Chance MineLead, Zinc, Silver, CopperProducer1922
Bunker Hill MineLead, Zinc, Silver, Copper, Gold, Uranium, Antimony, Cadmium, CobaltPast Producer1885, 1886, 1991
Coeur D'Alene Big CreekSilver, Copper, Gold, Lead, ZincPast Producer
Consolidated SilverSilver, Lead, Copper, Gold, ZincPast Producer
Crescent MineSilver, Antimony, Copper, Lead, Zinc, GoldPast Producer1886, 1906, 1986

Every working recorded in Shoshone County

Storms near this property

5 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kellogg, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 1998 and 2024: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 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
July 1998Flash FloodKellogg$100,000over 2 inches in less than an hour lead to locally flooding in the city of Kellogg with I90 temporarily shut down between Kellogg and Cataldo. Main Street was flooding including many businesses, the library, the police department and the fire station.
January 1999Flash FloodKellogg$12,000Flooding on the Milo creek caused water to be backed up in a few basements of some homes.
September 2024Thunderstorm WindKellogg$500Tree branches broken. Young tree down. Shingles blown off roof. Time estimated based on radar. Max wind gust of 47 MPH was reported near Osburn.
September 2024Thunderstorm WindKellogg$500Tree branches broken. Young tree down. Shingles blown off roof. Time estimated based on radar. Max wind gust of 47 MPH was reported near Osburn.
August 2006Thunderstorm WindKellogg-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Shoshone 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

3 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
US Post Office-Kellogg Main0.4 miles1990
Kellogg Boy Scout Cabin0.7 miles2021
Pine Creek Baptist Church5.8 miles1982

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 100007007 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Shoshone CountyAll 27 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.