Indian Mountain Fire Lookout

Built in 1933. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2022.

From the record

One of 7 National Register listings published here for Adams County · listed in 2022 · category: Building · built in 1933.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. National Forest Road 243, 12 miles SE of Council, Idaho, Payette National Forest, Council
When was it listed? August 2022
Category. building
Census division. Council
When was it built? 1933
National Register reference number. 100007977 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

77 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 77 fires within 5 miles of Indian Mountain Fire Lookout between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,408 acres in total. 53 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	53
Recreation and ceremony	12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Debris and open burning	4
Equipment and vehicle use	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
8 September 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Payette National Forest	not named
3 September 2000	Natural	under an acre	Payette National Forest	CABIN
3 September 1994	Natural	under an acre	Boise National Forest	not named
3 September 1994	Natural	under an acre	Payette National Forest	BOUNDARY
3 September 1994	Natural	1.0 acres	Payette National Forest	POISON TIMBER
29 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Payette National Forest	MICA FIRE
21 September 2005	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Payette National Forest	ROAD 214
2 September 1994	Natural	under an acre	Idaho Department of Lands	WEST SIDE

Every fire recorded in Adams 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 Indian Mountain Fire Lookout: 2 past producers, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Mica, Feldspar, Feldspar, Mica. 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
Mica Queen Mine	Mica, Feldspar	Past Producer	1906
Stites Prospect	Feldspar, Mica	Prospect	Feldspar, Muscovite
Unknown	Stone	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Adams County

Storms near this property

6 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Council, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 1997 and 2012: 3 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Council	$50,000	Adams County Emergency Manager reported the roof was blown off of a church in Council including roof damage to other homes in the area. Also, many large trees were down along a path into the northeast part of the county.
June 2012	Hail	Council	-	Local media reported 1.00 inch hail in and around Council.
June 2010	Flood	Council	-	Flooding occurred across portions of Highway 95 and a trained spotter near Glendale reported over 1.30 inches of rain during an 11 hour period and flooding into fields along the Weiser River.
May 1998	Hail	Council	-	A severe thunderstorm produced 3/4 inch hail at Council.
May 1997	Hail	Council	-	A severe thunderstorm formed over the Central Mountains and produced 3/4 inch hail .
September 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Council	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Adams 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 100007977 in Record Group 79.
Adams County	All 7 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.