Riggins High School

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2024.

From the record

One of 42 National Register listings published here for Idaho County · listed in 2024 · category: Building.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
Address. 121 N. Main Street, Riggins, 83549
When was it listed? October 2024
Category. building
Also known as. Public School Buildings in Idaho MPS
Census division. Riggins
National Register reference number. 100010901 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

86 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 86 fires within 5 miles of Riggins High School between 1992 and 2020, burning about 7,807 acres in total. 49 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	49
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	13
Debris and open burning	11
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Recreation and ceremony	4
Fireworks	2
Smoking	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
2 September 2018	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Nez Perce - Clearwater National Forests	GARRISON FLAT
18 September 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Nez Perce - Clearwater National Forests	not named
14 September 2010	Natural	75 acres	Nez Perce - Clearwater National Forests	WHISKEY BUTTE
11 September 1992	Natural	1.5 acres	Payette National Forest	not named
8 August 2019	Natural	60 acres	Nez Perce - Clearwater National Forests	RACE CREEK
8 August 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Nez Perce - Clearwater National Forests	MM 190
6 August 2003	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Nez Perce - Clearwater National Forests	CAPTAIN JOHN
5 August 2009	Natural	347 acres	Nez Perce - Clearwater National Forests	LIGHTNING CREEK

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 Riggins High School: 2 past producers, 2 unknowns, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Copper, Silica. 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
Hollenbeat Quartz Deposit	Silica	Occurrence	Vein
Unnamed Mine	Lead, Copper	Unknown
Bootlegger	Copper, Silver	Unknown
Frozen Assets Claim	Gold	Past Producer
Red Demon Mill	Gold, Silver	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Idaho County

Storms near this property

10 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Riggins, the town this property stands in, in 10 storm reports between 1997 and 2022: 4 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 heavy rain, 1 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
August 2022	Hail	Riggins	-	Minor damage to vegetation was reported, with lots of leaves down.
June 2012	Hail	Riggins	-	Broadcast media reported hail estimated at 1.25 inches in diameter.
June 2010	Flood	Riggins	-	The Little Salmon River washed over Highway 95 south of Riggins. Culvert failure let water and debris flow across Highway 13 near Stites.
June 2007	Hail	Riggins	-	A person reported hail the size of golf balls at Slate Creek along with strong winds and heavy rain.
May 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Riggins	-	Two reports of thunderstorm wind gusts 60-70 mph at Riggins. They broke off small tree limbs, and blew shingles and parts of roofs off structures. The storm lasted about an hour.
June 2004	Heavy Rain	Riggins	-	no account filed
August 2003	Flash Flood	Riggins	-	no account filed
May 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Riggins	-	no account filed
July 2001	Heavy Rain	Riggins	-	no account filed
July 2001	Hail	Riggins	-	no account filed

Every storm 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.

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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Riggins Motel	0.4 miles	2001
Aitken Barn	1.3 miles	1982
Yawwinma Traditional Cultural Property	4.1 miles	2017

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100010901 in Record Group 79.
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.
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.