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Tolo Lake
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.
From the record
“Tolo Lake is a shallow, natural lake in camas prairie in Idaho County, Idaho, United States. An area of about 206 acres (83 ha) including the lake was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.”
Wikipedia article Tolo Lake, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 42 National Register listings published here for Idaho County · listed in 2011 · category: Site.
National Register reference number.10001200- the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.
Fires near this property
32 since 1993
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 32 fires within 5 miles of Tolo Lake
between 1993 and 2020, burning about 4,453 acres in total. 7 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/undetermined
9
Natural
7
Debris and open burning
5
Arson/incendiarism
3
Equipment and vehicle use
3
Recreation and ceremony
2
Fireworks
1
Misuse of fire by a minor
1
Smoking
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
10 workings within 5 miles of Tolo Lake: 5 occurrences, 2 past producers, 1 unknown, 1 prospect.
1 still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Copper, Gold. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Grangeville, the town this property stands in, in 17 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 10 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud.
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.
Severe thunderstorms hit Idaho once again bringing large hail, gusty winds and some brief heavy rain. Wind and hail damage occured in several locations. Gusts to 70 mph in Butte and Clark Counties tipped over two tractor-semitrailer. In Rathdrum property damage was estimated at $1 million. New Plymouth suffered crop damage. One man was injured by 1.5 inch hail near Black Creek along Interstate 84. Due to heavy rains the Big Wood River rose to flood stage flooding some riverfront property near Ketchum.
A strong thunderstorm formed and moved toward Grangeville. Radar estimated maximum size hail was a little over an inch. The public reported nickel size hail with the storm.
A severe thunderstorm moved over southern portions of Grangeville, Idaho and areas along U.S. Highway 95 southwest of the city. Large amounts of hail created hazardous driving conditions, causing a vehicle to slide off the highway. Ping-pong-sized hail was reported along the highway, 5 miles southwest of Grangeville, with nickel-sized hail being reported in the city itself.
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
2 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.
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.
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