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One of 8 National Register listings published here for Clearwater County · listed in 2025 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Weippe Community Hall
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2025.
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. 216 East First Street, Weippe
- When was it listed? September 2025
- Category. building
- National Register reference number. 100012272 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
98 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 98 fires within 5 miles of Weippe Community Hall between 1992 and 2020, burning about 666 acres in total. 94 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 | 94 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Firearms and explosives 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 1999 | Natural | 1.5 acres | Nez Perce - Clearwater National Forests | GLADE CREEK |
| 5 September 2013 | Natural | under an acre | Nez Perce - Clearwater National Forests | LOWELL |
| 29 September 2001 | Natural | under an acre | Nez Perce - Clearwater National Forests | MYSTERY |
| 18 September 2007 | Natural | under an acre | Nez Perce - Clearwater National Forests | RYE |
| 9 August 2015 | Natural | 9.0 acres | Nez Perce - Clearwater National Forests | MYSTERY |
| 7 August 1998 | Natural | 10 acres | Nez Perce - Clearwater National Forests | GLADE CREEK |
| 6 August 2020 | Natural | under an acre | Nez Perce - Clearwater National Forests | MYSTERY |
| 6 August 2010 | Natural | under an acre | Nez Perce - Clearwater National Forests | 5542 ROAD |
Mines and quarries near this property
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Weippe Community Hall: 1 occurrence, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Gold, Silver. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Canyon Creek | Gold, Silver | Past Producer | ||
| Smith Gold Mine | Gold, Silver | Occurrence |
Storms near this property
12 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Weippe, the town this property stands in, in 12 storm reports between 1997 and 2022: 7 hail, 4 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2014 | Hail | Weippe | $104,000 | A farmer reported major property and crop damage due to both large hail and wind. The property damage included 5 rental home roofs, siding from 3 homes, several windows, and 12 garage doors that either were dented or destroyed. Approximately 75% of his spring wheat crop, approximately 450 acres, was decimated by the wind and hail. In the 67 years that he has lived there, there was only one other storm that was comparable to this one. Back in 1963, a similar storm decimated his dad's crops. |
| August 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Weippe | $17,000 | A farmer reported around 12 trees (pine and red fir) broke between 6 and 16 feet above the ground. A bull pine near 3 feet in diameter at the base, broke off around 6 feet from the ground and destroyed a trailer house. |
| April 2018 | Flood | Weippe | $5,000 | Very heavy rainfall with amounts ranging from 1 to 3 inches combined with snow melt over a several day period led to overland flooding with rock, mud and water along portions of Clear Creek Road, Sally Ann Road, and on State Highway 13 along the South Fork Clearwater River halfway between Stites and Harpster. Plugged culverts were common. |
| August 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Weippe | - | Strong winds downed trees, leading to an extended power outage in the Glenwood area. |
| June 2022 | Hail | Weippe | - | A person on Facebook reported large hail south of Weippe. |
| July 2019 | Hail | Weippe | - | Nickel to quarter-sized hail was reported in the town of Harpster, Idaho. |
| August 2014 | Hail | Weippe | - | The USDA reported that at least 400 acres of hard red spring wheat were destroyed and 700 acres were damaged. They also reported that 183.6 acres of soft wheat were destroyed and 189.2 acres were damaged. All in all, the total crop damage tallied at $425,000. |
| June 2012 | Hail | Weippe | - | A spotter measured hail of 1.75 inch diameter. |
| June 2012 | Hail | Weippe | - | A spotter estimated hail at 1.75 inches. In addition 1.25 inches of rain fell in 1.5 hours. |
| May 2006 | Hail | Weippe | - | no account filed |
| August 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Weippe | - | no account filed |
| July 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Weippe | - | no account filed |
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 100012272 in Record Group 79. |
| Clearwater County | All 8 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.