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Nine Mile Cemetery

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2025.

From the record

One of 27 National Register listings published here for Shoshone County · listed in 2025 · category: Site.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • Address. 1001 Nine Mile Creek Road, Wallace, 83873
  • When was it listed? September 2025
  • Category. site
  • Also known as. Metal Mining in Idaho (1860-1977) MPS
  • Census division. Osburn-Wallace
  • National Register reference number. 100012276 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

67 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 67 fires within 5 miles of Nine Mile Cemetery between 1993 and 2020, burning about 34 acres in total. 30 started naturally. 2 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
Natural30
Recreation and ceremony13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Fireworks2
Arson/incendiarism2
Debris and open burning2
Smoking1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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 2006Naturalunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsLOST LAKE
7 September 1995Naturalunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsBAD TOM MTN
7 September 1995Naturalunder an acreCoeur d'Alene Field OfficeROCK CREEK
6 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIdaho Panhandle National ForestDUDLEY
6 September 1995Naturalunder an acreIdaho Panhandle National ForestBAD TOM
5 September 2013Naturalunder an acreIdaho Panhandle National ForestDUDLEY
26 September 2020Fireworksunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsMOUNT PULASKI
2 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.2 acresIdaho Department of LandsNUCKOLS GULCH

Every fire recorded in Shoshone County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 180 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 180 workings within 5 miles of Nine Mile Cemetery: 60 past producers, 56 occurrences, 35 prospects, 19 producers. 19 still produce. What was taken out: Silver, Silver, Lead, Lead, Zinc, 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
ArgentineSilver, Lead, Gold, CopperPast Producer
Bonanza Gold ProspectSilver, GoldProspectVein
Caladay MineSilver, Copper, Zinc, LeadOccurrence
Castle Rock MineCopper, Gold, SilverPast Producer
Coeur D'Alene DistrictGold, Zinc, Antimony, Lead, Silver, Copper, CadmiumProducer1878, 1884
Coeur D'Alene MinesCopper, Silver, Lead, Gold, Uranium, CobaltProducerVein
Coeur MineSilver, Antimony, Copper, Zinc, Lead, GoldPast Producer1885, 1892, 1998
East Coeur D'Alene DistrictZinc, Lead, Copper, SilverOccurrence
East Coeur D'Alene RegionLead, Silver, Zinc, Antimony, Gold, CopperProducer
Galena MineSilver, Zinc, Lead, Copper, Gold, Antimony, UraniumProducer1885, 1922

Every working recorded in Shoshone County

Storms near this property

3 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wallace, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 2000 and 2006: 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2002FloodWallace$15,000no account filed
May 2006Thunderstorm WindWallace$2,000no account filed
January 2000Thunderstorm WindWallace-Quarter size hail

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

6 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
Wallace 1910 Fire Memorialunder 500 feet1984
Wallace 1910 Fire Memorialunder 500 feet1984
Wallace Carnegie Library1.1 miles1981
Northern Pacific Railway Depot1.1 miles1976
Wallace Historic District1.2 miles1979
US Post Office-Wallace Main1.3 miles1989

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 100012276 in Record Group 79.
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.