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Photograph of Axel Bohman House
Photograph by Ian Poellet, CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Axel Bohman House

Built in 1914. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.

From the record

“Main St. in Troy, Idaho, was built in 1914. It was the home of one of three brothers who immigrated from Sweden.”

Wikipedia article Axel Bohman House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 58 National Register listings published here for Latah County · listed in 2011 · category: Building · built in 1914.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Listed as. Bohman, Axel, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. 116 N. Main St., Troy, 83871
  • When was it listed? August 2011
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Troy-Juliaetta-Kendrick
  • When was it built? 1914
  • National Register reference number. 11000523 - 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

24 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Axel Bohman House between 1993 and 2020, burning about 83 acres in total. 7 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Natural7
Debris and open burning7
Equipment and vehicle use1
Fireworks1

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
6 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsFELTON CREEK
27 September 2020Fireworksunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsORCHARD LOOP
27 September 1993Debris and open burning5.0 acresIdaho Department of LandsSPRING VALLEY CR
24 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresIdaho Department of LandsCABIN
18 September 1996Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresIdaho Department of LandsRANDALL FLAT
17 September 1998Naturalunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsSPENCE ROAD #2
15 September 2000Debris and open burning2.0 acresIdaho Department of LandsBURNT RIDGE GRASS
6 August 2011Debris and open burning4.5 acresIdaho Department of LandsDRISCOLL RIDGE

Every fire recorded in Latah County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 18 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 18 workings within 5 miles of Axel Bohman House: 9 past producers, 4 producers, 3 occurrences, 2 unknowns. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Fire Clay (Refractory), Quartz. 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
Benson Clay DepositFire Clay (Refractory), KaolinPast Producer1913
East Moscow Mountain ProspectQuartzOccurrence
Gemmill ProspectCopper, Gold, SilverOccurrenceBornite, Chalcocite, Chalcopyrite, Covellite
Jensen PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Lt-106 PitStonePast Producer
McKeehan Clay MineKaolin, Fire Clay (Refractory)Past ProducerSurface
Moscow Clay PitFire Clay (Refractory)Past ProducerClay
O.K. OlsonSilver, Gold, CopperOccurrenceBornite, Chalcopyrite
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Latah County

Storms near this property

2 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Troy, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 1999 and 2003: 1 flash flood, 1 heavy rain. 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
February 1999Flash FloodTroy$1,000,000A combination of rapid snowmelt and heavy rain caused small streams to flood and roadways to pool with water especially across southern Latah County.
January 2003Heavy RainTroy$50,000Up to 3 inches of heavy rain caused a cottonwood tree to fall and crush a Ford Pickup truck and cause a small fire. Power was also out for 4 hours for about 100 residents. The rain also caused minor flooding in the Community Park and the mobile park both in Troy and Bovill.

Every storm recorded in Latah 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

5 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
Ole Bohman Houseunder 500 feet2013
Troy Downtown Historic District0.3 miles2010
Harry and Fern Campbell House0.4 miles2018
Troy Hospital0.4 miles2011
Hotel Rietmann0.5 miles2001

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 11000523 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Latah CountyAll 58 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.