Russell Lawrence Farmstead

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.

From the record

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

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

The listing

Listed as. Lawrence, Russell, Farmstead - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 5471 ID 8, Deary, 83823
When was it listed? November 2011
Category. building
Also known as. Agricultural Properties of Latah County, Idaho MPS
Census division. Deary-Bovill
National Register reference number. 11000862 - 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

39 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 39 fires within 5 miles of Russell Lawrence Farmstead between 1992 and 2020, burning about 63 acres in total. 23 started naturally. 1 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	23
Debris and open burning	6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Recreation and ceremony	2
Arson/incendiarism	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
9 September 2013	Natural	under an acre	Idaho Department of Lands	HUNTER
8 September 2005	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Nez Perce - Clearwater National Forests	LITTLE BOULDER
28 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Idaho Department of Lands	FORKS
27 September 2019	Natural	under an acre	Idaho Department of Lands	FORKS
2 September 1992	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Idaho Department of Lands	CLAY PIT
17 September 2001	Natural	under an acre	Idaho Department of Lands	CHERRY BUTTE
10 September 2011	Natural	under an acre	Idaho Department of Lands	TEE MEADOWS
8 August 2010	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Ponderosa Area Office	LITTLE BOULDER

Every fire recorded in Latah County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Russell Lawrence Farmstead: 7 producers, 4 occurrences, 2 past producers, 1 prospect. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Stone, Aluminum, Kaolin. 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
Bovill Clay Deposit	Water, Free, Titanium, Silica, Iron, Aluminum	Past Producer	1943, 1961
Deary Clay Deposit	Brick Clay, Fire Clay (Refractory)	Occurrence	Clay
Deary Clay Deposit South	Aluminum, Kaolin, Iron	Occurrence
Deary Clay Prospect East	Brick Clay	Occurrence	Clay
Helmer Clay Deposit	Kaolin, Silica	Producer	1956
Little Echo No 1	Copper	Prospect
Bouill Rock Quarry	Stone	Producer
Deary Pit	Stone	Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Latah County

Storms near this property

1 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Deary, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2008: 1 hail. 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
May 2008	Hail	Deary	-	no account filed

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

4 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
Deary Garage	3.2 miles	2024
St. Joseph's Catholic Church	6.0 miles	1982
Hotel Bovill	6.1 miles	1994
Bovill Opera House	6.2 miles	2010

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 11000862 in Record Group 79.
Latah County	All 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.