Fort Hall

A National Historic Landmark. Built in 1834. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1966.

From the record

“Fort Hall was a fort in the Western United States that was built in 1834 as a fur trading post by Nathaniel Jarvis Wyeth. It was located on the Snake River in the eastern Oregon Country, now part of present-day Bannock County in southeastern Idaho.”
Wikipedia article Fort Hall, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 30 National Register listings published here for Bannock County · listed in 1966 · category: Site · built in 1834 · a National Historic Landmark.

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

The listing

Address. 11 mi. W of Fort Hall, Fort Hall Indian Reservation, Fort Hall
When was it listed? October 1966
Category. site
Census division. Fort Hall
When was it built? 1834
National Register reference number. 66000306 - 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

15 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Fort Hall between 1992 and 2015, burning about 573 acres in total. 3 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	3
Firearms and explosives use	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
Debris and open burning	2
Fireworks	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Arson/incendiarism	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Smoking	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
25 August 2001	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Idaho Falls District	MCTUCKER
20 July 2012	Natural	1.0 acres	Idaho Falls District	ISLAND
17 July 2007	Fireworks	under an acre	Idaho Falls District	JIMMY CREEK
30 June 2007	Fireworks	under an acre	Idaho Falls District	BOTTOMS 1
14 May 2015	Natural	1.5 acres	Idaho Falls District	FORT HALL ASSIST 1
10 May 2006	Firearms and explosives use	under an acre	Idaho Falls District	OTTER
10 May 2006	Firearms and explosives use	2.0 acres	Idaho Falls District	ISLAND
18 April 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Idaho Falls District	JIMMY CRK

Every fire recorded in Bannock County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Fort Hall: 4 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold. 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
Fort Hall Bottoms Placers	Gold	Past Producer	Placer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Bannock 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 66000306 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Bannock County	All 30 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.