Nez Perce National Historical Park

Built in 1965. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1966.

From the record

“The Nez Perce National Historical Park is a United States National Historical Park comprising 38 sites located across the states of Idaho, Montana, Oregon, and Washington, which include traditional aboriginal lands of the Nez Perce people. The sites are strongly associated with the resistance of Chief Joseph and his band, who in June 1877 migrated from Oregon in an attempt to reach freedom in Canada and avoid being forced on to a reservation.”
Wikipedia article Nez Perce National Historical Park, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 8 National Register listings published here for Clearwater County · listed in 1966 · category: District · built in 1965.

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

The listing

Address. Area 90 mi. S and 150 mi. E of Spalding, Spalding, 83523
When was it listed? October 1966
Category. district
When was it built? 1965
National Register reference number. 66000310 - 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

21 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Nez Perce National Historical Park between 1992 and 2015, burning about 202 acres in total. 9 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	9
Debris and open burning	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Arson/incendiarism	1
Other causes	1
Fireworks	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
5 September 2010	Natural	under an acre	Clearwater Potlatch Timber Protective Association	MORRIS SADDLE
2 September 1997	Arson/incendiarism	10 acres	Idaho Department of Lands	OLD MELROSE
2 September 1995	Equipment and vehicle use	4.0 acres	Idaho Department of Lands	CITY LIMITS
18 September 2005	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Nez Perce Tribe	BARN BUCKET
12 September 2011	Fireworks	36 acres	Nez Perce Tribe	AIRPORT ROAD
26 August 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.5 acres	Idaho Department of Lands	COW FIRE
21 August 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Nez Perce Tribe	SPOTTENBINE
20 August 2004	Debris and open burning	6.7 acres	Idaho Department of Lands	REGGEAR

Every fire recorded in Clearwater 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 Nez Perce National Historical Park: 4 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Craigmont Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Clearwater 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 66000310 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
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.