Arrowrock Dam

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.

From the record

“Arrowrock Dam is a concrete arch dam in the western United States, on the Boise River in southwestern Idaho, east of Boise. Opened 111 years ago in 1915, it is located on the border of Boise and Elmore counties, upstream of the Lucky Peak Dam and reservoir.”
Wikipedia article Arrowrock Dam, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 4 National Register listings published here for Boise County · listed in 1972 · category: Structure.

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

The listing

Address. About 10 mi. E of Boise on U.S. Forest Service Roads, Boise, 83716
When was it listed? November 1972
Category. structure
National Register reference number. 72000437 - 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

80 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 80 fires within 5 miles of Arrowrock Dam between 1992 and 2020, burning about 20,650 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 11 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	16
Equipment and vehicle use	14
Natural	13
Power generation/transmission/distribution	12
Arson/incendiarism	11
Recreation and ceremony	5
Smoking	5
Fireworks	2
Firearms and explosives use	1
Debris and open burning	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
6 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Boise National Forest	BRIDGE
3 September 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Boise District	MM14 HWY21
20 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	136 acres	Boise National Forest	ARROW
20 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	25 acres	Boise National Forest	IRISH
2 September 1992	Arson/incendiarism	12,860 acres	Boise National Forest	DUNNIGAN #2
16 September 2020	Power generation/transmission/distribution	17 acres	Boise District	NURSE
12 September 2013	Natural	under an acre	Boise District	GUESS
11 September 2016	Power generation/transmission/distribution	11 acres	Boise National Forest	NURSE

Every fire recorded in Boise County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Arrowrock Dam: 1 producer, 1 past producer, 1 prospect. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Niobium (Columbium). 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
Consolidated Mine & Dredge Co	Gold, Silver	Past Producer
New Columbium	Niobium (Columbium)	Prospect
Neal District	Gold	Producer	QUARTZ LENS

Every working recorded in Boise 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 72000437 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Boise County	All 4 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.