Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.
From the record
“Granite Pass on the California Trail, located in what is now Cassia County, Idaho less than half a mile north of Utah, has historic significance dating to 1842 when it was found by Joseph B. Chiles to serve as an adequate emigrant trail route to come west toward California from the Oregon Trail route that went through Fort Hall.”
Wikipedia article Granite Pass (California Trail), CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 7 National Register listings published here for Cassia County · listed in 1972 · category: Site.
National Register reference number.72000439- 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 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Granite Pass
between 1992 and 2018, burning about 19,448 acres in total. 22 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
Natural
22
Equipment and vehicle use
2
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
21 workings within 5 miles of Granite Pass: 10 past producers, 9 occurrences, 1 producer, 1 prospect.
1 still produces. What was taken out: Silver, Silver, Gold, Gold, Gold, Silver. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Burley, the town this property stands in, in 46 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 15 hail, 15 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 3 heavy rain.
The reports record 1 death and 1 injury. 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.
A warmup in temperatures caused extensive snow melt to lower elevations of Cassia County with devastating flooding throughout the rural county. Flooding began in earnest on the 5th. Interstate 86 was closed for a 36 mile stretch in the county with flooding over the Raft River bridges. A foot and a half of water was over the interstate and it was closed from the 6th until the 9th. The interstate began to flood on the 5th. Cassia County was declared a state disaster area. Dozens of homes were severely damaged by flood waters. Many private wells and septic systems flooded contaminating many homes. Several back roads had to be closed and many suffered tremendous damage.
Sheet flooding continued in March throughout Cassia although effects were not nearly as strong as February. Property and road damage continued to add up and many fields in the Oakley area remained under water for much of the month.
Several trees were downed in Burley by a microburst wind with several trees on houses and extensive shingle damage reported. Light fixtures were shattered on several homes.
Extensive damage and warning level winds occurred with the passage of a cold front the evening of March 10th. Two trees were downed into a house in Burley. Several trees down at Burley parks and golf course.
Extensive flooding reported in the City of Malta, particularly for areas west of Highway 81 where water entered many homes. At least knee deep water was reported running down city streets on Tuesday night, January 10th. Water entered many homes in the city to the west of Highway 81.||A few people have been displaced from homes as a result of home flooding. Many county roads closed throughout Cassia County as a result of flooding. 1 to 2 feet of water on Highway 30 from Burley to the county line. Many basements have received water throughout the county. Birch Creek flowing onto city streets in Oakley. Many streets in Oakley under water. Canals are at bankfull. Canal engineers working to contain flow.
Heavy rain at the Fairgounds in Burley collapsed tents and flooded the parking lot with up to three feet of water with some vehicles partially flooded. Elsewhere in Burley extensive street flooded occurred with water over curbs. Water ponded to 2 to 4 feet in some parking lots.
Hail up to golfball-size near 300S 603E caused total loss of the wheat crop and extensive damage to potatoes, sugarbeets and corn. All leafy foliage was stripped with only only potato vines remaining. Hail remained in some shady areas until the next morning.
Hail along the hillside at the bottom of the Albion highway grade pulverized gardens and plants, stripped paint from side of homes/buildings, chipped small pieces of brick along the side of one home, and broke yard lights.
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.
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.
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