Caldron Linn

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.

From the record

One of 64 National Register listings published here for Jerome County · listed in 1972 · category: Site.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 site as contributing to the listing.
Address. 2 mi. E of Murtaugh, Murtaugh, 83344
When was it listed? June 1972
Category. site
National Register reference number. 72000442 - 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

7 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Caldron Linn between 1995 and 2018, burning about 56 acres in total. None 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
Debris and open burning	4
Recreation and ceremony	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
8 September 2005	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Idaho Falls District	MURTAUGH
19 August 1996	Recreation and ceremony	3.0 acres	Twin Falls District	CALDRINLIN
15 August 1995	Equipment and vehicle use	50 acres	Twin Falls District	NMURTAUGH
5 July 2003	Fireworks	2.0 acres	Idaho Falls District	MURTAUGH
27 May 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Twin Falls District	MURTAUGH GRADE
11 May 2006	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Twin Falls District	CALDRON LIN
21 April 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Twin Falls District	CALDRON

Every fire recorded in Jerome County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Caldron Linn: 7 past producers, 4 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron, Chromium. 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
Snake River Placer Deposits	Gold, Iron, Chromium	Past Producer
Borrow Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Borrow Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Murtaugh Placer Deposit	Gold	Past Producer	1862
Snake River Placers	Gold	Past Producer	1862
Unnamed Location	Gold	Occurrence
Unnamed Location	Gold	Occurrence
Unnamed Location	Gold	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Jerome 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

5 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
L. Fay Shepard House	1.2 miles	1983
Marion and Julia Kelley House	6.7 miles	1983
Hazelton Presbyterian Church	6.9 miles	1991
Bert and Fay Havens House	7.5 miles	1983
Greenwood School	7.9 miles	2020

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 72000442 in Record Group 79.
Jerome County	All 64 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.