Camp Lyon Site

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.

From the record

One of 11 National Register listings published here for Owyhee County · listed in 1972 · category: Site.

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

The listing

Address. 1 mi. E of U.S. 95, Reynolds, 97910
When was it listed? December 1972
Category. site
Census division. Murphy
National Register reference number. 72000444 - 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

16 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Camp Lyon Site between 1994 and 2020, burning about 284,162 acres in total. 11 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	11
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Smoking	1
Other causes	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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 2017	Natural	57 acres	Vale District	BAXTER CREEK
6 September 2006	Natural	2.0 acres	Boise District	SPANISH
15 September 2011	Natural	under an acre	Vale District	WHISKEY CREEK
5 August 1994	Smoking	under an acre	Vale District	HWY95 12
26 August 1996	Natural	600 acres	Vale District	THOMAS CR
26 August 1996	Natural	2.0 acres	Vale District	WILSON CR
23 August 1996	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Vale District	OKEEFE CR
22 August 2013	Natural	24 acres	Boise District	COW

Every fire recorded in Owyhee County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Camp Lyon Site: 6 occurrences, 3 past producers, 2 producers, 2 prospects. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Zeolites, Perlite, Pumice, Gemstone. 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
Mp 8.9 I.O.N. Hwy	Stone	Past Producer
Mp 8.9 I.O.N. Hwy	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Cow Creek	Perlite	Occurrence
Hillcrest 1 - 9, 11	Gemstone	Past Producer
Hillcrest Mine	Gemstone	Producer
Perlite Deposit	Perlite	Occurrence
Sheaville Pumice	Pumice	Occurrence
Sheaville Pumice	Pumice	Prospect
Sheaville Project	Zeolites	Past Producer
Sheaville Zeolite	Zeolites	Occurrence	Replacement

Every working recorded in Owyhee County

Storms near this property

8 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Reynolds, the town this property stands in, in 8 storm reports between 1997 and 2023: 4 heavy rain, 2 flash flood, 1 flood, 1 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 2023	Heavy Rain	Reynolds	-	The mesonet station, RYCI1, 7.6 miles northwest of Reynolds, ID measured 0.50 inches of heavy rain.
August 2023	Heavy Rain	Reynolds	-	The mesonet station RYCI 7.6 miles northwest of Reynolds, ID measured 0.70 inches of rain.
June 2023	Heavy Rain	Reynolds	-	The mesonet station, RENI1, near Reynolds Creek, measured 0.61 inches of heavy rain 10 miles west of Murphy, ID.
June 2022	Heavy Rain	Reynolds	-	The Mesonet station, RENI1, at Reynolds Creek measured 1.90 inches of total rainfall.
April 1998	Flood	Reynolds	-	Heavy rains over the Owyhee Mountains caused Reynolds Creek to briefly overflow and flood a roadway in Owyhee County.
September 1997	Flash Flood	Reynolds	-	Afternoon heavy showers and thunderstorms produced a minor flash flood in Owyhee County. Spotters reported water over the Reynolds Creek Road.
June 2003	Hail	Reynolds	-	no account filed
July 1998	Flash Flood	Reynolds	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Owyhee 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 72000444 in Record Group 79.
Owyhee County	All 11 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.
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.