Camp Three Forks

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. S of Silver City, Silver City, 83650
When was it listed? December 1972
Category. site
Census division. Murphy
National Register reference number. 72000445 - 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

9 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Camp Three Forks between 1995 and 2019, burning about 1,054 acres in total. 9 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	9

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 August 2013	Natural	under an acre	Vale District	TWIN LAKES
5 August 1999	Natural	2.0 acres	Vale District	COBURN CR
5 August 1999	Natural	under an acre	Vale District	COBURN 2
2 August 2009	Natural	under an acre	Boise District	BREAK AWAY ROSIE
16 August 2018	Natural	618 acres	Vale District	COYOTE CREEK
13 August 2013	Natural	426 acres	Boise District	TANK
12 August 2014	Natural	2.1 acres	Vale District	LEMHI
28 July 2019	Natural	under an acre	Vale District	COYOTE POINT

Every fire recorded in Owyhee County

Mines and quarries near this property

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Camp Three Forks: 2 past producers, 2 producers, 2 occurrences. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Volcanic Materials, Gold, Silver, Copper. 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
Coburn Creek Community Pit	Volcanic Materials	Producer
Copper King Prospect	Gold, Silver, Copper	Occurrence	Chalcopyrite, Tetrahedrite
Copper King Prospect	Copper, Silver, Gold	Occurrence
Grenke Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Coburn Creek	Stone	Past Producer
Grenke	Stone	Past Producer

Every working 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 72000445 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.