Silver City Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.

From the record

“The Silver City Historic District is a historically significant mining area in northwestern Owyhee County, Idaho, United States. It includes the abandoned town of Silver City and numerous nearby towns, mines, and mining remains, covering approximately 37 square feet.”
Wikipedia article Silver City Historic District (Idaho), CC BY-SA 4.0.

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

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

The listing

Address. Silver City and its environs, Silver City, 83650
When was it listed? May 1972
Category. district
Census division. Murphy
National Register reference number. 72000446 - 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 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Silver City Historic District between 1992 and 2015, burning about 736 acres in total. 7 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	7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
8 August 1999	Natural	2.0 acres	Boise District	GERTIE
5 August 2000	Natural	under an acre	Boise District	SULLIVAN
31 August 1994	Debris and open burning	616 acres	Boise District	DROLLINGER
24 August 2000	Natural	2.0 acres	Boise District	CINNABAR
12 August 1994	Natural	2.0 acres	Boise District	SUGAR LOAF
10 August 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	110 acres	Boise District	SCOTCH BOB
21 July 2015	Natural	3.0 acres	Boise District	DOWNEY
10 July 2002	Natural	under an acre	Boise District	BURNAM

Every fire recorded in Owyhee County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 112 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 112 workings within 5 miles of Silver City Historic District: 91 past producers, 9 unknowns, 6 occurrences, 4 prospects. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Silver, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Black Jack-Trade Dollar Mine	Silver, Gold, Zinc, Copper, Lead, Mercury	Past Producer	1889
Gold Bug	Gold, Silver, Lead, Copper	Past Producer
Never Sweat	Gold, Silver, Copper	Past Producer
Poorman Mine	Silver, Gold, Zinc, Copper, Lead	Past Producer	1865
Potosi	Gold, Silver, Copper, Lead	Past Producer
Silver City Region	Silver, Gold, Lead, Zinc, Copper	Past Producer	1863
Trade Dollar	Gold, Copper, Silver, Mercury, Lead	Past Producer
Empire Veins Mine	Silver, Gold, Copper	Past Producer	1872
Grey Eagle	Antimony	Prospect
Grey Eagle Prospect	Antimony	Occurrence

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.

Listed places nearby

1 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.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	Delamar Historic District	6.3 miles	1976

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 72000446 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
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.