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Charcoal Kilns
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.
From the record
“The Birch Creek Charcoal Kilns are a group of beehive-shaped clay charcoal kilns near Leadore, Idaho, built in 1886. They were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.”
Wikipedia article Birch Creek Charcoal Kilns, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 13 National Register listings published here for Lemhi County · listed in 1972 · category: Structure.
National Register reference number.72001577- 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
8 since 1994
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Charcoal Kilns
between 1994 and 2020, burning about 67 acres in total. 6 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
6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
1
Recreation and ceremony
1
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
12 workings within 5 miles of Charcoal Kilns: 7 prospects, 3 occurrences, 2 past producers.
None of them still produces. What was taken out: Lead, Zinc, Iron, Lead, 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
Leadore, the town this property stands in, in 10 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 2 heavy rain, 1 lightning.
The reports record 2 injuries. 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.
Destructive thunderstorms swept through the Leadore area, unleashing estimated wind gusts of 80 mph. A local motel and a double-wide mobile home had their roofs ripped off by the violent winds. The storm also toppled trees, damaged home siding, pushed over 300 feet of fencing, and rolled a 300-gallon fuel tank.
The Leadore Creek RAWS station at 6,150 ft., reported a 60 mph wind gust between 3:36 and 4:36 pm MDT thanks to a decaying thunderstorm cell that passed just to its north.
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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