BlockFrom the record
One of 42 National Register listings published here for Idaho County · listed in 1974 · category: Site.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
White Bird Battlefield
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.
The listing
- Address. N of White Bird off U.S. 95, White Bird, 83554
- When was it listed? July 1974
- Category. site
- Census division. Grangeville
- National Register reference number. 74000332 - 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
72 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 72 fires within 5 miles of White Bird Battlefield between 1992 and 2020, burning about 25,810 acres in total. 27 started naturally. 5 were 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 | 27 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 19 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 8 |
| Debris and open burning | 5 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 5 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 4 |
| Fireworks | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 2001 | Arson/incendiarism | 40 acres | Idaho Department of Lands | WHITBIRD GRADE |
| 8 September 2001 | Arson/incendiarism | 6.0 acres | Idaho Department of Lands | LITTLE ONE |
| 6 September 2001 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Coeur d'Alene Field Office | HOOTS |
| 6 September 2001 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Idaho Department of Lands | WHITEBIRD PULLOUT |
| 5 September 2019 | Fireworks | under an acre | Idaho Department of Lands | COLDSMOKE |
| 30 September 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Idaho Department of Lands | LOST RAIL |
| 30 September 1996 | Recreation and ceremony | 40 acres | Coeur d'Alene Field Office | BETTY CR |
| 25 September 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Cottonwood Field Office | DOUMECQ |
Mines and quarries near this property
5 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of White Bird Battlefield: 2 past producers, 2 producers, 1 occurrence. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silver, Stone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Diamond Drill Mine | Silver, Gold | Occurrence | ||
| Doumecq Pit | Stone | Producer | ||
| Cooper Bar Placer | Gold | Past Producer | Placer | |
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| State Pit Id 169 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this property
4 since 2004Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names White Bird, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 2004 and 2010: 4 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2010 | Hail | White Bird | - | Law enforcement reports golf ball sized hail in the Whitebird city limits. |
| August 2010 | Hail | White Bird | - | A trained spotter reported pea to nickel size hail that he had to use a snow shovel to clear the accumulations off his deck. He also reported 0.50 inches of rain with the storm. |
| July 2004 | Hail | White Bird | - | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Hail | White Bird | - | no account filed |
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
2 within 8 milesOther 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | White Bird Grade | 2.4 miles | 1974 |
 | Dr. Wilson Foskett Home and Drugstore | 2.9 miles | 2005 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 74000332 in Record Group 79. |
| Idaho County | All 42 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.