BlockFrom the record
One of 17 National Register listings published here for Bingham County · listed in 1974 · category: Site.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Fort Hall Site
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building, 1 site, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 16 mi. N of Fort Hall, Fort Hall
- When was it listed? November 1974
- Category. site
- National Register reference number. 74000732 - 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
15 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Fort Hall Site between 1992 and 2015, burning about 573 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 1 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 | 3 |
| Firearms and explosives use | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Fireworks | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25 August 2001 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Idaho Falls District | MCTUCKER |
| 20 July 2012 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Idaho Falls District | ISLAND |
| 17 July 2007 | Fireworks | under an acre | Idaho Falls District | JIMMY CREEK |
| 30 June 2007 | Fireworks | under an acre | Idaho Falls District | BOTTOMS 1 |
| 14 May 2015 | Natural | 1.5 acres | Idaho Falls District | FORT HALL ASSIST 1 |
| 10 May 2006 | Firearms and explosives use | under an acre | Idaho Falls District | OTTER |
| 10 May 2006 | Firearms and explosives use | 2.0 acres | Idaho Falls District | ISLAND |
| 18 April 1999 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Idaho Falls District | JIMMY CRK |
Mines and quarries near this property
4 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Fort Hall Site: 4 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fort Hall Bottoms Placers | Gold | Past Producer | Placer | |
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
2 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fort Hall, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports in 1995: 1 tornado, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 1995 | Tornado (F0) | Fort Hall | $50,000 | A series of tornados touch down in Bingham County causing damage to mobile homes, highway signs, and recreational equipment. |
| September 1995 | Hail | Fort Hall | - | 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.
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 74000732 in Record Group 79. |
| Bingham County | All 17 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.