Photograph of Fort Boise — Photograph by Sketch by William H. Tappan, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Fort Boise and Riverside Ferry Sites

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.

From the record

“Fort Boise is either of two different locations in the Western United States, both in southwestern Idaho. The first was a Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) trading post near the Snake River on what is now the Oregon border, dating from the era when Idaho was included in the British fur company's Columbia District.”
Wikipedia article Fort Boise, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 44 National Register listings published here for Canyon County · listed in 1974 · category: Site.

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

The listing

Address. NW of Parma on Snake River, Parma, 83660
When was it listed? December 1974
Category. site
Census division. Parma
National Register reference number. 74000736 - 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

3 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Fort Boise and Riverside Ferry Sites between 1995 and 2009, burning about 2,272 acres in total. 2 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	2
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
4 September 1995	Natural	2,221 acres	Boise District	D LINE
3 August 2009	Natural	under an acre	Vale District	LINCOLN
1 June 2000	Debris and open burning	51 acres	Boise District	OLD DUMP

Every fire recorded in Canyon County

Mines and quarries near this property

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Fort Boise and Riverside Ferry Sites: 4 past producers, 2 producers, 2 unknowns. 2 still produce. 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Snake River Placers	Gold	Past Producer	Placer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Loe Pit and Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Loe Pit and Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Nyssa Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Nyssa Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Canyon County

Storms near this property

8 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Parma, the town this property stands in, in 8 storm reports between 1996 and 2017: 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 tornado. 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
May 1996	Tornado (F1)	Parma	$50,000	no account filed
May 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Parma	$5,000	no account filed
June 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Parma	-	A retired National Weather Service employee reported very strong winds gusts and damage associated with nearby thunderstorms. Numerous reports of downed trees and power lines were received through social media.
May 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Parma	-	Social media reported a 60 foot tall Blue Spruce tree was uprooted near Parma.
August 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Parma	-	Wind Gust measured by home weather station at 68 M.P.H
June 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Parma	-	An area of thunderstorms intensified as it moved northward from northwest Owyhee County into Canyon County. A utility pole was blown down in Parma, taking down power lines.
July 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Parma	-	no account filed
May 1996	Hail	Parma	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Canyon 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

3 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
A. H. Stewart House	4.7 miles	1979
Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary Church	4.8 miles	1982
Roswell Grade School	6.1 miles	1982

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 74000736 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Canyon County	All 44 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.