BlockFrom the record
One of 27 National Register listings published here for Shoshone County · listed in 1974 · category: District.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Avery Ranger Station
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 6 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
- Address. Near St. Joseph National Forest, Avery, 83802
- When was it listed? June 1974
- Category. district
- Census division. Avery-Clarkia
- National Register reference number. 74000748 - 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
36 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 36 fires within 5 miles of Avery Ranger Station between 1992 and 2017, burning about 58 acres in total. 27 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 | 27 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Other causes | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 September 2006 | Natural | under an acre | Idaho Panhandle National Forest | STETSON |
| 7 September 2006 | Natural | 3.5 acres | Idaho Panhandle National Forest | AVERY HILL |
| 5 September 1995 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Idaho Panhandle National Forest | AVERY DUMPSTER |
| 3 September 1994 | Natural | under an acre | Idaho Panhandle National Forest | not named |
| 20 September 1994 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 19 acres | Idaho Panhandle National Forest | not named |
| 2 September 1992 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Idaho Panhandle National Forest | not named |
| 6 August 2010 | Natural | under an acre | Idaho Panhandle National Forest | FISHHOOK |
| 4 August 2017 | Natural | 20 acres | Idaho Panhandle National Forest | ROUNDHOUSE |
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 Avery Ranger Station: 5 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Copper, Gold, Silver, Lead, Copper, Zinc. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cougar Group | Copper, Gold | Occurrence | ||
| Setser Prospect | Silver, Lead, Copper, Zinc | Occurrence | Chalcopyrite, Galena, Sphalerite | |
| Setser Prospect | Zinc, Lead, Copper | Occurrence | ||
| Kelley Creek Prospect | Copper | Occurrence | Chalcopyrite | |
| Kelley Creek Prospect | Copper | Occurrence |
Storms near this property
1 since 2016Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Avery, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2016: 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2016 | Hail | Avery | - | A member of the public reported 1 inch size hail covering the ground with estimated 45 mph winds at Avery, Idaho. |
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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Avery Depot | 0.1 miles | 1984 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 74000748 in Record Group 79. |
| Shoshone County | All 27 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.