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Photograph of Coeur d'Alene Mission of the Sacred Heart
Photograph by Idaho Historical Society, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Coeur d'Alene Mission of the Sacred Heart

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.

From the record

“Coeur d'Alene Mission of the Sacred Heart is a historic church mission school off U.S. 95 in Desmet, Idaho.”

Wikipedia article Coeur d'Alene Mission of the Sacred Heart, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 8 National Register listings published here for Benewah County · listed in 1975 · category: Building.

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

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. Off U.S. 95, Desmet, 83824
  • When was it listed? April 1975
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Tensed
  • National Register reference number. 75000623 - 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

64 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 64 fires within 5 miles of Coeur d'Alene Mission of the Sacred Heart between 1992 and 2020, burning about 461 acres in total. 21 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
Debris and open burning27
Natural21
Equipment and vehicle use6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Fireworks3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Smoking1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 2012Naturalunder an acreNorthern Idaho AgencyMOUNTAINSIDE
9 September 2012Naturalunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsSJS MOUNTAINSIDE
6 September 1994Debris and open burning4.0 acresNorthern Idaho AgencyALLOT 375
6 September 1994Natural5.0 acresNorthern Idaho AgencyDESHIELDS
5 September 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreNorthern Idaho AgencyBUNNY HOP
4 September 2008Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresNorthern Idaho AgencyRUPERT
27 September 2005Debris and open burning1.5 acresNorthern Idaho Agency4 CORNERS #3
26 September 2006Debris and open burning15 acresNorthern Idaho AgencyFOUR CORNERS

Every fire recorded in Benewah County

Mines and quarries near this property

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Coeur d'Alene Mission of the Sacred Heart: 3 past producers, 2 producers, 2 occurrences. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Kaolin, 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Bw-1001 PitStoneProducer
Tensed MineKaolinProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Atkinson ProspectIronOccurrence
Mccleary ButteIronPast Producer
Tensed ProspectIronOccurrence

Every working recorded in Benewah 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 75000623 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Benewah CountyAll 8 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.