Oneida Stake Academy

Built in 1888 (Romanesque Revival architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.

From the record

“The Oneida Stake Academy was a secondary school operated by the Oneida Stake of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1888 to 1922. The academy building was constructed in Preston, Idaho, in 1895, after the stake headquarters moved from Franklin, Idaho, in 1889.”
Wikipedia article Oneida Stake Academy, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 9 National Register listings published here for Franklin County · listed in 1975 · category: Building · built in 1888, Romanesque Revival architecture.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. NW corner of 2nd, S. and 2nd, E. Sts., Preston, 83263
When was it listed? May 1975
Category. building
Census division. Preston
When was it built? 1888
Architectural style. Romanesque Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 75000630 - 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

1 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Oneida Stake Academy in 1992, burning about 60 acres in total. 1 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	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
30 July 1992	Natural	60 acres	Idaho Falls District	N WESTON

Every fire recorded in Franklin County

Mines and quarries near this property

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Oneida Stake Academy: 4 occurrences, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Geothermal, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Franklin County Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Battle Creek Hot Spring	Geothermal	Occurrence
Geothermal Location	Geothermal	Occurrence
Vincent Hot Spring	Geothermal	Occurrence
Wayland Hot Spring	Geothermal	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Franklin County

Storms near this property

12 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Preston, the town this property stands in, in 12 storm reports between 1996 and 2023: 4 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 funnel cloud, 1 flood. 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 2023	Debris Flow	Preston	$10,000	At approximately 6:30 pm MDT on the 11th a mud slide necessitated the closure of SH-36 between Ovid and Preston. Continued warming temperatures resulted in two more slides in the area. As of 2:30 pm MDT on the 12th the highway remained closed north of Mink Creek.
August 1998	Hail	Preston	$2,000	no account filed
July 2017	Hail	Preston	$200	One inch hail fell in Preston with reports of window of car broken out on South First Street by it.
January 2017	Flood	Preston	-	Some flooding in the NE corner of Preston, especially around the Country Club/golf course. Water over the road on Highway 34 in Preston. Also, water reported over the road on Highway 36 up to Mile Marker 7. Water has not been deep enough to necessitate road closures.
July 2017	Flash Flood	Preston	-	Over 1 foot of water was covering South First Street East in Preston after over a half inch of rain fell in 10 minutes.
June 2015	Hail	Preston	-	One inch hail reported near the city of Preston.
August 2015	Hail	Preston	-	One inch hail measured near Preston.
May 2015	Funnel Cloud	Preston	-	Funnel cloud viewed over Weston and Preston.
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Preston	-	Measured wind gust of 64 mph.
August 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Preston	-	Preston mesonet site reported sixty-four mph wind gust.
March 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Preston	-	no account filed
May 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Preston	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Franklin 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

6 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
Matthias Cowley House	0.1 miles	1976
US Post Office-Preston Main	0.3 miles	1989
Franklin County Courthouse	0.3 miles	1987
Bear River Battleground	4.0 miles	1973
L. H. Hatch House	6.3 miles	1973
Franklin Co-operative Mercantile Institution	6.4 miles	1991

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 75000630 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Franklin County	All 9 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.