Priestly's Hydraulic Ram

Built in 1890. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.

From the record

“Priestly's Hydraulic Ram, located in Gooding County, Idaho near Hagerman, Idaho, was a hydraulic ram invented and built c. 1890. It was used to move water uphill to irrigate agricultural land on the plateau above the Snake River.”
Wikipedia article Priestly's Hydraulic Ram, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 13 National Register listings published here for Gooding County · listed in 1975 · category: Structure · built in 1890.

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 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. 6 mi. S of Hagerman at Thousand Springs, Hagerman
When was it listed? February 1975
Category. structure
When was it built? 1890
National Register reference number. 75000631 - 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.

Storms near this property

5 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hagerman, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 2013 and 2022: 3 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 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
February 2017	Flood	Hagerman	$1,500,000	Rain and snowmelt on top of saturated and frozen soil led to widespread flooding. A report from social media indicated much of the town of Hagerman including the city park was flooded. Widespread flooding of agricultural lands occurred and some roads were damaged and closed due to flooding.
June 2022	Hail	Hagerman	-	A member of the public posted this photo of hail on social media.
June 2022	Hail	Hagerman	-	There were multiple reports on social media of hail around one inch in diameter.
August 2014	Hail	Hagerman	-	Numerous reports on social media indicated quarter size, power outages and power poles down were observed from Hagerman to Bliss and Gooding.
September 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Hagerman	-	Damage to buildings and power lines down was reported.

Every storm recorded in Gooding 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 record	The nomination case file for reference 75000631 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Gooding County	All 13 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.
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.