First Presbyterian Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.

From the record

“First Indian Presbyterian Church is a historic Presbyterian church to the east of Kamiah, Idaho. The church was constructed in 1871 on land belonging to Chief Lawyer, a member of the Nez Perce tribe.”
Wikipedia article First Presbyterian Church (Kamiah, Idaho), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 42 National Register listings published here for Idaho County · listed in 1976 · 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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. SE of Kamiah on U.S. 12, Kamiah, 83536
When was it listed? May 1976
Category. building
Census division. Nez Perce
Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture, Gothic Revival
National Register reference number. 76000674 - 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

183 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 183 fires within 5 miles of First Presbyterian Church between 1992 and 2020, burning about 5,855 acres in total. 65 started naturally. 11 were 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	65
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	53
Debris and open burning	25
Arson/incendiarism	11
Recreation and ceremony	8
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Misuse of fire by a minor	6
Fireworks	6
Smoking	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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 1997	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Idaho Department of Lands	HAYSTACK
7 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Maggie Creek Area Office	RAILROAD
7 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Maggie Creek Area Office	KIDDER
7 September 1998	Natural	under an acre	Idaho Department of Lands	PARADIS LOST
7 September 1998	Natural	under an acre	Idaho Department of Lands	GLENWOOD
6 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Cottonwood Field Office	ESCORT
4 September 1999	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Idaho Department of Lands	PIT
3 September 1994	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Idaho Department of Lands	TRASH

Every fire recorded in Idaho County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of First Presbyterian Church: 4 producers, 3 unknowns, 3 past producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Mica, Uranium. 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
Ida-Lew Construction	Uranium, Stone	Past Producer
Myers Mica Mine	Mica, PGE, Molybdenum	Unknown
Myers Mica Mine	Mica	Past Producer	1920
Abbie Welch Rock Pit	Stone	Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Kidder Ridge Pit	Stone	Unknown
Seven Mile Pit	Stone	Producer
State Pit 425-166	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

Every working recorded in Idaho 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

2 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.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	Sue McBeth Cabin	under 500 feet	1976
	State Bank of Kooskia	4.7 miles	1978

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 76000674 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Idaho County	All 42 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.