Kootenai County Courthouse

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.

From the record

“The Kootenai County Courthouse, located at 501 Government Way in Coeur d'Alene, is the county courthouse serving Kootenai County, Idaho. Zittle designed the Georgian Revival building.”
Wikipedia article Kootenai County Courthouse, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 45 National Register listings published here for Kootenai County · listed in 1977 · category: Building.

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. 501 Government Way, Coeur d'Alene, 83814
When was it listed? December 1977
Category. building
Census division. Coeur d'Alene
Architectural style. Colonial Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 77000462 - 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

89 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 89 fires within 5 miles of Kootenai County Courthouse between 1992 and 2020, burning about 77 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 6 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
Debris and open burning	31
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	14
Misuse of fire by a minor	12
Recreation and ceremony	11
Natural	7
Arson/incendiarism	6
Smoking	5
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Fireworks	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 2014	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Idaho Department of Lands	PRESLEY
4 September 2010	Smoking	under an acre	Mica Area Office	FERNAN HILL FIRE
3 September 1994	Misuse of fire by a minor	1.0 acres	Idaho Department of Lands	PUMPKIN PATCH
25 September 1999	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Idaho Department of Lands	ATLAS 27
2 September 1996	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Idaho Department of Lands	COUGAR ESTATES
18 September 1994	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Idaho Department of Lands	GARBAGE FIRE
16 September 2001	Natural	under an acre	Idaho Department of Lands	HIENE
12 September 1996	Natural	under an acre	Idaho Department of Lands	DOWER RD

Every fire recorded in Kootenai County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Kootenai County Courthouse: 5 producers, 4 prospects, 2 past producers, 1 occurrence. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Kaolin, Aluminum. 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
Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Fernan Hill Clay Deposit	Kaolin	Prospect
Kid Island Clay Deposit	Clay	Occurrence
Kid Island Clay Deposit	Aluminum	Prospect
Stanley Hill Clay Deposit	Clay, Aluminum	Prospect	Clay
Stockton Clay Deposit	Kaolin	Prospect	1920
Couer D' Alene Pit and Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Couer D'Alene Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Cpi Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Kootenai County

Storms near this property

28 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Coeur d'Alene, the town this property stands in, in 28 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 8 thunderstorm wind, 7 flood, 4 lightning, 3 flash 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
June 2017	Lightning	Coeur D Alene	$50,000	Lightning set fire to a home on Lake Coeur D'Alene during the evening of June 28th.
June 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Coeur D Alene	$33,000	no account filed
June 2007	Lightning	Coeur D Alene	$30,000	no account filed
June 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Coeur D Alene	$28,000	no account filed
June 2022	Flood	Coeur D Alene	$20,000	Kootenai county sheriff reports 2 to 3 feet of water in the Coeur Dalene resort garage.
April 2012	Flood	Coeur D Alene	$20,000	Two homes in Fernan Village were flooded by Fernan Lake. Three other homes along the shores of the lake had their seawalls heightened with sandbags to prevent the lake from entering the homes.
March 2012	Flood	Coeur D Alene	$20,000	Two homes in Fernan Village were flooded by Fernan Lake. Three other homes along the shores of the lake had their seawalls heightened with sandbags to prevent the lake from entering their homes.
June 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Coeur D Alene	$20,000	no account filed
April 2000	Flash Flood	Coeur D Alene	$15,000	Due to heavy rain and snowmelt, rapid rises on the Wolf Lodge Creek caused several flooded basements and minor road damage.
July 2006	Lightning	Coeur D Alene	$15,000	no account filed
January 2000	Flood	Coeur D Alene	$15,000	no account filed
August 1998	Wildfire	Coeur D Alene	$10,000	Truck sparked a fire in a wheat field, damaging 15 acres of wheat and 1 acre of timber. Truck was also destroyed.
May 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Coeur D Alene	$10,000	tree in house from wind
July 1998	Flash Flood	Coeur D Alene	$5,000	heavy rains and local flooding in downtown Coeur d'Alene.
September 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Coeur D Alene	$2,000	The storm caused 1019 customers to lose power in Kootenai County. A gust of 54 MPH was recorded 2 miles South of Twin Lakes.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Coeur D Alene	$2,000	no account filed
July 2012	Lightning	Coeur D Alene	$1,000	Lightning struck and damaged the level sensor on the Tubbs Hill reservoir.
May 2023	Flash Flood	Coeur D Alene	$500	Heavy rainfall of near half an inch in an hour resulted standing water on several streets across Coeur D Alene. It included but was not limited to Government Way near I-90 and Appleway at 15th. Water depth ranged from 6 to 12 inches in spots. Radar estimated near 1 inch of rain. CWOP station G1914 recorded 0.77 of an inch of rain.
August 2019	Hail	Coeur D Alene	-	A member of the public reported hail covering the ground to a depth of 2 inches with a maximum hail size of 1.5 inches.
March 2012	Flood	Coeur D Alene	-	Blue Creek Road washed out near Yellowstone Trail.
March 2012	Flood	Coeur D Alene	-	Flooding was reported along several low spots along Highway 97 between Cataldo and Harrison. While the exact location was unknown, some residents were forced to sandbag to avoid flooded creeks from seeping into their homes.
March 2012	Flood	Coeur D Alene	-	Excess runoff from heavy rain and snow melt resulted in sharp rises of Lake Coeur D Alene and minor flooding of its tributaries. Kid Island Bay Road which parallels the eastern shores of Kid Island Bay, a small outlet on the northwestern sections of Lake Coeur D Alene, had several inches of water over the roadway.
August 1999	Heavy Rain	Coeur D Alene	-	4-6" inches of rain overnight. One boat sunk from accumulated rain water.
August 1999	Hail	Coeur D Alene	-	3/4" hail
June 2010	Heavy Rain	Coeur D Alene	-	no account filed
July 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Coeur D Alene	-	no account filed
March 2006	Heavy Rain	Coeur D Alene	-	no account filed
May 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Coeur D Alene	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Kootenai 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
Boyd and Alta Hamilton House	under 500 feet	2021
Roosevelt School	under 500 feet	1976
Inland Empire Electric Railway Substation	0.2 miles	1975
Harvey M. Davey House	0.2 miles	1985
Coeur d'Alene Federal Building	0.3 miles	1977
Sherman Park Addition	0.3 miles	1992

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 77000462 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Kootenai County	All 45 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.