Col. E. M. Heigho House

Built in 1911 (Georgian architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.

From the record

“Heigho House, on Idaho State Highway 55 in New Meadows, Idaho, was built in 1911. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.”
Wikipedia article Col. E. M. Heigho House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 7 National Register listings published here for Adams County · listed in 1978 · category: Building · built in 1911, Georgian 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.
Listed as. Heigho, Col. E. M., House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. ID 55, New Meadows, 83654
When was it listed? May 1978
Category. building
Census division. New Meadows
When was it built? 1911
Architectural style. Georgian architecture
National Register reference number. 78001041 - 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

79 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 79 fires within 5 miles of Col. E. M. Heigho House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 23 acres in total. 50 started naturally. 1 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	50
Debris and open burning	7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Recreation and ceremony	6
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Smoking	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Arson/incendiarism	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 2003	Natural	under an acre	Idaho Department of Lands	SIGN
7 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	South Idaho Timber Protective Association, Idaho Department of Lands	PACKER JOHN
6 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Idaho Department of Lands	MUD CREEK
5 September 2006	Natural	under an acre	Idaho Department of Lands	ROCK
5 September 1993	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Idaho Department of Lands	CEMETERY
4 September 2015	Natural	under an acre	Idaho Department of Lands	RUBICON
26 September 2017	Natural	under an acre	Idaho Department of Lands	MIDDLE MUD
26 September 1994	Smoking	4.8 acres	Idaho Department of Lands	BIG CREEK

Every fire recorded in Adams County

Mines and quarries near this property

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Col. E. M. Heigho House: 3 occurrences, 3 prospects, 1 unknown, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Manganese, Geothermal, Mica, Chromium. 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
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
New Meadows State Pit	Stone	Producer
Rose Marie Prospect	Chromium	Prospect	Chromite
Clark Mica Prospect	Mica	Prospect
Clark Prospect	Mica	Prospect	1940
Krigbaum Hot Springs	Geothermal	Occurrence
Manganese Mts.	Manganese	Unknown
New Meadows Manganese Deposit	Manganese	Occurrence
Zims Resort Hot Springs	Geothermal	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Adams County

Storms near this property

2 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names New Meadows, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 2012 and 2020: 1 flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
May 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	New Meadows	-	Downed trees and power lines blocked old Highway 95 near Hot Springs Road.
March 2012	Flood	New Meadows	-	Several roads in New Meadows were flooded with water 1 to 2 feet deep including Hubbard Road and Main Street.

Every storm recorded in Adams 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
	Pacific and Idaho Northern Railroad Depot	0.3 miles	1978
	Meadows Schoolhouse	1.9 miles	1979

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 78001041 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Adams County	All 7 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.