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Montpelier Odd Fellows Hall

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.

From the record

“The Montpelier Odd Fellows Hall is an Independent Order of Odd Fellows meeting hall located at 843 Washington St. in Montpelier, Idaho. The Renaissance Revival building was constructed in 1898-99.”
Wikipedia article Montpelier Odd Fellows Hall, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 92 National Register listings published here for Bear Lake County · listed in 1978 · 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. 843 Washington St., Montpelier, 83254
When was it listed? April 1978
Category. building
Census division. Montpelier
Architectural style. Renaissance Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 78001048 - 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

6 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Montpelier Odd Fellows Hall between 1992 and 2000, burning about 261 acres in total. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Debris and open burning	2
Smoking	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
16 August 1994	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Caribou-Targhee National Forest	not named
28 July 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	49 acres	Idaho Falls District	BNK VLY II
18 July 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Caribou-Targhee National Forest	not named
8 April 1992	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Caribou-Targhee National Forest	not named
6 April 1992	Debris and open burning	49 acres	Caribou-Targhee National Forest	not named
14 March 1994	Smoking	160 acres	Idaho Falls District	MONTPELIER

Every fire recorded in Bear Lake County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Montpelier Odd Fellows Hall: 5 occurrences, 5 past producers, 3 producers, 2 prospects. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Gypsum-Anhydrite, Limestone, General. 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
Waterloo Mine	Phosphorus-Phosphates, Oil Shale, Fluorine-Fluorite, REE, Uranium, Vanadium	Past Producer	1907
Montpelier Canyon Gypsum Deposit	Gypsum-Anhydrite	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Montpelier Limestone Quarry	Limestone, General	Past Producer	1908
Owen Quarry	Limestone, General	Producer
Unnamed Gypsum Deposit	Gypsum-Anhydrite	Prospect
Bennington Canyon Mine	Phosphorus-Phosphates	Past Producer	1941
Home Canyon Mine	Phosphorus-Phosphates	Past Producer	Bedded - Phosphate
Phosphate Deposit	Phosphorus-Phosphates	Occurrence
Unnamed Location	Phosphorus-Phosphates	Occurrence
Bear Lake Concrete	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Bear Lake County

Storms near this property

22 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Montpelier, the town this property stands in, in 22 storm reports between 1997 and 2026: 14 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 3 flood, 1 tornado. 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
August 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Montpelier	$70,000	no account filed
June 1998	Tornado (F0)	Montpelier	$20,000	no account filed
July 2011	Flood	Montpelier	$2,000	Extensive lowland and field flooding continued through much of July along the Bear River upstream of Stewart Dam. Water continued to surround a couple homes in the dingle area and water continued to impact a portion of Pegram Road near the town of Pegram. Water levels on the river receded considerably beginning July 24th.
September 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Montpelier	$1,000	Trees reported down in Montpelier on Eastshore Road and Highway 89 with carport roof blown off as well in the town.
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Montpelier	$400	A large tree snapped due to a strong thunderstorm wind on July 4th.
May 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Montpelier	$300	no account filed
April 2026	Thunderstorm Wind	Montpelier	-	The Sheep Creek Hills mesonet site recorded a 59 mph thunderstorm outflow wind gust.
May 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Montpelier	-	The Sheep Creek Hills mesonet station PC506 recorded a 63 mph wind gust.
May 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Montpelier	-	The Sheep Creek Hills mesonet site recorded a 58 mph wind gust.
July 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Montpelier	-	A 64 mph wind gust was measured at the Sheep Creek Hills PACIFICORP mesonet site.
December 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Montpelier	-	A 66 mph wind gust was measured at the mesonet station PC506 Sheep Hills Creek.
July 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Montpelier	-	Sheep Creek Hills mesonet site recorded a 62 mph wind gust.
August 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Montpelier	-	A 59 mph thunderstorm outflow wind measured at Sheep Creek Hills Pacificorp mesonet site.
June 2018	Flash Flood	Montpelier	-	A strong thunderstorm dumped heavy rain and hail on Montpelier. Washington Street, one of the main streets in the city, had several inches of water running on it. Extensive hail fell as well with some small branches and limbs downed from trees and minor crop damage reported.
May 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Montpelier	-	Spotter measured a 65 mph wind gust west of Montpelier.
May 2016	Hail	Montpelier	-	One inch hail in Montpelier with small branches stripped off trees.
June 2011	Hail	Montpelier	-	A trained spotter reported 2 inch hail in Montpelier.
June 2011	Hail	Montpelier	-	One inch hail reported by spotter 1 mile north of Montpelier.
June 2011	Flood	Montpelier	-	Extensive lowland and field flooding occurred along the Bear River upstream of Stewart Dam. Two homes in the dingle area were surrounded by water. Waterh encroached on some outbuildings and agricultural supp0lies were flooded in low lying areas. Water covered a portion of Pegram Road near the town of Pegram. The Bear border river gauge was inundated with water. Extensive flooding of fields occurred along the lower end of teh Thomas Fork near the confluence with the Bear River.
May 2011	Flood	Montpelier	-	Extensive lowland and field flooding occurred along the Bear River upstream of Stewart Dam. Two homes in the dingle area surrounded by water. Water covered a portion of Pegram Road near the town of Pegram. Water flowed across Poverty Flat Road near the intersection with Pegram Road. Extensive lowland flooding also occurred along the Thomas Fork near the Wyoming Border. Water flowed across county roads and some livestock corrals were inundated with water. Humerous small creeks draining east into Bear River and Bear Lake exceeded their banks and caused damage and washouts along back country roads. Montpelier Creek caused flooding of some prpoerties in the canyon east of the town of Montpelier.
August 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Montpelier	-	Spotter reported 61 mph wind gust.
July 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Montpelier	-	A 65 mph wind gust was measured from thunderstorm wind in Montpelier.

Every storm recorded in Bear Lake 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
Montpelier Historic District	0.3 miles	1978
John A. Bagley House	0.6 miles	1978
Franklin Rogers Bungalow	6.0 miles	1982
Oren Law House and Outbuildings	7.1 miles	1982
Hoffman Barn	7.4 miles	1982
Grunder Cabin and Outbuildings	7.5 miles	1982

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 78001048 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Bear Lake County	All 92 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.