Built in 1908 (Colonial Revival architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.
From the record
“The Mountain Home Carnegie Library, at 180 S. 3rd St. East, in Mountain Home, Idaho, was built as a Carnegie library in 1908.”
Wikipedia article Mountain Home Carnegie Library, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 23 National Register listings published here for Elmore County · listed in 1978 · category: Building · built in 1908, Colonial Revival architecture, by Tourtellotte & Hummel.
National Register reference number.78001061- 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
46 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 46 fires within 5 miles of Mountain Home Carnegie Library
between 1992 and 2019, burning about 3,973 acres in total. 9 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
16
Equipment and vehicle use
9
Natural
9
Fireworks
3
Power generation/transmission/distribution
3
Other causes
2
Firearms and explosives use
2
Arson/incendiarism
1
Misuse of fire by a minor
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
8 workings within 5 miles of Mountain Home Carnegie Library: 6 past producers, 2 producers.
2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Mountain Home, the town this property stands in, in 13 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 5 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 wildfire, 1 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.
A large tree partially was uprooted and fell on house near East Second Avenue in Mountain Home. Numerous small branches were down with diameters of 1 to 2 inches. A Porta Potty was blown over near Rosewood Park. Damage occurred during a thunderstorm with brief heavy rain which was described as wet downburst.
A fire that was determined to be "human caused" burned 23,960 acres near Mountain Home. The Oregon Trail Fire, so named because it followed the path of the old pioneer trail, burned across Highway20, prompting a 5 hour closure of the road and at times threatened several homes. Several outbuildings and haystacks were destroyed and although some residents were temporarily evacuated, no homes were burned. The fire was contained on the 10th with suppression costs reaching $550K. Damage estimates were unavailable.
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.
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.
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