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Jim Moore Place

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.

From the record

“The Jim Moore Place in Salmon River Canyon near Dixie in Idaho County, Idaho dates from 1898, when Jim Moore and C. The house and eight other buildings which followed in the next 15 years were log buildings, with logs hewn by broad axe.”

Wikipedia article Jim Moore Place, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 42 National Register listings published here for Idaho County · listed in 1978 · category: District.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • Listed as. Moore, Jim, Place - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. Salmon River Canyon, Dixie, 83525
  • When was it listed? March 1978
  • Category. district
  • Census division. Elk City
  • National Register reference number. 78001063 - 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

68 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 68 fires within 5 miles of Jim Moore Place between 1992 and 2017, burning about 19,604 acres in total. 66 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
Natural66
Other causes1
Debris and open burning1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
8 September 1997Natural7.0 acresPayette National ForestTROUT PNF
5 September 2003Naturalunder an acrePayette National ForestLEMHI POINT
3 September 2011Natural490 acresPayette National ForestBURNT KNOB
17 September 2001Naturalunder an acreNez Perce - Clearwater National ForestsELKHORN
16 September 2001Naturalunder an acrePayette National ForestELKHORN
15 September 2006Naturalunder an acreNez Perce - Clearwater National ForestsRABBIT
15 September 1992Naturalunder an acreNez Perce - Clearwater National Forestsnot named
15 September 1992Naturalunder an acreNez Perce - Clearwater National Forestsnot named

Every fire recorded in Idaho 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 Jim Moore Place: 6 occurrences, 5 past producers, 1 unknown, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Iron, Titanium, Garnet, Iron, Titanium, Titanium, Garnet, Iron, Silver. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Big Mallard BarGold, Garnet, Titanium, IronPast ProducerPlacer
Churchill Creek ProspectSilverOccurrenceSilver
Hermit Hanks ProspectCopper, Zinc, Antimony, LeadProspect
Moore BarGold, Titanium, Garnet, Iron, SilverPast ProducerPlacer
Gaines BarGold, Garnet, Iron, TitaniumPast ProducerPlacer
Gold Dust Sonny PlacerGold, Garnet, Iron, TitaniumPast Producer1957
Groundhog Bar PlacerGold, Garnet, Iron, TitaniumPast ProducerPlacer
Hermit Hanks Bar PlacerGold, Iron, TitaniumOccurrencePlacer
Julie Creek Bar PlacerGold, Iron, TitaniumOccurrencePlacer
Lemhi Bar PlacerGold, Iron, TitaniumOccurrencePlacer

Every working recorded in Idaho County

Storms near this property

4 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dixie, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 1997 and 2006: 2 hail, 1 flash 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2006Thunderstorm WindDixie-no account filed
June 2004HailDixie-no account filed
July 2002Flash FloodDixie-no account filed
August 1997HailDixie-no account filed

Every storm 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

1 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 PropertyDistance Listed
Campbell's Ferry0.4 miles2007

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 78001063 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Idaho CountyAll 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.
  • 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.