David C. Chase House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.

From the record

One of 15 National Register listings published here for Payette County · listed in 1978 · category: Building.

Sources: 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. Chase, David C., House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 307 9th St., N., Payette, 83661
When was it listed? February 1978
Category. building
Census division. Payette
Architectural style. Queen Anne style architecture in the United States
National Register reference number. 78001091 - 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

5 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of David C. Chase House between 1995 and 2007, burning about 313 acres in total. 1 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
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Debris and open burning	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Natural	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
1 September 2007	Natural	5.0 acres	Boise District	ANNEX
4 August 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	39 acres	Boise District	PLAYDOH
21 August 1995	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	76 acres	Boise District	CLAY PT.
21 July 2000	Debris and open burning	184 acres	Boise District	HOT TRASH
6 June 2001	Equipment and vehicle use	9.0 acres	Boise District	MTRCYCLEPK

Every fire recorded in Payette County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 45 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 45 workings within 5 miles of David C. Chase House: 21 past producers, 16 producers, 6 prospects, 2 occurrences. 16 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay. 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
Jensen Clay Mine	Brick Clay, Kaolin	Past Producer	Illite
Malheur Butte Springs	Geothermal	Occurrence
Clay, Industrial, Jensen Brick Co	Clay	Past Producer
Payette	Clay	Occurrence
Quarry	Stone	Past Producer
Quarry	Stone	Past Producer
Unnamed Site	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Unnamed Site	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Allen Site	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Allen Site	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Payette County

Storms near this property

11 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Payette, the town this property stands in, in 11 storm reports between 1995 and 2022: 5 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 2 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 2010	Flood	Payette	$1,000,000	Moderate flooding occured in and around Payette along the Payette River.
April 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Payette	$500,000	A large organized area of convection produced winds in excess of 60 mph from Rome, Oregon to Payette, Idaho, a storm path of over 130 miles with a width of up to 100 miles, from Baker City, Oregon to just northwest of Boise, with reports being received over a four hour period. The storm displayed characteristics of a large bow echo, which is not commonly observed west of the Continental Divide. Winds were measured over 60 mph at a number of locations, and trees were knocked over causing blackouts and damaging homes.
June 2022	Hail	Payette	-	A spotter reported quarter size hail.
June 2022	Hail	Payette	-	A member of the public posted a photo of this hail on Facebook.
May 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Payette	-	The Emergency Manager command post reported wind damage and power outages across Payette County due to thunderstorm outflow winds out of the southeast.
April 2012	Flood	Payette	-	A National Weather Service employee surveyed the Payette River near Payette and observed the river was out of bank and flooding fields and homes along State Highway 52.
May 2009	Hail	Payette	-	A trained spotter 1.5 miles west of Payette reported one inch hail.
May 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Payette	-	Winds generated by a severe thunderstorm ripped the roof off of a trailer home in Payette, Idaho.
July 1995	Hail	Payette	-	Severe thunderstorms brought gusty winds to Boise causing some minor damage. Trees three-to four-feet in diameter were broken in two pieces. In Challis tree limbs were broken off while in Salmon and Arco sheds were mangled. In Soda Springs high winds toppled a tree and in Emmett fallen trees smashed a car. A house in Blackfoot was struck by lightning and a fire was started only causing minor damage. In McCall a man was struck and killed by lightning at a rodeo. Twelve others were injured by the strike. ILLINOIS, Northeast
July 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Payette	-	no account filed
July 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Payette	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Payette 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
Payette City Hall and Courthouse	under 500 feet	1979
Portia Club	under 500 feet	2010
A. B. Moss Building	0.1 miles	1978
St. James Episcopal Church	0.2 miles	1978
Coughanour Apartment Block	0.2 miles	1978
US Post Office-Payette Main	0.2 miles	1989

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 78001091 in Record Group 79.
Payette County	All 15 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.