Murray Courthouse

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.

From the record

One of 27 National Register listings published here for Shoshone 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 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. Main St., Murray, 83874
When was it listed? November 1978
Category. building
Census division. Murray
National Register reference number. 78001098 - 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

66 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 66 fires within 5 miles of Murray Courthouse between 1993 and 2019, burning about 2,792 acres in total. 54 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
Natural	54
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Smoking	2
Debris and open burning	2
Recreation and ceremony	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
9 September 2006	Natural	under an acre	Idaho Panhandle National Forest	MONARCH
1 September 1999	Natural	under an acre	Idaho Panhandle National Forest	HORSE SHOE 27
8 August 2003	Natural	1.0 acres	Idaho Panhandle National Forest	KINGS
7 August 1994	Natural	under an acre	Idaho Panhandle National Forest	not named
6 August 2004	Natural	under an acre	Idaho Panhandle National Forest	FANCY HORNET
4 August 2014	Natural	under an acre	Idaho Panhandle National Forest	DELTA
4 August 2004	Natural	under an acre	Idaho Panhandle National Forest	LITTLE BALDY
30 August 2017	Natural	under an acre	Idaho Panhandle National Forest	TOBOGGAN

Every fire recorded in Shoshone County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 126 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 126 workings within 5 miles of Murray Courthouse: 56 past producers, 22 occurrences, 19 unknowns, 17 prospects. 12 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Lead, Silver, Copper. 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
Anchor Mine	Silver, Copper, Gold, Lead, Zinc	Past Producer
Buckskin Gold and Silver Prospect	Silver, Gold, Lead, Zinc, Copper	Producer	Chalcopyrite, Galena, Gold, Sphalerite
Clear Grit and Rooster Goose Mine	Lead, Silver, Copper, Gold, Zinc	Past Producer	1908
Eagle Creek	Silver, Copper	Prospect	1974
Four Square Mine	Lead, Tungsten, Silver, Gold, Zinc, Copper	Producer	1884
Friday	Copper, Tungsten, Silver, Lead, Gold	Past Producer
Giant Ledge Mine	Lead, Silver, Gold, Copper	Past Producer
Gold Back Prospect	Silver, Lead, Zinc, Copper, Gold	Occurrence	Chalcopyrite, Galena, Sphalerite
Gold Back Prospect	Copper, Lead, Silver, Zinc, Gold	Past Producer
Gold Coin Mine	Gold, Lead, Copper, Tungsten	Past Producer	Gold, Scheelite

Every working recorded in Shoshone County

Storms near this property

2 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Murray, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports in 2007: 1 hail, 1 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
July 2007	Hail	Murray	-	no account filed
March 2007	Flood	Murray	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Shoshone 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
	Murray Masonic Hall	under 500 feet	1987
	John C. Feehan House	0.2 miles	1980

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 78001098 in Record Group 79.
Shoshone County	All 27 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.