Buhl City Hall

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.

From the record

“The Buhl City Hall, at Broadway and Elm St. in Buhl, Idaho was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.”
Wikipedia article Buhl City Hall, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 40 National Register listings published here for Twin Falls 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. Broadway and Elm St., Buhl, 83316
When was it listed? February 1978
Category. building
Census division. Buhl
National Register reference number. 78001099 - 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

4 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Buhl City Hall between 2006 and 2016, burning about 28 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	1
Smoking	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
18 July 2011	Smoking	1.0 acres	Idaho Falls District	CLEAR LAKES
12 July 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.4 acres	Twin Falls District	RURAL ASSIST 3
26 June 2006	Debris and open burning	4.6 acres	Idaho Falls District	GUN CLUB
16 June 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20 acres	Idaho Falls District	RURAL ASSIST 2

Every fire recorded in Twin Falls County

Mines and quarries near this property

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Buhl City Hall: 4 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold, Chromium, Iron, Stone. 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
Snake River Placers	Gold, Chromium, Iron	Past Producer	1862
State Pit Tf 79	Stone	Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Twin Falls County

Storms near this property

5 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Buhl, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 1996 and 2019: 2 hail, 1 heavy rain, 1 tornado, 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
September 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Buhl	-	A trained spotter reported large trees branches down near Buhl.
May 1998	Tornado (F0)	Buhl	-	A thunderstorm produced a weak tornado near Buhl. Numerous spotters reported a funnel cloud which briefly touched down and was photographed by a local newspaper. The tornado was short lived and produced no known damage over open and unpopulated terrain.
May 2005	Hail	Buhl	-	no account filed
May 1998	Hail	Buhl	-	no account filed
May 1996	Heavy Rain	Buhl	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Twin Falls 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
Hotel Buhl	under 500 feet	1985
Buhl IOOF Building	under 500 feet	1984
Ramona Theater	0.1 miles	1976
US Post Office-Buhl Main	0.1 miles	1989
Dau-Webbenhorst Barn	1.9 miles	1983
Art and Frieda Maxwell Barn	2.7 miles	1983

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 78001099 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Twin Falls County	All 40 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.