Fish Creek Dam

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.

From the record

“Fish Creek Dam in Blaine County, Idaho, is an aging multiple-arch concrete dam that has achieved historic status and now represents some threat to public safety, due to danger of it failing. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.”
Wikipedia article Fish Creek Dam, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 21 National Register listings published here for Blaine County · listed in 1978 · category: Structure.

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 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. NE of Carey, Carey, 83320
When was it listed? December 1978
Category. structure
Census division. Carey
National Register reference number. 78003437 - 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 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Fish Creek Dam between 2005 and 2019, burning about 124 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
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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 2009	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Twin Falls District	MM 214
18 July 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.5 acres	Twin Falls District	RURAL ASSIST 2
15 June 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.2 acres	Twin Falls District	HIGHLINE CANAL
7 October 2005	Power generation/transmission/distribution	120 acres	Twin Falls District	FISH CREEK

Every fire recorded in Blaine County

Storms near this property

11 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Carey, the town this property stands in, in 11 storm reports between 1996 and 2020: 7 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 1 lightning, 1 hail. 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
May 2005	Tornado (F0)	Carey	$110,000	M & J Auto Body Repair shop had roof lifted off building. Top two rows of cinder blocks blew down and some away from structure. Adamson's Shell Service Station sustained minor roof damage. One trailer at MK Trailers was lifted by tornado and flew through the air across the road some 100 yards. Many homes lost roof shingles. Several metal road signs bent in half. Many large tree limbs twisted off and/or broken. Empty gas tank at the airport blown off stand. Power poles and lines downed.
February 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Carey	$10,000	Wheel line irrigations systems damaged.
May 2005	Tornado (F0)	Carey	$9,000	Did damage to two wheel-line irrigation systems and two center pivot irrigation systems.
August 2016	Lightning	Carey	$1,000	A lightning strike on August 18th caused damage at the Carey School in Blaine County. Problems occurred with the operations of the fire systems, the water irrigation system pump and the school district's connection to the heating and cooling systems.\|No events found.
May 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Carey	-	Portions of a 2 by 4 storage shed had sheet metal and wood blown across a yard 1 mile east of Carey.
May 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Carey	-	Three trees along with power lines were downed across Little Wood Reservoir Road just north of Carey. It was very near N Main St or US Highway 20. 700 customers were without power in the towns of Carey, Picabo, and Gannett.
April 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Carey	-	A 58 mph gust measured at Potter Butte.
June 2017	Hail	Carey	-	One inch hail occurred near Carey.
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Carey	-	A 65 mph wind gust measured 13 miles south of Craters of the Moon.
July 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Carey	-	The Cox's Well ARL site measured a thunderstorm wind gust of 67 mph.
August 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Carey	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Blaine 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 78003437 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Blaine County	All 21 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.
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.