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Photograph of Meadows Schoolhouse
Photograph by JERRYE AND ROY KLOTZ MD, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Meadows Schoolhouse

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

From the record

“The Meadows Schoolhouse is a two-story schoolhouse building located in New Meadows, Idaho which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. It has a tin roof, like many other buildings in the area do, for shedding snow.”

Wikipedia article Meadows Schoolhouse, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 7 National Register listings published here for Adams County · listed in 1979 · 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. ID 55, New Meadows, 83654
  • When was it listed? October 1979
  • Category. building
  • Census division. New Meadows
  • National Register reference number. 79000769 - 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

89 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 89 fires within 5 miles of Meadows Schoolhouse between 1992 and 2020, burning about 56 acres in total. 45 started naturally. 3 were 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
Natural45
Recreation and ceremony14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Debris and open burning8
Equipment and vehicle use5
Smoking4
Arson/incendiarism3

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 2003Naturalunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsSIGN
8 September 1998Debris and open burning11 acresNorthern Idaho AgencyI DONT KNO
8 September 1995Naturalunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsPRONTO
7 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Idaho Timber Protective Association, Idaho Department of LandsPACKER JOHN
5 September 1993Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsCEMETERY
26 September 1999Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsLAST CHANCE
26 September 1994Smoking4.8 acresIdaho Department of LandsBIG CREEK
23 September 2001Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsSTEEL BELT

Every fire recorded in Adams County

Mines and quarries near this property

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Meadows Schoolhouse: 3 past producers, 2 occurrences, 2 prospects, 1 unknown. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Manganese, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Mica, Geothermal. 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
Krigbaum Hot SpringsGeothermalOccurrence
New Meadows State PitStoneProducer
Rock Flat PlacerGold, Corundum, Gemstone, REE, Garnet, Zirconium, TitaniumPast ProducerChromite, Corundum, Garnet, Gold, Ilmenite, Magnetite, Monazite, Platinum, Zircon
Clark Mica ProspectMicaProspect
Clark ProspectMicaProspect1940
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Manganese Mts.ManganeseUnknown
New Meadows Manganese DepositManganeseOccurrence

Every working recorded in Adams County

Storms near this property

2 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names New Meadows, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 2012 and 2020: 1 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 2020Thunderstorm WindNew Meadows-Downed trees and power lines blocked old Highway 95 near Hot Springs Road.
March 2012FloodNew Meadows-Several roads in New Meadows were flooded with water 1 to 2 feet deep including Hubbard Road and Main Street.

Every storm recorded in Adams 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 PropertyDistance Listed
Col. E. M. Heigho House1.9 miles1978
Pacific and Idaho Northern Railroad Depot2.1 miles1978

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 79000769 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Adams CountyAll 7 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.