William Hopkins House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

From the record

One of 14 National Register listings published here for Caribou County · listed in 1979 · category: Building.

Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Hopkins, William, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. E. Hooper Ave., Soda Springs, 83276
When was it listed? January 1979
Category. building
Census division. Soda Springs
National Register reference number. 79000787 - 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

24 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of William Hopkins House between 1992 and 2019, burning about 1,173 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 1 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	7
Natural	6
Debris and open burning	3
Recreation and ceremony	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Arson/incendiarism	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
3 September 1993	Power generation/transmission/distribution	4.0 acres	Idaho Falls District	HOOPER I
3 September 1993	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Idaho Falls District	COOPER II
8 August 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	350 acres	Idaho Falls District	CARIBOU COUNTY ASSIST 1
6 August 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	250 acres	Idaho Falls District	CARIBOU COUNTY ASSIST 1
4 August 2000	Natural	38 acres	Idaho Falls District	SODA SPRNG
30 August 2011	Natural	under an acre	Caribou-Targhee National Forest	ELK HORN
24 August 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Idaho Falls District	SULPHUR 2
21 August 1992	Natural	230 acres	Idaho Falls District	BAILEY CR

Every fire recorded in Caribou County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 20 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 20 workings within 5 miles of William Hopkins House: 5 past producers, 4 occurrences, 4 unknowns, 3 prospects. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Geothermal, Sulfur, Vanadium, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
East of Soda Springs	Limestone, General	Unknown
Hooper Spring	Manganese	Prospect	1963
Monsanto Elemental Phosphorus Plant	Phosphorus-Phosphates	Plant
Monsato Quartzite Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Kerr Mcgee Limestone	Stone, Dimension	Unknown
Monsanta Plant-Ore	Stone, Dimension	Unknown
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Kerr Mcgee Vanadium Plant	Vanadium	Producer
Phosphoria Shale	Vanadium	Prospect	SYNGENETIC SEDIMENT-HOSTED (CARBON-RICH)

Every working recorded in Caribou County

Storms near this property

1 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Soda Springs, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 1996: 1 heavy rain. 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 1996	Heavy Rain	Soda Springs	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Caribou 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

4 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
Soda Springs City Hall	0.5 miles	1993
Caribou County Courthouse	0.6 miles	1987
Enders Hotel	0.6 miles	1993
Edgar Walter Largilliere Sr. House	0.6 miles	1991

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 79000787 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Caribou County	All 14 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.