St. Gertrude's Convent and Chapel

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

From the record

“The Monastery of Saint Gertrude is an American monastery of Benedictine nuns near Cottonwood, Idaho. Andrew's Abbey, Sarnen, Switzerland, who immigrated to the United States in 1882, it was designated the motherhouse for the community in 1909.”
Wikipedia article St. Gertrude's Convent and Chapel, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 42 National Register listings published here for Idaho 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 Wikipedia article

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. W of Cottonwood, Cottonwood, 83522
When was it listed? June 1979
Category. building
Census division. Cottonwood
National Register reference number. 79000790 - 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

18 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of St. Gertrude's Convent and Chapel between 2001 and 2020, burning about 21 acres in total. 11 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	11
Debris and open burning	3
Recreation and ceremony	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2

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
6 September 2019	Natural	under an acre	Idaho Department of Lands	RAD HAY
27 September 2001	Natural	under an acre	Idaho Department of Lands	KEUTERVILLE
12 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Idaho Department of Lands	RADAR
8 August 2005	Natural	under an acre	Idaho Department of Lands	LOWER BUTTE
6 August 2009	Natural	under an acre	Idaho Department of Lands	LEGENDARY
26 August 2013	Natural	under an acre	Idaho Department of Lands	ONE AM
2 August 2014	Natural	under an acre	Idaho Department of Lands	COTTON
19 August 2020	Natural	under an acre	Craig Mountain Area Office	DOCK BUTTE

Every fire recorded in Idaho 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 St. Gertrude's Convent and Chapel: 4 producers, 3 past producers, 1 occurrence, 1 unknown. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Gold, Silver, Platinum. 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
Cottonwood Butte	Gold, Silver, Platinum, Copper	Past Producer	Gold
Cottonwood Clay Occurrence No. 25 Prospect	Clay	Occurrence	Clay
Borrow Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Willemburg Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Cottonwood Quarry	Stone	Producer
Id 48 Quarry	Stone	Producer
Idaho 48 Quarry	Stone	Producer
State Pit 425-048	Stone	Unknown

Every working recorded in Idaho County

Storms near this property

7 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cottonwood, the town this property stands in, in 7 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 5 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 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
August 2022	Hail	Cottonwood	$50,000	Significant hail damage to multiple residences was observed, including broken windows, damaged siding, and crop losses. Wind driven hail broke through windows. Canola and wheat crops were flattened. A vineyard near Cottonwood was stripped by hail.
July 1995	Hail	Cottonwood	$50,000	Several severe thunderstorms moved through the state of Idaho. One thunderstorm in Northern Idaho produced hail .75 inch to 1.50 inches in diameter and high winds that downed power lines and trees in Nez Perce, Lewis, Latah, Shoshone, and Idaho counties. In thirty minutes, one inch of rain fell just northwest of Mountain Home. Winds gusting to 60 miles per hour occured at Osbourne, Sturgell Mountain, Rupert, and Minidoka Dam. One inch hail fell near Cottonwood and 1.50 inches hail fell at near Grangeville. This storm damaged the wheat and barley crops at a 100 percent loss in the Cottonwood area. Just south of Cottonwood trees were uprooted and the roof of an apartment building was torn off causing extensive property damage. This area also suffered a power outage. On Highway 95 near Lewiston Hill near Moscow two tractor-semitrailer were overturned by gusty winds. Power outages, telephone lines, trees downed, fire started by lightning caused damaged to an office building in Winchester. In the Peck area trees were downed and heavy rain caused visiblity to decrease to zero at times. Winds at Fenn and Cottonwood shattered windows and hail dented automobiles. In Southwest Idaho, lightning ignited nine grass fires. The largest was only 200 acres and all fires were contained quickly. The Moscow-Pullman Airport lost power to their runway lights until 2130 MST. They had to divert and cancel flights. Lake Coeur d'Alene had eight foot swells causing a dock to be torn apart. In Silver Valley, gusty winds to 60 mph downed power lines and trees. Silver Valley was also without power for a short period of time.
August 2024	Hail	Cottonwood	-	A trained spotted called in to report one inch hail at 17:06 PDT from Cottonwood, ID.
June 2015	Heavy Rain	Cottonwood	-	Trained spotter reported heavy rain with 0.5 inches of accumulation, pea size hail, and estimated 50 mph winds.
June 2010	Hail	Cottonwood	-	Quarter size hail was reported by the public in Cottonwood, lasting 10 to 15 minutes.
June 2006	Hail	Cottonwood	-	no account filed
July 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Cottonwood	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Idaho 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

1 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
	James V. and Sophia Baker House	2.2 miles	2004

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 79000790 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Idaho County	All 42 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.