Minidoka Internment National Monument

Built in 2001. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

From the record

One of 64 National Register listings published here for Jerome County · listed in 1979 · category: Site · built in 2001.

Sources: 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 site as contributing to the listing.
Address. Hunt Rd., Hunt, 83338
When was it listed? July 1979
Category. site
Census division. Hunt
When was it built? 2001
National Register reference number. 79000791 - 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

37 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 37 fires within 5 miles of Minidoka Internment National Monument between 1992 and 2020, burning about 7,830 acres in total. 8 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
Equipment and vehicle use	12
Natural	8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Power generation/transmission/distribution	5
Debris and open burning	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Arson/incendiarism	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
25 September 2003	Arson/incendiarism	872 acres	Twin Falls District	HWY25MM17
19 September 2017	Power generation/transmission/distribution	8.0 acres	Twin Falls District	SUGAR LOAF
14 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	5,176 acres	Twin Falls District	WILSON
13 September 2009	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Twin Falls District	EDEN
27 August 1992	Equipment and vehicle use	75 acres	Twin Falls District	HWY25MP15W
24 August 1999	Natural	1.5 acres	Twin Falls District	GOOSELAKE
22 August 2005	Natural	12 acres	Twin Falls District	HWY25 MM16
20 August 1996	Railroad operations and maintenance	10 acres	Twin Falls District	GOOSE

Every fire recorded in Jerome County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Minidoka Internment National Monument: 3 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. 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
Clay Caves	Clay	Unknown
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

Every working recorded in Jerome 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
Tom Barnes Barn	2.5 miles	1983
J. W. and Rachel Newman House and Bunkhouse	3.9 miles	1983
Bethune-Ayres House	5.8 miles	1983
Sugarloaf School	5.9 miles	1983
Thomason Rice Barn	6.9 miles	1983
Ben Laughlin Water Tank House-Garage	6.9 miles	1983

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 79000791 in Record Group 79.
Jerome County	All 64 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.