BlockFrom the record
One of 45 National Register listings published here for Kootenai County · listed in 1979 · category: District.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Spirit Lake Historic District
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.
The listing
- Address. Maine St., Spirit Lake, 83869
- When was it listed? February 1979
- Category. district
- Census division. Spirit Lake-Athol
- National Register reference number. 79000795 - 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
108 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 108 fires within 5 miles of Spirit Lake Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 177 acres in total. 21 started naturally. 5 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 35 |
| Natural | 21 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 20 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 11 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 6 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 5 |
| Smoking | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Fireworks | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2000 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Idaho Department of Lands | N. EDWARDS PILE |
| 8 September 2000 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Idaho Department of Lands | CHARGER |
| 5 September 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Idaho Department of Lands | CONVERTER |
| 5 September 1993 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Idaho Department of Lands | SPIRIT CAVES |
| 29 September 2001 | Natural | under an acre | Idaho Department of Lands | SPIRIT RIDGE |
| 26 September 2005 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Idaho Department of Lands | MARKER 16 |
| 25 September 2000 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Idaho Department of Lands | TREE FORT |
| 24 September 2012 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Idaho Department of Lands | CLAGSTONE 22 |
Mines and quarries near this property
7 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Spirit Lake Historic District: 5 past producers, 1 producer, 1 unknown. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clagst One Pit | Stone | Past Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Paisley Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
7 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Spirit Lake, the town this property stands in, in 7 storm reports between 1998 and 2022: 2 flood, 1 heavy rain, 1 thunderstorm wind, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2017 | Debris Flow | Spirit Lake | $900,000 | Snow melt and periodic heavy rain during the month of March caused numerous debris flows and areal flooding issues through out the county. A debris flow near Harrison forced the evacuation of a residential neighborhood with the land continuing to move through the beginning of April. Over 20 roads through out the county were washed out or cut by debris flows and numerous homes experienced basement and first floor flooding. Kootenai County was included in a Presidential Disaster Declaration as a result of the damage inflicted by this episode. |
| February 2014 | Flood | Spirit Lake | $160,000 | Heavy runoff led to several drive washouts for residents on hilly terrain across Kootenai County. A swollen Latour creek washed away a small levee and parcel of land that supported a shed at a private residence on South Latour Creek Road. |
| July 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Spirit Lake | $10,000 | small fire started from trees blowing onto power lines. |
| June 2022 | Funnel Cloud | Spirit Lake | - | Funnel cloud reported with no damage. |
| January 2012 | Flood | Spirit Lake | - | Several roads throughout Kootenai County experienced minor flooding. These roads included Highway 41 between Rathdrum and Spirit Lake, Old Highway 95 and Prairie View Road, along with several other secondary and private roadways. Widespread CocoRahs reports of two inches were received from the area. |
| June 1998 | Heavy Rain | Spirit Lake | - | .30 inches of rain in 15 minutes |
| June 2012 | Hail | Spirit Lake | - | no account filed |
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 milesOther 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Upper Twin Lakes School | 5.3 miles | 1985 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 79000795 in Record Group 79. |
| Kootenai County | All 45 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.