Genesee Exchange Bank

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

From the record

“The Genesee Exchange Bank is a bank building located on Walnut Street in Genesee, Idaho, United States. The Classical Revival building features extensive terra cotta decorations, including an Ionic column at the entrance and a frieze ornamented with garlands.”
Wikipedia article Genesee Exchange Bank, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 58 National Register listings published here for Latah 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. Walnut St., Genesee, 83832
When was it listed? January 1979
Category. building
Census division. Genesee
Architectural style. Neoclassical architecture
National Register reference number. 79000796 - 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

2 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Genesee Exchange Bank between 2000 and 2018, burning about 420 acres in total. None 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
Debris and open burning	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
16 August 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	20 acres	Nez Perce Tribe	BORDER
14 August 2000	Debris and open burning	400 acres	Nez Perce Tribe	GENESEHILL

Every fire recorded in Latah County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Genesee Exchange Bank: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Silica, 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.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Mason-Dixon Mine	Silica, Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer	Unconsolidated Sediments

Every working recorded in Latah County

Storms near this property

4 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Genesee, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 2010 and 2014: 2 funnel cloud, 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
January 2010	Flood	Genesee	$89,000	no account filed
August 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Genesee	$5,000	A large tree and several power lines were blown down in Moscow resulting in 5000 power outages.
April 2012	Funnel Cloud	Genesee	-	The media relayed a report and pictures of a funnel cloud that was sighted on the Lewiston Grade, roughly five miles northwest of Genesee between 1605 and 1610 PDT.
June 2011	Funnel Cloud	Genesee	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Latah 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
Vollmer Building	under 500 feet	1979
Nordby Farmstead	1.2 miles	2009
White Spring Ranch	2.2 miles	2004
Cordelia Lutheran Church	7.9 miles	1995

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 79000796 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Latah County	All 58 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.