Bethany Memorial Chapel

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

From the record

“Bethany Memorial Chapel was built by Norwegian homesteaders who settled in the Big Bear Ridge area north of Kendrick in rural Latah County, Idaho. Norwegians who had settled in the area met at the home of Edward Dahl on July 21, 1902, for the purpose of organizing a Lutheran church in the area.”
Wikipedia article Bethany Memorial Chapel, 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. Kendrick-Deary Hwy., Kendrick, 83537
When was it listed? December 1979
Category. building
Census division. Troy-Juliaetta-Kendrick
Architectural style. Carpenter Gothic
National Register reference number. 79000798 - 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

63 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 63 fires within 5 miles of Bethany Memorial Chapel between 1992 and 2020, burning about 440 acres in total. 33 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	33
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12
Equipment and vehicle use	9
Debris and open burning	7
Smoking	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 1996	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Idaho Department of Lands	HAY TRUCK
8 September 1998	Natural	under an acre	Idaho Department of Lands	SPERRY PINE
3 September 2011	Natural	1.0 acres	Idaho Department of Lands	PINE CREEK
23 September 2002	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Idaho Department of Lands	SPERRY GRADE
20 September 2016	Debris and open burning	12 acres	Idaho Department of Lands	DRY CREEK
15 September 2000	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Idaho Department of Lands	BURNT RIDGE GRASS
14 September 1995	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Idaho Department of Lands	AMERICAN RIDGE
1 September 2007	Smoking	under an acre	Idaho Department of Lands	KENDRICK GRADE

Every fire recorded in Latah County

Mines and quarries near this property

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Bethany Memorial Chapel: 3 occurrences, 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Kyanite, Copper. 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
Cedar Creek Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Copper Chief Mine	Copper, Cobalt, Kyanite	Past Producer	Bornite, Chalcopyrite, Cobaltite, Sillimanite
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Troy Sillimanite Co. Prospect	Kyanite, Copper	Occurrence	Metamorphic
Troy Sillimanite Occurrences	Kyanite	Occurrence	Metamorphic
Wild Rose Limestone	Limestone, General	Occurrence	Limestone

Every working 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

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
Kendrick Fraternal Temple	3.6 miles	2013
Thomas Kirby House	3.6 miles	1999
Kendrick Downtown Historic District	3.7 miles	2018
Sperry Bridge	3.9 miles	2024
Cox Barn	5.8 miles	2010
Bank of Juliaetta	7.2 miles	1998

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 79000798 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.