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Wallace Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

From the record

“The Wallace Historic District, which is roughly bounded by Oak, Silver, C, Mullan, Canyon, Fir, and 1st Sts. in Wallace in Shoshone County, Idaho, is a historic district. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.”

Wikipedia article Wallace Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 27 National Register listings published here for Shoshone County · listed in 1979 · category: District.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • Address. Roughly bounded by Pine, Bank, 5th and 7th Sts., Wallace, 83873
  • When was it listed? August 1979
  • Category. district
  • Census division. Osburn-Wallace
  • National Register reference number. 79000809 - 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

62 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 62 fires within 5 miles of Wallace Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 36 acres in total. 28 started naturally. 2 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
Natural28
Recreation and ceremony11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Fireworks2
Arson/incendiarism2
Debris and open burning2
Smoking1
Equipment and vehicle use1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 2006Naturalunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsLOST LAKE
7 September 1995Naturalunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsBAD TOM MTN
7 September 1995Naturalunder an acreCoeur d'Alene Field OfficeROCK CREEK
6 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIdaho Panhandle National ForestDUDLEY
6 September 1995Naturalunder an acreIdaho Panhandle National ForestBAD TOM
5 September 2013Naturalunder an acreIdaho Panhandle National ForestDUDLEY
26 September 2020Fireworksunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsMOUNT PULASKI
2 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.2 acresIdaho Department of LandsNUCKOLS GULCH

Every fire recorded in Shoshone County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 154 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 154 workings within 5 miles of Wallace Historic District: 50 occurrences, 47 past producers, 32 prospects, 18 producers. 18 still produce. What was taken out: Silver, Silver, Lead, Lead, Zinc, Lead. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
ArgentineSilver, Lead, Gold, CopperPast Producer
Bonanza Gold ProspectSilver, GoldProspectVein
Caladay MineSilver, Copper, Zinc, LeadOccurrence
Caladay MineSilver, Copper, GoldProducer1969
Castle Rock MineCopper, Gold, SilverPast Producer
Coeur D'Alene DistrictGold, Zinc, Antimony, Lead, Silver, Copper, CadmiumProducer1878, 1884
Coeur D'Alene MinesCopper, Silver, Lead, Gold, Uranium, CobaltProducerVein
Coeur MineSilver, Antimony, Copper, Zinc, Lead, GoldPast Producer1885, 1892, 1998
East Coeur D'Alene DistrictZinc, Lead, Copper, SilverOccurrence
Galena MineSilver, Zinc, Lead, Copper, Gold, Antimony, UraniumProducer1885, 1922

Every working recorded in Shoshone County

Storms near this property

3 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wallace, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 2000 and 2006: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2002FloodWallace$15,000no account filed
May 2006Thunderstorm WindWallace$2,000no account filed
January 2000Thunderstorm WindWallace-Quarter size hail

Every storm recorded in Shoshone 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Northern Pacific Railway Depotunder 500 feet1976
Wallace Historic District (Boundary Increase)under 500 feet1983
Wallace Carnegie Library0.2 miles1981
US Post Office-Wallace Main0.2 miles1989
Wallace 1910 Fire Memorial1.1 miles1984
Nine Mile Cemetery1.2 miles2025

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 79000809 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Shoshone CountyAll 27 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.