BlockFrom the record
One of 8 National Register listings published here for Oneida County · listed in 1979 · category: District.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Samaria Historic District
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.
The listing
- Address. Roughly bounded by Main and 3rd Sts., 1st Ave., N. and S end of 2nd St., Samaria, 83252
- When was it listed? June 1979
- Category. district
- Census division. Malad City
- National Register reference number. 79003740 - 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
14 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Samaria Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,573 acres in total. 12 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 12 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 August 1998 | Natural | under an acre | Caribou-Targhee National Forest | TORO |
| 5 August 2010 | Natural | under an acre | Idaho Falls District | SQUIRREL TOWN |
| 30 August 1992 | Natural | 115 acres | Idaho Falls District | MADSEN |
| 17 August 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | 687 acres | Idaho Falls District | NORTH CNYN |
| 10 August 1995 | Natural | under an acre | Idaho Falls District | SAMARIA |
| 1 August 1996 | Natural | 4.0 acres | Idaho Falls District | SAMARIA#2 |
| 1 August 1996 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Idaho Falls District | SAMARIA #1 |
| 9 July 2018 | Natural | 9.9 acres | Idaho Falls District | GARDNER |
Mines and quarries near this property
6 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Samaria Historic District: 5 past producers, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Geothermal. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Borrow Pit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Pleasantview Warm Spring | Geothermal | Occurrence | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
2 since 2003Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Samaria, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 2003 and 2020: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2003 | Thunderstorm Wind | Samaria | $1,000 | no account filed |
| April 2020 | Funnel Cloud | Samaria | - | A funnel cloud photographed in Samaria. |
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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Malad Second Ward Tabernacle | 6.7 miles | 1979 |
 | Co-Op Block and J. N. Ireland Bank | 6.8 miles | 1979 |
 | United Presbyterian Church | 6.9 miles | 1979 |
 | Oneida County Courthouse | 6.9 miles | 1987 |
 | D. L. Evans Sr. Bungalow | 7.0 miles | 1979 |
 | Jedd Jones House | 7.1 miles | 1979 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 79003740 in Record Group 79. |
| Oneida County | All 8 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.