Oakley Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

From the record

One of 7 National Register listings published here for Cassia County · listed in 1980 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Main St. and Wilson Ave., Oakley, 83346
When was it listed? November 1980
Category. district
Census division. Oakley
National Register reference number. 80001299 - 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

16 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Oakley Historic District between 1996 and 2019, burning about 3,087 acres in total. 10 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	10
Firearms and explosives use	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
2 September 2007	Natural	2,300 acres	Idaho Falls District	MIDDLE MOUNTAIN
7 August 2018	Arson/incendiarism	182 acres	Idaho Falls District	OAKLEY RESERVOIR
6 August 2009	Natural	under an acre	Idaho Falls District	LITTLE COTTONWOOD
5 August 2012	Natural	69 acres	Idaho Falls District	OAKLEY RESERVOIR
4 August 2019	Natural	89 acres	Idaho Falls District	BOSTETTER
3 August 2001	Power generation/transmission/distribution	1.0 acres	Twin Falls District	WESTBIRCH
26 August 2010	Firearms and explosives use	under an acre	Idaho Falls District	3 DOG FIRE
20 August 2011	Natural	under an acre	Idaho Falls District	BOSTETTER

Every fire recorded in Cassia County

Mines and quarries near this property

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Oakley Historic District: 3 occurrences, 3 unknowns, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Geothermal, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Pumice, Stone. 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
Brick and Tile Clay Deposit	Clay	Unknown
Pumicite Occurrence	Pumice	Occurrence
Rocky Mtn. Quarry	Stone	Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Oakley Warm Springs	Geothermal	Occurrence
Oakley Warm Springs	Geothermal	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Cassia County

Storms near this property

24 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Oakley, the town this property stands in, in 24 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 9 flash flood, 6 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning. 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 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Oakley	$43,000	no account filed
September 2013	Flash Flood	Oakley	$6,000	Flash flooding occurred in the south foothills of Oakley. Heavy rain over a burn area caused water, debris and mud to flood one basement and several outlying buildings and potato cellars near the Mountain Meadows Ranch. The flow over burn areas brought ash into the debris and a foot of water and silt entered many ranch buildings and one basement.
September 2013	Flash Flood	Oakley	$4,000	Radar indicated about 2 to 3 inches of rainfall in southern Cassia County near Utah border. Birch Creek and Goose Creek roads flooded in the Oakley area and Lynn Road in Almo flooded and washed out. The roads were strewn with debris, branches and trees.
July 2004	Flash Flood	Oakley	$3,000	no account filed
August 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Oakley	$1,000	no account filed
July 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Oakley	-	A 59 mph thunderstorm outflow wind measured at the Cotton Ridge RAWS site.
May 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Oakley	-	Idaho Power reported 100 customers without power due to thunderstorm winds south of Oakley.
July 2021	Flash Flood	Oakley	-	Flooding along Trapper Creek Road with excessive runoff from Squaw Creek and Little Squaw Creek drainages. Several inches of rocks, mud and debris on the roadway.
July 2021	Flash Flood	Oakley	-	The US Forest Service reported Trapper Creek Road washed out in the area of FS Road 538 to Trout Creek Pass. A 12 foot deep gully was running down the center of the road. This was due to excessive runoff from the burned canyon walls from the Badger Fire burn scar.
May 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Oakley	-	A 57 mph wind gust measured at Cotton Ridge RAWS site.
May 2015	Funnel Cloud	Oakley	-	Funnel cloud photographed in Oakley.
July 2001	Flash Flood	Oakley	-	Radar indicated 1.5 inches of rain in less than an hour fell in southern Cassia county causing flooding on Birch Creek Road.
June 1997	Heavy Rain	Oakley	-	0.70 inch of rain in 15 minutes.
June 1997	Flash Flood	Oakley	-	Water flooded across Goose Creek Road for 1/8 mile stretch. Hail up to 3/8 inch diameter also observed.
May 2005	Hail	Oakley	-	no account filed
May 2005	Hail	Oakley	-	no account filed
July 2004	Hail	Oakley	-	no account filed
July 2004	Hail	Oakley	-	no account filed
July 2004	Flash Flood	Oakley	-	no account filed
June 2004	Hail	Oakley	-	no account filed
August 2004	Flash Flood	Oakley	-	no account filed
July 2001	Hail	Oakley	-	no account filed
June 1996	Lightning	Oakley	-	no account filed
September 1996	Wildfire	Oakley	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cassia 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 80001299 in Record Group 79.
Cassia County	All 7 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.