Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.
From the record
“The First Presbyterian Church at Locust and 1st Street, East in Lapwai, Idaho is a historic Presbyterian church built in 1909. It was added to the National Register in 1980.”
Wikipedia article First Presbyterian Church (Lapwai, Idaho), CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 28 National Register listings published here for Nez Perce County · listed in 1980 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.80001332- 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
275 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 275 fires within 5 miles of First Presbyterian Church
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 10,794 acres in total. 14 started naturally. 6 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
Fireworks
94
Debris and open burning
41
Equipment and vehicle use
37
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
29
Smoking
16
Natural
14
Power generation/transmission/distribution
10
Other causes
9
Misuse of fire by a minor
8
Recreation and ceremony
8
Arson/incendiarism
6
Railroad operations and maintenance
3
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
5 workings within 5 miles of First Presbyterian Church: 5 producers.
All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Lapwai, the town this property stands in, in 12 storm reports between 1998 and 2022: 4 flood, 3 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 2 flash flood.
The reports record 1 injury. 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.
A slow moving thunderstorm moved 2 miles east of the town of Lapwai on the afternoon of the 8th of May. An estimated 2 to 3 inches fell across the headwaters of Garden Gulch Creek in about an hour. A flash flood then raced through Garden Gulch and flooded out structures, killed some livestock and washed out roads to the intersection of State Route 95 and Garden Gulch Road. An estimated 4 million dollars in property and roads was estimated in a five mile swath along Garden Gulch.
Flooding of several creeks and streams resulted in damage, closures, and evacuations along numerous roads along with minor flooding of six homes. Roads that were damaged include Webb Road, McCormack Ridge Road, Garden Gulch Road near Highway 95, Cottonwood Creek Road, Flatiron Road, and Mission Creek Road near Highway 95. Reservation Line Road and Webb Canal Road were also closed for a short time due to flooding. The worst of the flooding occurred along Webb Creek which flooded several low-lying areas, including the junction with Highway 95 and the junction with McCormick Ridge Road where reports stated water covered the bridge at the junction of McCormick Ridge Road. The Web Store Smoke Shop was inundated with approximately one foot of water. Around six homes along Webb Road experienced flooding up to the homes foundations. Mission Creek also spilled out of its banks with water reported to be flowing down Mission Creek Road, over the Mission Creek Bridge, and into nearby pastures and front yards. Sweetwater Creek, Lapwai Creek and Cottonwood Creek also had minor flooding with the Spalding church suffering the greatest damage. A culvert was plugged along Lapwai Creek near the intersection of Highway 95 and Garden Gulch Road causing road damage and a two day road closure. A plugged culvert along Sweetwater Creek led to approximately 30 feet of pavement erosion along Flatiron Road and 1500 feet of ditch and shoulder erosion. The Emergency Manager of Nez Perce County estimated flood damage to the roads was around $74,000 with most of the damage along Flatiron Road and Garden Gulch Road near Highway 95. On the Nez Perce Indian Reservation, at least one septic tank was compromised due to flooding. The flooding caused basement flooding in at least four homes throughout the reservation. Two private bridges were destroyed or compromised and classified as unsafe for use.
Lapwai Creek flooded bottom lands and flowed over Highway 95 in places between Lapwai and Culdesac causing the temporary closure of this primary route through the region. A few homes were threatened by the flood waters but no damage to any structures was reported.
Thunderstorm winds blew down large tree branches southwest of Lapwai and blew down road signs near Culdesac. This thunderstorm also stirred up large amounts of blowing dust which reduced visibility to near zero at times.
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
1 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.
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.
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