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Photograph of Long Valley Finnish Church
Photograph by PKOSKIE, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Long Valley Finnish Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

From the record

“Long Valley Finnish Church is a church constructed to meet the needs of Finnish immigrants to the United States, located in Valley County, Idaho. The church was added to the National Register or Historic Places on May 27, 1980.”

Wikipedia article Long Valley Finnish Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 25 National Register listings published here for Valley County · listed in 1980 · 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 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. SE of Lake Fork, Lake Fork, 83638
  • When was it listed? May 1980
  • Category. building
  • Census division. McCall
  • National Register reference number. 80001336 - 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

71 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 71 fires within 5 miles of Long Valley Finnish Church between 1992 and 2017, burning about 74 acres in total. 31 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
Natural31
Debris and open burning17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Recreation and ceremony7
Equipment and vehicle use5
Smoking2

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 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsJUGHANDLE 60
7 September 2006Naturalunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsJUGHANDLE
7 September 1998Naturalunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsLOUIE CREEK
5 September 1997Naturalunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsSOUTH JUG
4 September 2013Naturalunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsPADDY
3 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIdaho Department of LandsWALK
3 September 1994Naturalunder an acrePayette National ForestCAMP CREEK #2
3 September 1994Naturalunder an acrePayette National ForestJUG 2

Every fire recorded in Valley County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Long Valley Finnish Church: 4 occurrences, 3 past producers, 3 prospects, 1 unknown. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Quartz, Sand and Gravel, Construction, REE, Niobium (Columbium), Tantalum. 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
Boulder Creek PlacerTitaniumProspect
Jacobs PropertySilicaOccurrenceVein
Lake Fork CreekREE, Zirconium, Iron, Titanium, GarnetUnknown
Paddy Flat Placer DepositREE, Niobium (Columbium), TantalumOccurrencePlacer
Lake Fork County PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Lake Fork PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Paddy Flat Placer DepositREEOccurrence
Valley RockSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Goodenough ProspectQuartzOccurrence1943
Goodenough ProspectQuartzProspect

Every working recorded in Valley 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
Matt Ruatsale Homestead0.7 miles1982
Thomas Jarvi Homestead2.0 miles1982
Jacob Maki Homestead2.6 miles1982
Johnson, John S., (Sampila) Homestead3.1 miles1982
Gust Laituri Homestead3.4 miles1982
Johnson, John G., (Rintakangas) Homestead3.4 miles1982

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 80001336 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Valley CountyAll 25 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.