Rice Meetinghouse

Built in 1928. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

From the record

“The Rice Meetinghouse, in Valley County, Idaho northeast of McCall, Idaho, was built in 1928 for the Idaho Conference of Congregational Churches. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.”
Wikipedia article Rice Meetinghouse, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 25 National Register listings published here for Valley County · listed in 1980 · category: Building · built in 1928.

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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. NE of McCall, McCall, 83638
When was it listed? April 1980
Category. building
Census division. McCall
When was it built? 1928
National Register reference number. 80001337 - 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

182 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 182 fires within 5 miles of Rice Meetinghouse between 1992 and 2020, burning about 57,962 acres in total. 47 started naturally. 16 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
Recreation and ceremony	72
Natural	47
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	18
Arson/incendiarism	16
Debris and open burning	11
Smoking	11
Fireworks	3
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	2

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 September 1996	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Payette National Forest	WAGON
7 September 2020	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Idaho Department of Lands	DUSTON
7 September 2005	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Idaho Department of Lands	FALL CREEK
6 September 1998	Natural	under an acre	Idaho Department of Lands	YOCKWAH
5 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Idaho Department of Lands	STUMP
5 September 1999	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Idaho Department of Lands	FLOATING TREE
4 September 2007	Natural	under an acre	Idaho Department of Lands	GRUMPY
30 September 2001	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Payette National Forest	ANTHILL

Every fire recorded in Valley County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Rice Meetinghouse: 2 past producers, 1 producer, 1 occurrence. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Graphite. 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
Graphite Group Prospect	Graphite	Occurrence
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Long Valley S & G Pit & Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Valley County

Storms near this property

2 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names McCall, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 1995 and 1996: 1 hail, 1 heavy rain. 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
July 1995	Hail	McCall	-	Early morning severe thunderstorms produced strong gusty winds and hail.
July 1996	Heavy Rain	Mccall	-	no account filed

Every storm 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Southern Idaho Timber Protective Association (SITPA) Buildings	2.5 miles	1990
Johnson Flying Service Hangar	2.8 miles	2019
Elo School	3.0 miles	1982
Charles Koski Homestead	3.1 miles	1982
Payette Lakes Club	3.1 miles	2017
Nickolai Wargelin Homestead	3.1 miles	1982

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 80001337 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Valley County	All 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.
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.