Magee Ranger Station

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1981.

From the record

One of 27 National Register listings published here for Shoshone County · listed in 1981 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. W of Pritchard, Pritchard
When was it listed? February 1981
Category. district
Census division. Murray
National Register reference number. 81000208 - 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

61 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 61 fires within 5 miles of Magee Ranger Station between 1992 and 2020, burning about 8,627 acres in total. 58 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
Natural	58
Recreation and ceremony	3

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
8 September 1997	Natural	under an acre	Idaho Panhandle National Forest	BLACKIE #18
30 September 1996	Natural	1.5 acres	Idaho Panhandle National Forest	IMP CREEK
28 September 2005	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Idaho Panhandle National Forest	SPYGLASS
14 September 1996	Natural	under an acre	Idaho Panhandle National Forest	HAWKINS
1 September 2007	Natural	under an acre	Idaho Panhandle National Forest	SUBURBAN
1 September 2007	Natural	under an acre	Idaho Panhandle National Forest	STONY BRUSH
1 September 1996	Natural	under an acre	Idaho Panhandle National Forest	COOLWATER #2
9 August 2003	Natural	under an acre	Idaho Panhandle National Forest	FLAT STONE

Every fire recorded in Shoshone County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Magee Ranger Station: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Copper, Silver, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
	Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
	Rock City Mine	Copper, Silver	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Shoshone 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 81000208 in Record Group 79.
Shoshone County	All 27 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.