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Beck Barns and Automobile Storage

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

From the record

“Beck Barns and Automobile Storage, on Center St. in Paris, Idaho, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. The listing included four contributing buildings.”

Wikipedia article Beck Barns and Automobile Storage, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 92 National Register listings published here for Bear Lake County · listed in 1982 · 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 4 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. Center St., Paris, 83261
  • When was it listed? November 1982
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Paris MRA
  • Census division. Paris
  • National Register reference number. 82000263 - 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

8 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Beck Barns and Automobile Storage between 2003 and 2019, burning about 507 acres in total. 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Natural2
Debris and open burning1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
4 September 2017Equipment and vehicle use148 acresIdaho Falls DistrictLITTLE VALLEY
22 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresIdaho Falls DistrictLITTLEVALL
4 August 2014Naturalunder an acreIdaho Falls DistrictGRANDY HOLLOW
24 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined94 acresIdaho Falls DistrictDINGLE
2 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined211 acresIdaho Falls DistrictWORM CREEK
17 August 2015Natural27 acresBear Lake National Wildlife RefugeREFUGE
26 July 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreBear Lake National Wildlife RefugeTOUR ROUTE
4 October 2019Debris and open burning12 acresBear Lake National Wildlife RefugeCARP

Every fire recorded in Bear Lake 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 Beck Barns and Automobile Storage: 6 occurrences, 3 past producers, 1 prospect, 1 unknown. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Phosphorus-Phosphates, Manganese, Lead, Vanadium. 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
Berrett and Ricks ProspectLead, CopperOccurrenceCerussite, Galena
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Paris PeakLimestone, GeneralProducer
Paris-BloomingtonPhosphorus-Phosphates, Vanadium, Uranium, Zinc, Thallium, Silver, Selenium, REE, Cadmium, Fluorine-FluoritePast Producer1917
Bear Lake MinePhosphorus-Phosphates, VanadiumPast Producer
Spence GroupLeadOccurrenceReplacement
Manganese DepositManganeseOccurrence
Unnamed Manganese OccurrenceManganeseOccurrence
Welker ProspectManganeseProspect
McIlwee MinePhosphorus-PhosphatesUnknown

Every working recorded in Bear Lake County

Storms near this property

1 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Paris, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2010: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2010Thunderstorm WindParis$1,200Power pole snapped by thunderstorm wind causing power outage.

Every storm recorded in Bear Lake 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
Paris Photo Studiounder 500 feet1982
Browning Blockunder 500 feet1982
Telephone Company Bungalowunder 500 feet1982
Old LDS Tithing/Paris Post Buildingunder 500 feet1982
Preston Bungalowunder 500 feet1983
Pendrey Drug Store Buildingunder 500 feet1982

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 82000263 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Bear Lake CountyAll 92 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.