Paris Public School

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

From the record

“The Paris Public School, at Main and 1st Sts., North, in Paris, Idaho, is a historic school that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Watkins in Prairie School style and was built in 1918.”
Wikipedia article Paris Public School, 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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. Main and 1st Sts., North, Paris, 83261
When was it listed? November 1982
Category. building
Also known as. Paris MRA
Census division. Paris
Architectural style. Prairie School architecture
Architect. Richard C. Watkins
National Register reference number. 82000290 - 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

9 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Paris Public School between 2003 and 2019, burning about 519 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/undetermined	5
Natural	2
Debris and open burning	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1

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
4 September 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	148 acres	Idaho Falls District	LITTLE VALLEY
22 September 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15 acres	Idaho Falls District	LITTLEVALL
2 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12 acres	Idaho Falls District	MILL CANYON
4 August 2014	Natural	under an acre	Idaho Falls District	GRANDY HOLLOW
24 August 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	94 acres	Idaho Falls District	DINGLE
2 August 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	211 acres	Idaho Falls District	WORM CREEK
17 August 2015	Natural	27 acres	Bear Lake National Wildlife Refuge	REFUGE
26 July 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Bear Lake National Wildlife Refuge	TOUR ROUTE

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 Paris Public School: 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Berrett and Ricks Prospect	Lead, Copper	Occurrence	Cerussite, Galena
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Paris Peak	Limestone, General	Producer
Paris-Bloomington	Phosphorus-Phosphates, Vanadium, Uranium, Zinc, Thallium, Silver, Selenium, REE, Cadmium, Fluorine-Fluorite	Past Producer	1917
Bear Lake Mine	Phosphorus-Phosphates, Vanadium	Past Producer
Spence Group	Lead	Occurrence	Replacement
Manganese Deposit	Manganese	Occurrence
Unnamed Manganese Occurrence	Manganese	Occurrence
Welker Prospect	Manganese	Prospect
McIlwee Mine	Phosphorus-Phosphates	Unknown

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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Paris	$1,200	Power 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Taylor's Candy Factory	under 500 feet	1983
Joe and Zina Pendrey Bungalow	under 500 feet	1983
Joe Price House	under 500 feet	1982
Bear Lake County Courthouse	0.1 miles	1977
Shepherd Bungalow	0.1 miles	1983
Julia Budge House	0.1 miles	1982

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 82000290 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Bear Lake County	All 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.