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West Point Grade School

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

From the record

“The West Point Grade School is a historic former school on East 3300 South in the village of West Point in Gooding County near Wendell, Idaho. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.”

Wikipedia article West Point Grade School, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 13 National Register listings published here for Gooding 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. Off I-86, Wendell, 83355
  • When was it listed? November 1982
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Tourtellotte and Hummel Architecture TR
  • Census division. Wendell
  • Architect. Tourtellotte & Hummel
  • National Register reference number. 82000350 - 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

24 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of West Point Grade School between 1994 and 2018, burning about 1,084 acres in total. 4 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
Equipment and vehicle use6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Debris and open burning5
Natural4
Fireworks2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
7 September 2008Equipment and vehicle use37 acresTwin Falls DistrictMAGIC WATERS
7 September 2001Equipment and vehicle use577 acresHagerman National Fish HatcheryOSTER
9 August 2006Debris and open burning30 acresTwin Falls DistrictBOX
8 August 1997Debris and open burning80 acresHagerman National Fish HatcheryMGS
3 August 2005Debris and open burning3.0 acresTwin Falls DistrictBICKEL
12 August 2003Fireworks5.0 acresIdaho Falls DistrictBOX CANYON
31 July 1997Equipment and vehicle use8.0 acresHagerman National Fish HatcheryWILLIAMS
29 July 1997Natural44 acresBoise DistrictMAGICWATER

Every fire recorded in Gooding County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 16 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of West Point Grade School: 7 past producers, 6 occurrences, 2 producers, 1 prospect. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Geothermal, Gold, Diatomite. 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
BanburyDiatomite, Sand and Gravel, Construction, ClayProspect
Snake River PlacersGold, Iron, ChromiumPast Producer1862
Snake River PlacersGold, Chromium, IronPast Producer1862
State Pit Tf 79StoneProducer
Unnamed LocationClayOccurrence
Ray Banbury Diatomite DepositDiatomiteOccurrenceSedimentary
Geothermal LocationGeothermalOccurrence
Miracle Hot SpringGeothermalOccurrence
Unnamed Hot SpringsGeothermalOccurrence
Unnamed Hot SpringsGeothermalOccurrence

Every working recorded in Gooding County

Storms near this property

6 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wendell, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 2013 and 2022: 3 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood. 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 2022FloodWendell-The driveway was flooded and marble size hail was spotted on the patio.
June 2022HailWendell-A trained spotter reported hail of 1.25 inches near Hagerman, ID.
October 2019Thunderstorm WindWendell-Four power line poles were reported down on a county road.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindWendell-Social and local media reported trees down and over 1000 without power.
August 2014HailWendell-A trained spotter reported quarter sized hail.
August 2013HailWendell-Local media reported penny to nickel sized hail around the Wendell, Idaho area.

Every storm recorded in Gooding 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

2 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
Owsley Bridge5.6 miles1998
James Henry and Ida Owen Mays House6.4 miles1993

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 82000350 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Gooding CountyAll 13 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.