St. Joseph's Catholic Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

From the record

One of 58 National Register listings published here for Latah County · listed in 1982 · category: Building.

Sources: 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. 1st and Cedar, Bovill, 83806
When was it listed? November 1982
Category. building
Also known as. Tourtellotte and Hummel Architecture TR
Census division. Deary-Bovill
Architect. Tourtellotte & Hummel
National Register reference number. 82000351 - 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

44 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 44 fires within 5 miles of St. Joseph's Catholic Church between 1992 and 2020, burning about 23 acres in total. 26 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	26
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Debris and open burning	4
Recreation and ceremony	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
9 September 2013	Natural	under an acre	Idaho Department of Lands	HUNTER
8 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Clearwater Potlatch Timber Protective Association	RUBY CREEK POWERLINE
7 September 2013	Natural	under an acre	Idaho Department of Lands	JACKSON MOUNTAIN
7 September 1995	Natural	under an acre	Idaho Department of Lands	BOVILL HIGHWAY
3 September 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Idaho Department of Lands	MARKER 38 PL
28 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Idaho Department of Lands	FORKS
27 September 2019	Natural	under an acre	Idaho Department of Lands	FORKS
25 September 2007	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Idaho Department of Lands	FORKS

Every fire recorded in Latah County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of St. Joseph's Catholic Church: 6 producers, 4 occurrences, 3 past producers. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Kaolin, Stone, Silica. 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
Bobs Creek Mica Occurrence	Mica	Occurrence
Bovill Clay Deposit	Water, Free, Titanium, Silica, Iron, Aluminum	Past Producer	1943, 1961
Gold Hunter Prospect	Lead, Gold, Zinc	Occurrence
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Helmer Clay Deposit	Kaolin, Silica	Producer	1956
Miclasil Mine and Mill	Clay	Producer
Sherwin Garnet Placer	Garnet	Occurrence	Placer
Bouill Rock Quarry	Stone	Producer
Deary Pit	Stone	Producer
Moose Creek Clay Mine	Kaolin	Producer

Every working recorded in Latah County

Storms near this property

1 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bovill, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 1995: 1 hail. 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
September 1995	Hail	Bovill	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Latah 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

3 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
Hotel Bovill	0.2 miles	1994
Bovill Opera House	0.2 miles	2010
Russell Lawrence Farmstead	6.0 miles	2011

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 82000351 in Record Group 79.
Latah County	All 58 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.