New Plymouth Congregational Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

From the record

“The New Plymouth Congregational Church is a historic church on Southwest Avenue between West Park and Plymouth in New Plymouth, Idaho. It was built in 1920 and was added to the National Register in 1982.”
Wikipedia article New Plymouth Congregational Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 15 National Register listings published here for Payette 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. Southwest Ave. between West Park and Plymouth, New Plymouth, 83655
When was it listed? November 1982
Category. building
Also known as. Tourtellotte and Hummel Architecture TR
Census division. New Plymouth
Architectural style. Neoclassical architecture
Architect. Tourtellotte & Hummel
National Register reference number. 82000359 - 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 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of New Plymouth Congregational Church between 1992 and 2018, burning about 167 acres in total. None 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 use	5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
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
20 September 1992	Recreation and ceremony	3.0 acres	Boise District	I-84 MP 7
2 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	9.0 acres	Boise District	I84 3TA9
12 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Boise District	I 84 MP 6
5 August 2001	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Boise District	MP9I84
30 July 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Boise District	MP 10 I-84
15 July 2014	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Boise District	MM9 I84
30 June 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Boise District	RA4 PAYETTE CO
26 June 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	151 acres	Boise District	I84 MP6

Every fire recorded in Payette 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 New Plymouth Congregational Church: 2 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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	Prospect
	Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Prospect

Every working recorded in Payette County

Storms near this property

14 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names New Plymouth, the town this property stands in, in 14 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 6 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 2 heavy rain, 1 tornado. The reports record 3 injuries. 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 2024	Hail	New Plymouth	3 hurt	Hail from a storm that was approximately one inch in diameter accumulated three inches deep on I-84 near Exit 9 and caused slick roads and 2 car accidents.
May 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	New Plymouth	$5,000	no account filed
May 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	New Plymouth	$5,000	no account filed
July 1995	Hail	New Plymouth	$5,000	no account filed
March 2017	Flood	New Plymouth	$2,000	Flooding occurred along the Payette River around the Payette, Idaho area and surrounding fields and roads.
June 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	New Plymouth	-	A large diameter branch fell on a powerline and started a house fire, causing significant damage to the structure.
July 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	New Plymouth	-	A metal roof was blown off a home in New Plymouth, ID.
March 2023	Heavy Rain	New Plymouth	-	The mesonet station DW6457 near New Plymouth, ID measured 0.87 inches of heavy rain.
June 2022	Heavy Rain	New Plymouth	-	The Mesonet station, DW6457, near New Plymouth measured 1.11 inches of total rainfall.
August 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	New Plymouth	-	Social media posted pictures of utility poles snapped in half near New Plymouth. National Weather Service radar indicated outflow thunderstorm winds were around 50 knots.
August 2004	Tornado (F0)	New Plymouth	-	Near Sand Hollow, Payette, Gem county line. No damaged reported.
July 2003	Hail	New Plymouth	-	Wind gusts to 44 knots taking shingles off buildings.
June 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	New Plymouth	-	no account filed
July 1995	Hail	New Plymouth	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Payette 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 82000359 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Payette County	All 15 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.