Matt Ruatsale Homestead

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

From the record

“The Matt Ruatsale Homestead in Valley County, Idaho, in the vicinity of Lake Fork, Idaho, was built in c.1915. The house was moved to its present location from the Ruatsale homestead site sometime prior to it being listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.”
Wikipedia article Matt Ruatsale Homestead, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 25 National Register listings published here for Valley 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.
Listed as. Ruatsale, Matt, Homestead - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. N of Kantola Lane, Lake Fork, 83638
When was it listed? November 1982
Category. building
Also known as. Long Valley Finnish Structures TR
Census division. McCall
National Register reference number. 82000371 - 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

82 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 82 fires within 5 miles of Matt Ruatsale Homestead between 1992 and 2018, burning about 75 acres in total. 35 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	35
Debris and open burning	18
Recreation and ceremony	11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Smoking	2
Fireworks	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 2008	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Idaho Department of Lands	JUGHANDLE 60
7 September 2006	Natural	under an acre	Idaho Department of Lands	JUGHANDLE
7 September 1998	Natural	under an acre	Idaho Department of Lands	LOUIE CREEK
5 September 1997	Natural	under an acre	Idaho Department of Lands	SOUTH JUG
4 September 2013	Natural	under an acre	Idaho Department of Lands	PADDY
3 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Idaho Department of Lands	WALK
3 September 1994	Natural	under an acre	Payette National Forest	CAMP CREEK #2
3 September 1994	Natural	under an acre	Payette National Forest	JUG 2

Every fire recorded in Valley 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 Matt Ruatsale Homestead: 4 occurrences, 3 past producers, 3 prospects, 1 unknown. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Quartz, Sand and Gravel, Construction, REE, Niobium (Columbium), Tantalum. 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
Boulder Creek Placer	Titanium	Prospect
Jacobs Property	Silica	Occurrence	Vein
Lake Fork Creek	REE, Zirconium, Iron, Titanium, Garnet	Unknown
Paddy Flat Placer Deposit	REE, Niobium (Columbium), Tantalum	Occurrence	Placer
Lake Fork County Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Lake Fork Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Paddy Flat Placer Deposit	REE	Occurrence
Valley Rock	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Goodenough Prospect	Quartz	Occurrence	1943
Goodenough Prospect	Quartz	Prospect

Every working recorded in Valley 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
Long Valley Finnish Church	0.7 miles	1980
Thomas Jarvi Homestead	1.7 miles	1982
Johnson, John S., (Sampila) Homestead	2.4 miles	1982
Jacob Maki Homestead	2.6 miles	1982
Johnson, John G., (Rintakangas) Homestead	2.7 miles	1982
Gust Laituri Homestead	2.8 miles	1982

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 82000371 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Valley County	All 25 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.