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Photograph of Ross Fork Episcopal Church
Photograph by Pilleyk, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Ross Fork Episcopal Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

From the record

“Ross Fork Episcopal Church is a historic church on Mission Road in Fort Hall, Idaho, in the Fort Hall Reservation. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.”

Wikipedia article Ross Fork Episcopal Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 17 National Register listings published here for Bingham County · listed in 1983 · 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. Mission Rd., Fort Hall, 83221
  • When was it listed? January 1983
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Tourtellotte and Hummel Architecture TR
  • Census division. Blackfoot
  • Architectural style. Gothic Revival
  • Architect. John E. Tourtellotte
  • National Register reference number. 83000277 - 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

28 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Ross Fork Episcopal Church between 1993 and 2020, burning about 146 acres in total. 6 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/undetermined13
Natural6
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Recreation and ceremony2
Debris and open burning2
Equipment and vehicle use1
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 2020Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreBingham CountyBINGHAM COUNTY ASSIST 8
7 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresFort Hall AgencyFORT HALL ASSIST 4
4 September 2008Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFort Hall AgencyFT HALL ASST 12
4 September 2008Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFort Hall AgencyFT HALL ASST 11
4 September 2008Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFort Hall AgencyFT HALL ASST 10
27 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreIdaho Falls DistrictBINGHAM COUNTY ASSIST 10
23 September 1993Debris and open burning10 acresIdaho Falls DistrictDIVERSION
2 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresFort Hall AgencyFT. HALLS ASSIST 3

Every fire recorded in Bingham County

Mines and quarries near this property

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Ross Fork Episcopal Church: 4 past producers, 4 producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold, Platinum, Titanium. 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
Welch Ground, and Gold Point and Eagle BendGold, Platinum, TitaniumProducer1865
Snake River PlacerGoldPast Producer
Blackfoot Pit and PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Miller PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Bingham County

Storms near this property

2 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fort Hall, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports in 1995: 1 tornado, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 1995Tornado (F0)Fort Hall$50,000A series of tornados touch down in Bingham County causing damage to mobile homes, highway signs, and recreational equipment.
September 1995HailFort Hall-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Bingham 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
J. W. Jones Buildingunder 500 feet1982
Standrod Bankunder 500 feet1979
Blackfoot I.O.O.F. Hallunder 500 feet1979
Blackfoot Railway Depotunder 500 feet1974
Nuart Theaterunder 500 feet1978
Idaho Republican Buildingunder 500 feet1979

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 83000277 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Bingham CountyAll 17 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.